Exam 11: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Females exposed to low levels of androgens before birth show tomboyish behavior in childhood and then return to more feminine interests and gender characteristics during adolescence, while many girls who are highly feminine in childhood become more tomboyish in adolescence as they seek to explore the social power that comes with more masculine gender roles. These two cases make it clear that

Gender differences refer to biological characteristics, while sex differences refer to psychological and social factors.

Regarding the vast amounts of free pornography via the Internet, which of the following statements is FALSE?

Differences in neurotransmitter levels have been detected in which part of the brain in homosexual and heterosexual persons?

In males, a second orgasm is usually prevented by a

Which of the following most often involves the rubbing of the clitoris or areas near it in females, while it takes the form of rubbing or stroking of the penis in males?

According to your text, most people who engage in exhibitionism do so because they

Regarding the research on homosexuality, which of the following statements is\are TRUE?

Two contemporary sexual scripts that emphasize causal sex are

"Flashing," or displaying the genitals to unwilling viewers is known as __________ disorder.

Four-year-old Debbie tells her father that she wants to fix cars and be a racecar driver when she grows up. Her father tells her that she cannot do that because a person has to be "strong and rough and has to understand how machines work, and women have trouble doing that." Debbie's father is

According to recent research studies, oversexualizing of young girls has resulted in these girls developing low self-esteem, eating disorders, depression, and feelings of shame as well as showing poor performance on intellectual activities.

Before birth if a male child receives too little testosterone, which condition may result?

Sexually deviant expressions, such as seen in frotteuristic or fetishistic disorders, are selected by the person because

Anorgasmic women are those who

Sigmund Freud claimed that a "clitoral orgasm" was an "immature" form of female sexual response.

Both tubal ligations and vasectomies

Discuss male erectile disorder, including the term once used for this sexual dysfunction, the diagnostic criteria that distinguish this disorder from a temporary problem, the different organic and psychogenic causes, the difference in primary and secondary types of this disorder, and the treatments used.

According to Zeiler and Wickström, the trend today regarding gender variance in children is

In the human sexual response cycle, orgasm is immediately preceded in most cases by a(n)__________ phase.