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1 .       __________ perspectives focus on heterosexual and homosexual conduct as learned behavior and on the process by which individuals come to identify themselves as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or straight. 

  a. Interactionist
  b. Biological
  c. Psychological
  d. Functionalist


2 .       __________ is a relatively new term that broadly means physical sexual intimacy without any exchange of body fluids. 

  a. Heterosexual sex
  b. Lesbian sex
  c. Safe sex
  d. Casual sex


3 .       Sexual preference implies a sense of choice regarding the sex of people to whom they are attracted, while __________ implies a deterministic view of sexual proclivities. 

  a. sexual need
  b. sexual orientation
  c. biological orientation
  d. societal orientation


4 .       __________ occurs when an adult engages in sexual activity such as exposure of the genitalia, fondling, intercourse, oral sex, or pornography with a minor. 

  a. Child deviance
  b. Child pornography
  c. Differential association
  d. Child molestation


5 .       From the __________ perspective, the powerful impose their values on the less powerful, thereby institutionalizing behavioral standards of propriety and impropriety, morality and immorality, legality and illegality. 

  a. feminist
  b. conflict
  c. functionalist
  d. interactionist


6 .       Unlike erotica, __________ is actually less about sex than about the degradation of women and children through sex. 

  a. sexually explicit material
  b. differential association
  c. pornography
  d. indecency


7 .       Most societies have norms pertaining to __________--attitudes, beliefs, and practices related to sexual attraction and intimate relationships with others. 

  a. sexuality
  b. sexual involvement
  c. sexual identification
  d. sexual deviance


8 .       According to the biological perspective, gay men and lesbians cannot be blamed for their sexual orientation because homosexuality is a(n) __________ characteristic. 

  a. dominant
  b. deviant
  c. ascribed
  d. master status


9 .       In the late 1990s, __________ is perhaps the most effective means of reducing homophobia and bringing about greater equality for gay and lesbian people. 

  a. discretion
  b. gay advocacy
  c. conformity
  d. safe sex


10 .       Changes in premarital sex during the twentieth century have often been referred to as: 

  a. sexual deviance
  b. primary deviance
  c. secularization
  d. the sexual revolution






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