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Oral Contraceptives and Sexual Desire: Replies to Graham and Bancroft (2013) and Puts and Pope (2013)

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Acknowledgments

SCR is supported by a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship. JH and KK are supported by the Charles University Research Centre UNCE 204004, and KK is also supported by the grant GACR P407/12/P819.

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  1. School of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA, UK

    S. Craig Roberts

  2. Department of Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Kelly D. Cobey

  3. Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

    Kateřina Klapilová

  4. Department of Zoology, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

    Jan Havlíček

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Roberts, S.C., Cobey, K.D., Klapilová, K. et al. Oral Contraceptives and Sexual Desire: Replies to Graham and Bancroft (2013) and Puts and Pope (2013). Arch Sex Behav 43, 3–6 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-013-0236-4

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