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Human Sexuality: Chapter 1

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Question 1:


a) Live separately once a man and wife had had one son to carry on the name
b) Use oral contraception pills
c) Eat bland food
d) Censor sexually explicit material

Question 2:


a) Richard von Krafft-Ebing
b) Magnus Hirschfeld
c) Henry Havelock Ellis
d) Iwan Bloch

Question 3:


a) Magnus Hirschfeld
b) Alfred Kinsey
c) Sigmund Freud
d) William Masters

Question 4:


a) Condom uses and prevention of HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections
b) Sexual orientation
c) Birth control
d) Sexual arousal

Question 5:


a) A guide to sexual positions and pleasure
b) A guide to virtuous living and love
c) A guide to morality
d) A guide to “perverse” sexual acts

Question 6:


a) Through positive association
b) Through arousal
c) Through positive self-imagery
d) Through insecurity

Question 7:


a) The 1930s
b) The 1940s
c) The 1950s
d) The 1960s

Question 8:


a) The introduction of sex education in Canadian schools
b) The development of oral contraceptives
c) An increase in the birth rate
d) An increase in sexual messages in media that were directed at female consumers

Question 9:


a) Isis in ancient Egypt
b) Aphrodite in ancient Greece
c) Venus in ancient Rome
d) Ishtar in ancient Babylonia

Question 10:


a) In Europe
b) In the Middle East
c) In Asia
d) In Africa