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According to Michael Kimmel in "The Kindest Un-Cut: Feminism, Judaism, and My Son's Foreskin" (25), a recent study showed that women achieved orgasm faster and were more likely to achieve multiple orgasms when having sex with men with intact penises. |
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| | B) | false |
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According to Michael Kimmel (25 "The Kindest Un-Cut"), which of the following countries has the highest rate of circumcision? |
| | A) | Australia |
| | B) | the United States |
| | C) | Israel |
| | D) | Canada |
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According to Michael Kimmel (25 "The Kindest Un-Cut"), on the basis of which of the following has circumcision NOT historically been justified in America? |
| | A) | Americanizing immigrants by creating higher morals |
| | B) | curbing sexual appetites |
| | C) | preventing infection |
| | D) | sexual functioning |
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According to Michael Kimmel (25 "The Kindest Un-Cut"), which of the following is NOT considered characteristic of circumcised men? |
| | A) | They engage in more frequent masturbation than non-circumcised men. |
| | B) | They experience more sexual sensitivity than non-circumcised men. |
| | C) | They are more sexually active than non-circumcised men. |
| | D) | They are more likely to engage in anal and oral sex than non-circumcised men. |
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In "The Kindest Un-Cut" (25), Michael Kimmel was strongly opposed to the circumcision of his son because of the gendered politics of the ritual. |
| | A) | true |
| | B) | false |
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In L. Maurer and M. Kelly's "A Story of Sexuality and Gender in Three Parts" (26), the author who had breasts removed identified as a: |
| | A) | man |
| | B) | woman |
| | C) | third-gendered person |
| | D) | feminine-born male |
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According to Maurer and Kelly (26 "A Story of Sexuality and Gender in Three Parts"), the author had medical support for breast-removal surgery, but no familial support. |
| | A) | true |
| | B) | false |
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Leonore Tiefer (27 "Medicine, Morality, and the Public Management of Sexual Matters") suggests that the ______________________ was a catalyst for the dominance of the medical model for sexuality. |
| | A) | psychological model of sexuality |
| | B) | sexual gratification cycle |
| | C) | Human Sexual Response Cycle |
| | D) | cultural-specific model of sexuality |
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According to Leonore Tiefer (27 "Medicine, Morality, and the Public Management of Sexual Matters"), the medicalization of men's sexuality, specifically correcting penile dysfunction, is often based on what is socially constructed as abnormal. |
| | A) | true |
| | B) | false |
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According to Loren Frankel (28 "Hands Off! The Taboo Surrounding Males' First Ejaculation"), during the late 19th century in America, many adolescents and adults believed that both masturbation and nocturnal emissions caused moral, mental, social, and physical decline. |
| | A) | true |
| | B) | false |
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Loren Frankel (28 "Hands off! The Taboo Surrounding Males' First Ejaculation") discusses the contradiction given that a male's first ejaculation is both a tabooed act and a universal experience of adolescent male development. |
| | A) | true |
| | B) | false |
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According to Rachel Maines (29 "Socially Camouflaged Technologies: The Case of the Electromechanical Vibrator"), electromechanical vibrators were sold and marketed in the early 1900s to which of the following groups? |
| | A) | upper-middle-class women |
| | B) | lower-middle-class men |
| | C) | working-class men |
| | D) | all classes of women |
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According to Loren Maines (29 "Socially Camouflaged Technologies"), in the 19th century, doctors treated "hysteria" by using the electromechanical vibrator to bring women to orgasm. |
| | A) | true |
| | B) | false |
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According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as stated in Sonia Shah's "The Orgasm Industry: Drug Companies Search for a Female Viagra" (30), female sexual dysfunction is defined as decreased sexual desire, decreased sexual arousal, pain during intercourse, or inability to climax. |
| | A) | true |
| | B) | false |
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According to Anne Fausto-Sterling (32 "The Five Sexes, Revisited"), surgical correction of intersexuality is a generally appropriate treatment response. |
| | A) | true |
| | B) | false |
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In "The Five Sexes, Revisited" (32), Anne Fausto-Sterling discusses the existence of a movement in society toward recognizing that gender variation is normal-and for some people, an arena for playful exploration. |
| | A) | true |
| | B) | false |
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According to Kent Sandstrom (34 "Redefining Sex and Intimacy: The Sexual Self-Images, Outlooks, and Relationships of Gay Men Living with HIV/AIDS"), persons diagnosed with HIV face many challenges in negotiating new relationships, including all of the following EXCEPT: |
| | A) | finding ways to connect with prospective sexual partners |
| | B) | deciding whether to disclose their HIV status |
| | C) | deciding how to protect themselves against the prospect of stigma or rejection |
| | D) | restricting the possibility of relationships by connecting only with seropositive persons like themselves |
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Kent Sandstrom's study (34 "Redefining Sex and Intimacy") suggests that men with HIV who looked for and negotiated new sexual relationships encountered a variety of dilemmas that made it difficult for them to engage comfortably in sex-but typically they chose to continue being sexually active. |
| | A) | true |
| | B) | false |
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According to Kent Sandstrom (34 "Redefining Sex and Intimacy"), many gay men in the 1970s and 1980s, particularly in the large cities on the East and West coasts, saw nonmonogamous and "casual" sex as a form of resistance to the normative practices of mainstream heterosexuality. |
| | A) | true |
| | B) | false |
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All of the HIV-positive men in Kent Sandstrom's study (34 "Redefining Sex and Intimacy") reported positive implications of living with HIV, such as enabling them to find new, nonsexual ways to express love and build intimacy. |
| | A) | true |
| | B) | false |
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Kent Sandstrom's research on gay men living with HIV (34 "Redefining Sex and Intimacy") is important because threats to one's sexuality and identity are also experienced by people suffering from other serious chronic illnesses such as breast cancer and genitourologic cancer. |
| | A) | true |
| | B) | false |
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2003 McGraw-Hill Higher Education