Why A Course In Human Sexuality?

Front 1

Most young people turn to ____________ and ____________ for information
about sex, but much of what they learn is incorrect.

Back 1

Their friends/The media

Front 2

Surveys indicate that more than ____________% of Americans favor sexuality
education in school.

Back 2

85

Front 3

Sex is only a part of ____________, which encompasses all of the sexual attitudes,
feelings, and behaviors associated with being human.

Back 3

Sexuality

Front 4

The idea that the primary purpose of sex is for procreation (to have children) originally
came from ____________, but they also had a very positive attitude about their
bodies and sexual pleasure between husbands and wives.

Back 4

The biblical Hebrews

Front 5

The early ____________ affirmed the procreational purpose of sex, but completely
denied its pleasurable aspects.

Back 5

Christians

Front 6

Sexual desire, even within marriage, was now associated with guilt. The biggest
proponent of this view within Christianity was ____________.

Back 6

Saint Augustine

Front 7

In Western culture, negative attitudes about sex reached their zenith during the reign
of ____________ of England. During this time, the medical profession contributed
many incorrect negative beliefs about engaging in sex, including the belief that excess
sex, particularly masturbation, could lead to serious medical problems and eventually to
insanity.

Back 7

Queen Victoria

Front 8

With the availability of ____________ during World War II and the marketing of
____________ in 1960, the United States entered the sexual revolution.

Back 8

Penicillin/The birth control pill and IUD

Front 9

The manner in which society shapes behaviors and attitudes is called ____________.

Back 9

Socialization

Front 10

There is probably no other socializing agent with as much an impact on young people’s
sexual attitudes and behaviors as ____________, especially television.

Back 10

The media

Front 11

Many advertisements, whether on television or in magazines, provide little product
information, but instead use sex to sell their products in a process called
____________.

Back 11

Identification

Front 12

The media in ____________show more nudity than in the United States, but the
teenage pregnancy rate is much lower.

Back 12

Europe

Front 13

____________, who emphasized the sexuality of all people, including children,
and ____________, who published seven volumes about the psychology of sex,
were two researchers of the Victorian era who attempted to counter antisexual attitudes.
However, it has only been within the last 40 years that the scientific and medical
communities have accepted sex as a subject for serious discussion and research. The first
large-scale surveys were done by ____________ in the 1940s and early 1950s.

Back 13

Sigmund Freud/Henry Havelock Ellis/Alfred Kinsey

Front 14

____________published their physiological investigations of human sexual behavior
in 1966.

Back 14

Masters and Johnson

Front 15

True/False: The Old Testament presents a positive view of sex within marriage.

Back 15

True

Front 16

True/False: American sexual behaviors are considered to be the norm by the rest of the world.

Back 16

False

Front 17

True/False: Because of AIDS, all states now require that public schools offer education about sexually transmitted infections.

Back 17

False

Front 18

True/False: The larger the number of people in a survey, the more accurate it always is.

Back 18

False

Front 19

True/False: All cultures consider women’s breasts to be highly erotic.

Back 19

False

Front 20

True/False: Kissing is one sexual behavior that is done worldwide.

Back 20

False

Front 21

True/False: One good method of obtaining a random sample is to randomly pick names from a phone book.

Back 21

False

Front 22

True/False: Half of all Americans will get at least one sexually transmitted infection in their lifetime.

Back 22

True

Front 23

True/False: Over half of all American teenagers have had sexual intercourse by the time they graduate from high school.

Back 23

True

Front 24

True/False: The era of permissiveness known as the “sexual revolution” started during the Victorian era.

Back 24

False

Front 25

True/False: Kinsey’s surveys are a good example of the use of random sampling techniques.

Back 25

False

Front 26

True/False: A strong positive correlation between two variables is evidence of a cause-and-effect
relationship.

Back 26

False

Front 27

True/False: Starting in the late 1990s, there has been a decline in the percentage of teenagers engaging in sexual intercourse and in teenage pregnancies.

Back 27

True

Front 28

True/False: According to historian Phillippe Aries, the idea of childhood did not exist in medieval society.

Back 28

True

Front 29

True/False: The biological immaturity of children is an irrefutable fact, but childhood is a social concept.

Back 29

True

Front 30

True/False: In some cultures girls are expected to marry and begin having intercourse before puberty.

Back 30

True

Front 31

True/False: School-based sex education is a socializing agent.

Back 31

True

Front 32

True/False: Children who watch a lot of television shows with sexual content are no more likely than
others to have begun sexual intercourse.

Back 32

False

Front 33

True/False: In a controlled experiment, teenagers who had just watched television shows with a lot of
sexual content gave more negative ratings to casual sex than teens who had not watched the programs.

Back 33

False

Front 34

A Victorian-era physician who emphasized the sexuality of children and adults

Back 34

Sigmund Freud

Front 35

He viewed sex for procreation as an unpleasant necessity and equated guilt with sexual
desire

Back 35

Saint Augustine

Front 36

Conducted the first large-scale physiological study of human sexual behavior

Back 36

Masters and Johnson

Front 37

They believed that the purpose of sex was for procreation, but had a very positive attitude
about sexual relations between a husband and wife

Back 37

Biblical Hebrews

Front 38

They believed in an ascetic philosophy: Wisdom and virtue come from denying physical
pleasures

Back 38

Ancient Greeks

Front 39

He conducted the first large-scale survey of American sexual attitudes and behaviors

Back 39

Alfred Kinsey

Front 40

The first major influence on Christian sexual values, he regarded bodily pleasures as evil and thought it “well for a man not to touch a woman”

Back 40

Saint Paul

Front 41

A Victorian-era sex researcher with a tolerant attitude about sexuality

Back 41

Henry Havelock Ellis

Front 42

They held antisexual attitudes that were reinforced by the mistaken medical beliefs of
that time

Back 42

Victorians

Front 43

He headed a recent survey of a nationally representative sample of adults living in households

Back 43

Edward Laumann

Front 44

Anthropologists believe the most sexually repressed society in the world to be the ____________.

Back 44

Inis Baeg

Front 45

Four important influences that led to the sexual revolution were (a)__________, (b)
__________, (c)__________, and (d)__________.

Back 45

Leisure time, mobility, birth control, antibiotics

Front 46

A random sample is as properly defined as a sample drawn from a population in a manner so that __________ has an equal chance of being selected.

Back 46

Each possible sample of that size

Front 47

__________ believed that intellectual love could lead to immortality.

Back 47

Plato

Front 48

A major influence on early Christian thought was the Greek philosophy of dualism,
which separated __________ and __________.

Back 48

Body, soul

Front 49

Victorian physicians called nocturnal emissions __________ because they believed they were caused by the same thing that causes gonorrhea.

Back 49

Spermatorrhea

Front 50

In the National Health and Social Life Survey, “sex” or “had sex” was defined as ______.

Back 50

“Any mutually voluntary activity
with another person that involves
genital contact…”

Front 51

_________ has been called “the most powerful storyteller in American culture, one that
continually repeats the myths and ideologies, the facts and patterns of relationships that
define our world and legitimize the social order.”

Back 51

television

Front 52

A random sample is as properly defined as a sample drawn from a population in a manner so that __________ has an equal chance of being selected.

Back 52

Each possible sample of that size

Front 53

__________ believed that intellectual love could lead to immortality.

Back 53

Plato

Front 54

A major influence on early Christian thought was the Greek philosophy of dualism,
which separated __________ and __________.

Back 54

Body, soul

Front 55

Victorian physicians called nocturnal emissions __________ because they believed they were caused by the same thing that causes gonorrhea.

Back 55

Spermatorrhea

Front 56

In the National Health and Social Life Survey, “sex” or “had sex” was defined as ______.

Back 56

“Any mutually voluntary activity
with another person that involves
genital contact…”

Front 57

_________ has been called “the most powerful storyteller in American culture, one that
continually repeats the myths and ideologies, the facts and patterns of relationships that
define our world and legitimize the social order.”

Back 57

television