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Bibliography
This is where you will compile the bibliography for your Wikipedia assignment.
- [Cuthbert, K. (2017). You Have to be Normal to be Abnormal: An Empirically Grounded Exploration of the Intersection of Asexuality and Disability. Sociology, 51(2), 241–257. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26558628.]
- [Emens, E. F. (2014). Compulsory Sexuality. Stanford Law Review, 66(2), 303–386. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24246965.]
- [Elizabeth F. Emens, Compulsory Sexuality, 66 Stan. L. Rev. 303 (2014). Available at: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/718.]
- [Hiramori, D., & Kamano, S. (2020, March 13). Understanding Sexual Orientation Identity, Sexual/Romantic Attraction, and Sexual Behavior beyond Western Societies: The Case of Japan. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/ds8at.]
- [Antonsen, A.N., Zdaniuk, B., Yule, M. et al. Ace and Aro: Understanding Differences in Romantic Attractions Among Persons Identifying as Asexual. Arch Sex Behav 49, 1615- 1630 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-019-01600-1.]
- [Rothblum, Esther D, et al. “Asexual and Non-Asexual Respondents from a U.S. Population- Based Study of Sexual Minorities.” Archives of Sexual Behavior, U.S. National Library of Medicine, Feb. 2020, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7059692/.]
- [Shepherd, Carol Anne. “Bisexual Christians & Mental Health:” University of Winchester, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 27 Aug. 2017, https://winchester.elsevierpure.com/en/studentTheses/bisexual-christians-mental-health.]
- [Storms, Michael D. “Theories of Sexual Orientation.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, vol. 38, no. 5, 1980, pp. 783–792., https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.38.5.783.]
