Deck 8: Love and Sex

Question 1

Illouz (cited by Aulette)interviewed people about the images and experiences they associated with love.She concluded that our images of love in Western culture are often associated with

A)marriage and babies.
B)consumption.
C)sexuality.
D)violence.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Researchers surveyed college students in the 1970's,1980's,and 1990's about whom they would marry.They found that

A)men and women are equally likely to be concerned about the earnings potential of their potential spouse.
B)men are more likely than women to be concerned about the earnings potential of their potential spouse.
C)women are more likely than men to be concerned about the earnings potential of their potential spouse.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Illouz (cited by Aulette)interviewed people about the images and experiences they associated with love.The answers clustered into three categories,including all of the following EXCEPT:

A)Travel
B)Babies
C)Nature
D)Eating

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Researchers surveyed college students in the 1970's,1980's,and 1990's about love.They asked the students if they would marry someone whom they did not love.The more recent research (1990's)indicated that

A)men and women were equally likely to say no.
B)women were more likely to say no.
C)men were more likely to say no.

Question 5

Aulette cited May,who said that love in Western society can take four forms.These include all of the following EXCEPT:

A)Lust,sex or libido
B)Eros
C)Friendship or Philia
D)Storgic

Question 6

All of the following are true EXCEPT:

A)Our social environment has nothing to do with our feelings of physical arousal.
B)Our social environment provides us with meanings for our feelings of physical arousal.
C)Our social environment tells us how to manage and control our feelings in order to conform to cultural norms.
D)Our social environment provides us with symbols to display our emotions.

Question 7

In the industrial 19th century U.S.,love was idealized as

A)an emotional relationship between women who were platonic (non-sexual),close friends.
B)the asexual love between mother and child.
C)an emotional,non-sexual relationship between a woman and man who were not married or not yet married.
D)an emotional relationship between husband and wife that included a good,fulfilling,and active sexual relationship.

Question 8

Human sexuality compared with sexuality in other animals is

A)more limited and predefined.
B)marked by more richness,plasticity and diversity.
C)unrelated to biological factors.
D)less variable and diverse.

Question 9

In medieval society (emerging in the 13th century)love was

A)an emotional but not necessarily a sexual relationship.
B)a sexual but not an emotional relationship.
C)an emotional relationship first that became a sexual relationship with marriage.
D)a sexual relationship first with marriage that became an emotional relationship after the marriage.

Question 10

Lingering kisses on the mouth are

A)a feature of nearly every society's expression of sexuality.
B)acceptable in only a few,mostly Western,cultures.
C)acceptable in most societies only between married couples.
D)a feature of African and Asian cultures but are taboo in many European cultures.

Question 11

Among the Aranda in central Australia,boys are not eligible to get married until

A)they have been initiated into sex through homosexual relationships with older men.
B)they have been initiated into sex through relationships with older women.
C)they have fathered a child.
D)they have provided an adequate amount of meat for their families through hunting.

Question 12

Researchers surveyed college students in the 1970's,1980's,and 1990's about love.They asked the students if they would marry someone whom they did not love.The earlier research (1970's and 1980's)indicated that

A)men and women were equally likely to say no.
B)men were more likely than women to say no.
C)women were more likely than men to say no.

Question 13

In the ancient societies of classical Greece,aristocratic men

A)wrote about falling in love with the teenage boys whom they often married.
B)wrote about falling in love with the women whom they often married.
C)married women but wrote about their love for teenage boys with whom they had sexual relationships.
D)married women but wrote about their love for teenage boys with whom they had platonic (non-sexual)relationships.

Question 14

In the ancient societies of Greece and Rome,

A)love did not exist.
B)love existed but was kept separate from marriage.
C)love was an important component of marriage.
D)love was important for marriage among the peasant class but not for the upper class.

Question 15

At what point in Western history do we find the development of free mate selection based on love?

A)Ancient Greece
B)Ancient Rome
C)Medieval England
D)Colonial America

Question 16

Laws in the United States

A)do not address sexual issues between consenting adults.
B)protect consenting adults from restrictions on their sexual activity.
C)restrict homosexual activity but not heterosexual activity.
D)frequently restrict common sexual activities of both heterosexuals and homosexuals.

Question 17

Among the Ik in East Africa,the primary form of sexuality is

A)homosexuality.
B)masturbation.
C)oral sexual activity.
D)anal sexual activity.

Question 18

Among ancient Greeks love meant

A)an emotional but not a sexual relationship.
B)a sexual but not an emotional relationship.
C)an emotional relationship first that became a sexual relationship with marriage.
D)a sexual relationship first that became an emotional relationship after the marriage.

Question 19

Illouz interviewed people about the images and experiences they associated with love.She found

A)no relationship between socio-economic status and romantic images.
B)that working-class people were more likely than middle-class people to identify consumption as part of their romantic images.
C)that middle-class people were more likely than working-class people to identify consumption as part of their romantic images.

Question 20

As in all societies,contemporary U.S.society has certain standards that tell us how we are supposed to feel and act sexually.The U.S.standards include all of the following EXCEPT:

A)Marital
B)Storgic
C)Orgasmic
D)Romantic

Question 21

The National Opinion Research Center conducts surveys of a national sample of people in the U.S.and asks about their attitudes towards premarital sex.They have found that from 1972 to 2006 the percentage of people indicating that premarital sex is "always wrong" or "almost always wrong"

A)increased.
B)decreased.
C)stayed the same.

Question 22

Data from 2005 indicated that men have a median of ________ sex partners in their lifetime while women have a median number of about ________.

A)three or four ...two.
B)six to eight ...four.
C)ten to twelve ...six.
D)twenty to twenty-two ...ten

Question 23

Research on the sex lives of married couples reported by Aulette indicated that women whose husbands wanted more sex described how they were more interested in sex and consciously rewarded their husbands with sex when the husbands

A)brought them flowers.
B)participated in housework.
C)approved of extra expenditures.
D)took them out to dinner.

Question 24

Research on the sex lives of married couples cited by Aulette reported that women described sex as

A)an enjoyable recreation.
B)a form of work.
C)a spiritual or religious experience.
D)personally distasteful.

Question 25

Michael and colleagues (cited by Aulette)grouped people's attitudes toward sex into three major categories.All of the following categories were described by these researchers EXCEPT:

A)Traditional
B)Liberal
C)Relational
D)Recreational

Question 26

Data from 2002 on teen sexual behavior indicated that young

A)women had sexual intercourse more often than men.
B)men had sexual intercourse more often than women.
C)women and men had sexual intercourse with about the same frequency.

Question 27

The law (in the United States)

A)views sexual intercourse as a required feature of marriage.
B)does not comment on sexual matters between heterosexual consenting adults,either married or unmarried.
C)does not deal with sex between adults married to each other but does deal with nonmarital and extramarital sex.
D)does not mention adultery.

Question 28

Research on teen sexual behavior indicates that women are twice as likely to name _______ as the reason for first intercourse and men are twice as likely to name _______.

A)affection ...affection
B)curiosity ...curiosity
C)affection ...curiosity
D)curiosity ...affection

Question 29

Michael and colleagues researched attitudes towards sex.They found that people could be grouped into three categories.The largest category,which consists of about half of the respondents,is called

A)traditional.
B)progressive.
C)relational.
D)recreational.

Question 30

The National Opinion Research Center conducts surveys of a national sample of people in the U.S.and asks about their attitudes towards premarital sex.They have found that the majority of people think premarital sex is

A)always wrong.
B)never wrong.
C)wrong at least sometimes.

Question 31

The 2003 Supreme Court decision,Lawrence et al.v.Texas,declared that a Texas statute violated the U.S.Constitution.The Texas statute had made it a crime for

A)women to refuse sex to their husbands.
B)a person 21 years or older to marry a person 17 years or younger.
C)two persons of different races to marry.
D)two persons of the same sex to engage in an intimate sexual relationship.

Question 32

Thompson (cited by Aulette)interviewed working-class teenage women about their sexual experience.She found that young women were engaging in coitus at an earlier age than previously.She also found that these young women

A)are more sexually active.
B)report a lack of enjoyment associated with sex.
C)do not associate sex with romance.
D)are more likely to use birth control than a decade earlier.

Question 33

Research indicates that people in which category,below,have the highest frequency of sexual activity?

A)Never married single
B)Divorced
C)Married
D)Cohabiting

Question 34

Researchers who study premarital sex identify three stages in the twentieth century.They label the period between 1900 and 1950 as the era of _______.They call the period of the 1960's and 1970's the era of _______.They call the period of the 1980's the era of _______.

A)abstinence ...double standard ...permissive with affection.
B)double standard ...permissive with affection ...permissive.
C)permissive with affection ...permissive without affection ...double standard.
D)moral absolutes ...moral dilemmas ...moral relativism.

Question 35

Research on premarital sex indicates that over the past century,

A)increasing numbers of people engage in premarital coitus at younger ages.
B)Increasing numbers of people engage in premarital coitus but at older ages.
C)the highest rate of premarital coitus occurred in the sexual revolution of the 1960's with lower numbers before and since.
D)the difference between men and women has not changed.

Question 36

Research on the sex lives of married couples has shown that

A)women receive mixed messages from their husbands.
B)husbands are proud of their wives sexual skills and expertise.
C)women are more interested in experimenting with new sexual techniques than men.
D)women express discomfort and fear about losing control.

Question 37

Researchers studying attitudes and behavior regarding premarital sex asked a second question of respondents who said that they thought premarital sex was always wrong.They found that the majority of these respondents

A)had not engaged in premarital sex.
B)had engaged in premarital sex.
C)thought all sex was wrong.
D)did not enjoy sex.

Question 38

Thompson (cited by Aulette)interviewed working-class teenage women about their sexual experience.She concluded all of the following EXCEPT:

A)the lower age of first coitus does not necessarily mean that young people are more sexually active.
B)although young women are engaging in coitus at an earlier age,they may not be enjoying their experiences.
C)young women spend an enormous amount of energy infusing romance into their sexual experience.
D)the young women were more casual and recreational about their sexual experiences than similarly-aged men.

Question 39

Research reported by Aulette documents gender differences in the reasons people give for having sexual intercourse the first time.The most common reason given by men was __________.The most common reason given by women was ___________.

A)curiosity/readiness for sex … affection for partner.
B)peer pressure … curiosity/readiness for sex.
C)under the influence of drugs/alcohol … peer pressure.
D)wedding night … wanted to have a baby.

Question 40

Michael and colleagues researched attitudes towards sex.They found that people could be grouped into three categories.A larger proportion of women than men were identified as __________.A larger proportion of men than women were identified as __________.

A)traditional ...recreational.
B)relational ...traditional.
C)recreational ...relational
D)progressive ...traditional.

Question 41

The leading cause of death for African American women between the ages of 25 and 34 is

A)homicide.
B)drug abuse.
C)abortion.
D)AIDS.

Question 42

The Plan B drug prevents pregnancy by

A)causing the sperm to prematurely dissolve.
B)causing the egg to prematurely dissolve.
C)preventing ovulation,fertilization or implantation.
D)starting an abortion.

Question 43

The Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal in the United States in 1973 is called the __________ decision.

A)Roe v.Wade
B)Plessy v.Ferguson
C)Edwards v.the Board of Health
D)Brown v.the Board of Education

Question 44

Before the 1973 Supreme Court decision,abortion had __________ in the United States.

A)always been illegal
B)always been legal
C)been illegal since the late 1800's
D)been legal since the late 1800's

Question 45

The nineteenth century (first wave)feminists

A)advocated making abortion legal.
B)advocated making abortion illegal.
C)avoided taking a position on abortion to prevent radicalization of the suffrage movement.
D)avoided taking a position on abortion because women could not vote.

Question 46

Social constructionists assert

A)sexuality is inborn; we are born to be either gay or straight.
B)homosexual activity is a relatively recent social phenomenon developing within the last century,a time of choice and experimentation.
C)sexuality is too varied to fit people into a limited number of categories labeled heterosexual,homosexual,lesbian or bisexual.
D)sexuality is a matter of free choice.

Question 47

Which of the following is associated with higher rates of extramarital sex?

A)Graduating from college compared to not completing high school.
B)Living in a city compared to living in a rural area.
C)Being more religious compared to being less religious.
D)Being poor compared to being rich.

Question 48

The Roe v.Wade Supreme Court decision in 1973 made ________ legal in all states.

A)inter-racial marriages
B)abortions
C)prostitution
D)birth control

Question 49

The majority of Americans

A)approve of legal abortion.
B)disapprove of legal abortion.
C)refuse to give an opinion on this contentious topic.

Question 50

Nineteenth-century feminists supported making abortion illegal because they thought that

A)women should take responsibility for their children.
B)life begins at conception.
C)legal abortion allowed men to be promiscuous and avoid responsibility for causing pregnancy.
D)legal abortion allowed women to be promiscuous and avoid responsibility for becoming pregnant.

Question 51

Third-Wave feminists

A)ignore the abortion debate as too divisive and focus on economic issues.
B)support both abortion rights and women's rights to choose to have a baby within a health care system that provides prenatal,maternal and pediatric health care.
C)support the loss of abortion rights tied to a guarantee of good prenatal,maternal and pediatric health care.
D)support states' rights to separately establish prohibitions,regulations or rights regarding abortion.

Question 52

Social constructionists assert that

A)the debate between repression and freedom determines our social construction of sexuality.
B)social construction does not apply to sexuality because sex is an essential,inborn drive.
C)a key factor in the social construction of sexuality in our society is its commodification and commercialization with the development of consumer capitalism.
D)sexuality is controlled through laws created to legislate morality.