Marriage, Sex, and Hydrocele: An Ethnographic Study on the Effect of Filarial Hydrocele on Conjugal Life and Marriageability from Orissa, India

Bontha V. Babu; Suchismita Mishra; Abhaya N. Nayak

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0000414

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Marriage, Sex, and Hydrocele: An Ethnographic Study on the Effect of Filarial Hydrocele on Conjugal Life and Marriageability from Orissa, India

Bontha V. Babu ,

* E-mail: babubontha@gmail.com

Affiliations Regional Medical Research Centre, Indian Council of Medical Research, Bhubaneswar, India, Social and Behavioural Research Unit, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India
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Suchismita Mishra,

Affiliation Regional Medical Research Centre, Indian Council of Medical Research, Bhubaneswar, India
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Abhaya N. Nayak

Affiliation Regional Medical Research Centre, Indian Council of Medical Research, Bhubaneswar, India
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Marriage, Sex, and Hydrocele: An Ethnographic Study on the Effect of Filarial Hydrocele on Conjugal Life and Marriageability from Orissa, India

Bontha V. Babu,
Suchismita Mishra,
Abhaya N. Nayak

Published: April 21, 2009
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0000414

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Well written article, I must say

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Lot of hardwork and physical effort must have gone to work on this article. I am sure!

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Marriage, Sex, and Hydrocele: An Ethnographic Study on the Effect of Filarial Hydrocele on Conjugal Life and Marriageability from Orissa, India

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Well written article, I must say

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