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Primary sex

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The difference in genitals

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Secondary sex

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The physical distinctive characteristics that occur as we mature

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Sexual orientation

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Someone's romantic, emotional, and sexual attraction to another person

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Pornography

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Words or images intended to cause sexual arousal

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Federal court in 1976

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Declared that sexual harassment as discrimination

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The Equal Employment Opportunities

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1. Offers quid pro quo 2. Subtle forms of behavior not intended to be harassing

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COYOTE

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Call off your old tired ethics; sex workers rights organization

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58% keep the baby 27% abort 15% miscarry

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Teenage pregnancy statistics:

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Abortion

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1. 1.2 million done 2. The US Supreme Court struck down all laws that banned abortion in 1973

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Sexual transmitted disease

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There are over 50 kinds of STD (gonorrhea, syphilis, and herpes). Began to rise during the sexual revolution in the 1960s.

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Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

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AIDS stands for:

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Structural-function Analysis (Controlling Sexuality)

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Emphasizes the importance of cultural norms guiding sexuality. Societies observe incest taboos and the traditional norms favor legitimate offspring.

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Symbolic-interaction analysis: Defining Sexuality

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1. Meaning people attach to sexuality (social construction) 2. Meaning of virginity 3. Sexual roles

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Queer theory

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A body of theory and research that challenges the heterosexual ways

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Prositution is bad, and abortion is bad

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Traditional Morality

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2004: Supreme Court of Massachusetts

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Ruled that gay men and lesbian women had the right to marry

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The Gay Rights Movement

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This movement gained public attention in the 1950s

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The "Stonewall Riot" on June 27, 1969

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Defining moment in the growth of the movement:

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Nudity and suggests sexual activity

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"Soft-core" pornography shows or describes:

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Explicit descriptions or images of sexual acts

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"Hard-core" pornography contains:

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Pornography is a social problem because it undermines morality

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Conservatives treat sex as a moral issue (pornography):

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Some contend that what people choose to read or view is their own business. Others object; demeaning to women.

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Liberals are divided (pornography):

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1985

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US Attorney General's Commission on Pornography was formed in:

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In the 60s

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The rise of the women's movement emerged:

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Low-income nations

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In a global perspective, prostitution is most common in ___-___ nations:

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Diverse, better, worse

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Prostitutes are a ___ category, with ___ or ___ working conditions

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Street walkers

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90% of women arrested for prostitution are ___ from low social class backgrounds

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Thailand; number of prostitutes may be as high as 220,000

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This country is the center of sex tourism:

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750,000 teenage girls

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In the U.S., about ____ teenage girls become pregnant each year

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Sex education

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A possible solution to the problem is ____ in schools

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Their bodies grow and change; reproduction occurs; to avoid pregnancy

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Programs of sex education explain to young people how:

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Legal

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In the U.S., from colonial era until mid-19th century, early-term abortion was ___:

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16,088 deaths

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Officials recorded ___ deaths in 2008:

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1. Anal sex 2. Sharing needles when using drugs 3. Any drug use (including alcohol) because it impairs one's judgment)

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Specific behavior that puts people at risk for HIV infection include:

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Contagious

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While HIV is infectious, it is not ___:

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Social-conflict analysis: sex and power

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This analysis highlights social inequality; women are seen as sexual objects

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Conservatives

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Support conventional norms that claim sexuality belongs within marriage. Believes that premarital sex and extramarital sex are social problems:

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Liberals

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All people should have considerable choice in how they express their sexuality:

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Radicals

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Believes these problems come about because one category of people has power over another:

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A number of practices associated with sex, including pornography, rape, and incest

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The feminist movement's challenge of men's power that took a stand against:

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The key is in the brain

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According to Simon LeVay:

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Declared that it no longer considered homosexuality to be a mental disorder

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In 1973, American Psychiatric Association:

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That about half of the sexually active students were "chained together" through a few sexual partners.

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The story of sexual activity among students at the high school in Jefferson City, Missouri, shows:

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True

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(T/F) The cultural norm encouraging virginity at marriage is much weaker today than it was a century ago.

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About 2 percent

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Research indicates that about what share of women identify themselves as homosexual?

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Increased

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Conservatives point out that, as more schools have adopted sex education programs over the past two decades, the level of sex activity among teenagers has:

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Sweden

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Which country recently enacted a law that targets not prostitutes, but "johns," who solicit sex?

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Human culture

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Sexual activity may involve human biology, but sociologists focus on the fact that it is also guided by:

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About ten nations

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In 2009, looking around the world, about how many countries permit same-sex marriage?

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True

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(T/F) Sex is both a biological and a culture issue.

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The sexual counterrevolution.

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During the 1970s, a conservative call for a return to traditional "family values" developed; this movement came to be called:

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A person can be sexually harassed by someone of either sex.

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In the 1998 case Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc., the U.S. Supreme Court declared that:

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One-half

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In a recent national survey, about what share of U.S. adults said that they think pornography encourages people to commit rape?

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Half

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About what share of people with AIDS in the United States were infected through homosexual activity?

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Employers are responsible when a supervisor harasses another employee, even if the company was not aware of the behavior, unless the company demonstrates that it had a well-publicized sexual harassment policy that the employee knew about but chose not to use.

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In 1998, in the case of Ellerth v. Burlington Industries, Inc., the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that:

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That state laws could not ban sodomy between same-sex couples.

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The 2003, U.S. Supreme Court settled the case of Lawrence et al. v. Texas stating:

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600,000

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The total death toll from AIDS in the United States is about:

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Call girls

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The most advantaged prostitutes in the United States are:

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Showed that many people in our society were less conventional about sex than had been popularly believed.

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Alfred Kinsey's 1940s and 1950s research on sex:

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True

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(T/F) According to Kinsey, about 4 percent of U.S. adult men and 2 percent of U.S. adult women have an exclusively homosexual orientation.

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True

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(T/F) Gay marriage is now legal in at least eight states.

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False

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(T/F) Most women support abortion rights; most men do not.

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