SOC 2070 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
The sexual customs around the world have great diversity but also consistent
similarities, - Answer -true
Freud thought all human beings were motivated by a powerful sex drive in their daily
behaviour and that all people move through the same stages of sexual behaviour. -
Answer -true
Female sex workers have been considered deviant while their clients are commonly
considered mostly normal. - Answer -true
Current surveys show that a growing minority of teenagers do not consider oral sex as
"real sex" or as anything serious - Answer -true
In 1948, the Kinsey report found a lot of perversion and a 10% rate of homosexuality--
but findings are now discredited - Answer -true
The 1994 Sex in America study found that 2.8% of men and 1.4% of women considered
themselves homosexual. The percentage of people who had committed homosexual
acts were somewhat higher. - Answer -true
What is the American Pie Rule? - Answer -men exaggerate, and women downplay the
number of sexual partners.
According to clinicians (psychiatrists & psychologists), sexual disorders include sexual
dysfunctions, paraphilias & fetishes, and gender identity disorders. - Answer -true
Sexual disorders and sexual deviance is the same thing - Answer -false
Sexual dysfunctions include anything that makes "normal" sex impossible like
impotence. - Answer -true
Paraphilias are obsessions that cause problems and risk being uncontrollable. -
Answer -true
By definition as they are practiced without mutual consent, voyeurism, exhibitionism,
frotteurism, and pedophilia are BOTH psychiatric disorders and forms of sexual
deviance - Answer -true
Stanton Wheeler once listed the dimensions of sexual behavior that usually determine
whether an act is seen as deviant as the who, the what, the how, the when, and the
where. - Answer -true
,The how includes the nature of consent, and the nature of act comes under the what as
well as the how - Answer -true
The definitions of sodomy varied from state to state, but all remaining sodomy laws in
the United States were overturned in 2003. - Answer -true
In Canada, homosexuality was legalized in 1968, and homosexual marriage was
recognized in principle by Parliament in 2003. - Answer -true
What is the moralistic perspective in regards to Sex work? - Answer -it's bad and they
are bad people.
What is the social worker perspective in regards to sex work? - Answer -it's bad and we
should save the poor people who do it
What is the Marxist perspective in regards to sex work? - Answer -capitalism causes
the problem
What is the functionalist perspective in regards to sex work? - Answer -we may deplore
it, but it wouldn't survive unless it had some benefit for society.
Radical feminists believe that all heterosexual intercourse occurs in a male-dominated
society, genuine consent is impossible, and it maintains patriarchy - Catherine
Mackinnon - Answer -true
Gloria Steinmen represents the proposition that the public must be re-educated to make
sex egalitarian and to end the objectification of women, pornography, and prostitution.
People should not want to do anything that makes women look inferior or to be sex
objects. - Answer -true
Wendy mcelroy and other sexual libertarians believe that People will always want to
enjoy themselves. Having free will, they have the right to enjoy anything consensual.
People should have as much liberty to what they please as long as hurt no one.
Prostitutes should have legal rights to safely conduct their business and there is no
point in jailing anyone for victimless crimes - Answer -true
What is the norm perspective in regards to sex work? - Answer -getting things out into
the open will help reduce double standards and hypocrisy, (and get legal help for sex
workers) but there's no perfect solution.
Jody Miller studied the sex industry in Thailand and used a moralistic and political
feminist point of view to conclude what? - Answer -prostitution was caused by
patriarchy and the interests of men such as pimps, and by the presence of American
military bases and foreign tourists creating a form of neo-colonialism
, Marjorie Muecke studies the sex industry in Thailand using the point of view as an
individual involved in it. What was her conclusion? - Answer -the traditional Buddhist
customs of emphasizing the care of one's family and excusing unpleasant means to
achieve it provided its foundation.
What is Sado-masochism & whipping - Answer -paying or asking to be sexually abused
What is Bestiality and zoophilia - Answer -sexual acts involving animals
What is vampirism? - Answer -drinking of blood for sexual gratification
What is voraphilia? - Answer -sexual fantasy of being swallowed whole
What is scatalogical? - Answer -obsession with excrement (pee/poo)?
What is frottage? - Answer -rubbing against strangers
What is exhibitionism? - Answer -sex with chance of getting caught or noticed by
strangers
What is voyeurism? - Answer -watching others have sex without consent
What is the existentialist perspective of homosexuality? - Answer -homosexuality is
innate and an orientation regardless of actual behaviour, and that there is a true kind of
homosexuality or something really there
What is the social constructionist view of homosexuality? - Answer -there are varied
practices, and people see it differently, and emphasis on the behaviour/reactions to it
So far, only the United & Episcopalian churches believe that homosexuality is not a sin
and that people were made that way by God. - Answer -true
"going on the down low." - Answer -Men who secretly seek gay sex without admitting
that they are gay themselves
Men who secretly seek gay sex without admitting that they are gay themselves are
usually more intolerant of homosexuals in public, - Answer -true
Men in prison who commit homosexual rape view themselves as heterosexuals -
Answer -true
Fetish vs. Sexual paraphilia - Answer -fetish: fixation on a physical object (feet)
Paraphilia: fixation on an activity
What is defined as sexually deviant is culturally and historically specific - Answer -true
The sexual customs around the world have great diversity but also consistent
similarities, - Answer -true
Freud thought all human beings were motivated by a powerful sex drive in their daily
behaviour and that all people move through the same stages of sexual behaviour. -
Answer -true
Female sex workers have been considered deviant while their clients are commonly
considered mostly normal. - Answer -true
Current surveys show that a growing minority of teenagers do not consider oral sex as
"real sex" or as anything serious - Answer -true
In 1948, the Kinsey report found a lot of perversion and a 10% rate of homosexuality--
but findings are now discredited - Answer -true
The 1994 Sex in America study found that 2.8% of men and 1.4% of women considered
themselves homosexual. The percentage of people who had committed homosexual
acts were somewhat higher. - Answer -true
What is the American Pie Rule? - Answer -men exaggerate, and women downplay the
number of sexual partners.
According to clinicians (psychiatrists & psychologists), sexual disorders include sexual
dysfunctions, paraphilias & fetishes, and gender identity disorders. - Answer -true
Sexual disorders and sexual deviance is the same thing - Answer -false
Sexual dysfunctions include anything that makes "normal" sex impossible like
impotence. - Answer -true
Paraphilias are obsessions that cause problems and risk being uncontrollable. -
Answer -true
By definition as they are practiced without mutual consent, voyeurism, exhibitionism,
frotteurism, and pedophilia are BOTH psychiatric disorders and forms of sexual
deviance - Answer -true
Stanton Wheeler once listed the dimensions of sexual behavior that usually determine
whether an act is seen as deviant as the who, the what, the how, the when, and the
where. - Answer -true
,The how includes the nature of consent, and the nature of act comes under the what as
well as the how - Answer -true
The definitions of sodomy varied from state to state, but all remaining sodomy laws in
the United States were overturned in 2003. - Answer -true
In Canada, homosexuality was legalized in 1968, and homosexual marriage was
recognized in principle by Parliament in 2003. - Answer -true
What is the moralistic perspective in regards to Sex work? - Answer -it's bad and they
are bad people.
What is the social worker perspective in regards to sex work? - Answer -it's bad and we
should save the poor people who do it
What is the Marxist perspective in regards to sex work? - Answer -capitalism causes
the problem
What is the functionalist perspective in regards to sex work? - Answer -we may deplore
it, but it wouldn't survive unless it had some benefit for society.
Radical feminists believe that all heterosexual intercourse occurs in a male-dominated
society, genuine consent is impossible, and it maintains patriarchy - Catherine
Mackinnon - Answer -true
Gloria Steinmen represents the proposition that the public must be re-educated to make
sex egalitarian and to end the objectification of women, pornography, and prostitution.
People should not want to do anything that makes women look inferior or to be sex
objects. - Answer -true
Wendy mcelroy and other sexual libertarians believe that People will always want to
enjoy themselves. Having free will, they have the right to enjoy anything consensual.
People should have as much liberty to what they please as long as hurt no one.
Prostitutes should have legal rights to safely conduct their business and there is no
point in jailing anyone for victimless crimes - Answer -true
What is the norm perspective in regards to sex work? - Answer -getting things out into
the open will help reduce double standards and hypocrisy, (and get legal help for sex
workers) but there's no perfect solution.
Jody Miller studied the sex industry in Thailand and used a moralistic and political
feminist point of view to conclude what? - Answer -prostitution was caused by
patriarchy and the interests of men such as pimps, and by the presence of American
military bases and foreign tourists creating a form of neo-colonialism
, Marjorie Muecke studies the sex industry in Thailand using the point of view as an
individual involved in it. What was her conclusion? - Answer -the traditional Buddhist
customs of emphasizing the care of one's family and excusing unpleasant means to
achieve it provided its foundation.
What is Sado-masochism & whipping - Answer -paying or asking to be sexually abused
What is Bestiality and zoophilia - Answer -sexual acts involving animals
What is vampirism? - Answer -drinking of blood for sexual gratification
What is voraphilia? - Answer -sexual fantasy of being swallowed whole
What is scatalogical? - Answer -obsession with excrement (pee/poo)?
What is frottage? - Answer -rubbing against strangers
What is exhibitionism? - Answer -sex with chance of getting caught or noticed by
strangers
What is voyeurism? - Answer -watching others have sex without consent
What is the existentialist perspective of homosexuality? - Answer -homosexuality is
innate and an orientation regardless of actual behaviour, and that there is a true kind of
homosexuality or something really there
What is the social constructionist view of homosexuality? - Answer -there are varied
practices, and people see it differently, and emphasis on the behaviour/reactions to it
So far, only the United & Episcopalian churches believe that homosexuality is not a sin
and that people were made that way by God. - Answer -true
"going on the down low." - Answer -Men who secretly seek gay sex without admitting
that they are gay themselves
Men who secretly seek gay sex without admitting that they are gay themselves are
usually more intolerant of homosexuals in public, - Answer -true
Men in prison who commit homosexual rape view themselves as heterosexuals -
Answer -true
Fetish vs. Sexual paraphilia - Answer -fetish: fixation on a physical object (feet)
Paraphilia: fixation on an activity
What is defined as sexually deviant is culturally and historically specific - Answer -true
