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Biopsychosocial approach: - Correct answer-Bio: genetic, anatomy, hormones.
Psycho: prev. experience, psychopathology. Social: overall community context.
Pederasty: - Correct answer-mentoring, sexual relationship between a young man
and dominant older man.
Behaviors common in non-human animals: - Correct answer-animal sexuality:
Masturbation, sexual interactions with same gender, and sexual signaling(flirting)
common in non-human animals. Sex is more complex animals more tied to
environment factors. Use sexual behavior for non-sexual purposes EX:
communicate aggression or submission.
Egypt: - Correct answer-recognized and treated STIs, practiced circumcision, used
sponges for contraception.
Greece: - Correct answer-males and females were assumed to be bisexual.
Practiced Pederasty, women had no legal rights and were kept at home.
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,Hebrews: - Correct answer-belief in one God provided one standard for behavior,
codified in an extensive set of laws. Emphasis on procreation- martial sex
celebrated; devalued/prohibited.
Romans: - Correct answer-had few restrictions on sexual behavior. Same-sex
behaviors and relationships tolerated. Women more visible socially but still
considered property.
China: - Correct answer-Taoism values heterosexual sex as a means of combining
yin and yang. Because success in sexual activity achieved harmony, manuals
existed to increase proficiency.
India: - Correct answer-Hinduism- focuses on cycle of life and rebirth, so sex is
valued, Kama Sutra, females valued less than males.
Islam: - Correct answer-Prophet Muhammad supported women's rights,
Muhammad's son-in-law saw women as more sexual than men, both sexes
encouraged to dress modest in public, sex and love celebrated in the arts-celibacy
not encouraged, sex outside of marriage could be punished by death.
YIN & YANG - Correct answer-Yang: masculine, assertive.
Yin: feminine, passive. Yin is valued but seen inferior to yang.
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, Kama Sutra- - Correct answer-detailed manual for sexual activity, also including
information on improving relationships and family functioning.
Protestant Reformation: - Correct answer-Luther and Calvin saw marital sex as
valuable also to strengthen marriages and manage stress.
Colonial America: - Correct answer-puritans had strict standards of behavior but
encouraged martial sex.
The Enlightenment: - Correct answer-sex seen as a natural drive, interest in rights
of women increased, continued persecution of gay/lesbians.
Post-Revolutionary America: - Correct answer-secularization of society lead to a
relaxation of sexual prohibitions.
Antimiscegenation laws: - Correct answer-first passed in 1670, outlawed sexual
contact and marriage between whites and nonwhites, based on white supremacy-
race mixing seen as producing inferior people, passed by 30 states, including NE.
Loving Case: - Correct answer-Richard and Mildred Loving, prosecuted for
violating VA law, were sent to prison but still fought in, married etc., VA law
overturned by the Supreme Court in 1967, rendering unconstitutional all remaining
similar laws.
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