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Professionals’ Attitudes towards Sex between Institutionalized Patients

Decisions about institutionalized patients’ sexual activity were not influenced by professional norms of: (1) competence of a patient to engage in sexual activity, (2) degree of consent, but were influenced by conventional norms of (3) nature of sexual activity, (4) location of sexual activity, (5) the sex of the initiating patient (6) sex of the other patient.

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