Deck 12: Sexual Deviance and Sexual Harassment

Question 1

According to Alfred C. Kinsey's study on prostitution, only 15-20 percent of his white male sample had some experience with prostitution.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Jennifer James classifies the prostitutes' customers by their motivations for hiring.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

By the 1960s, public agitation destroyed brothels as a major aspect of prostitution.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

With the decline of brothels, prostitution became often a matter of individual entrepreneurship.

Question 5

Hustling is the preferred term among prostitutes for prostituting.

Question 6

The most common type of prostitute is the streetwalker.

Question 7

Most prostitutes enter the profession through coercion.

Question 8

There appears to be three experiences common to many of the women engaged in the occupation on a full-time basis. These career contingencies are: early and frequent promiscuous sexual experiences, acquisition of verbalized motives favorable to prostitution, and dependence on illegal drugs.

Question 9

Prostitution in the United States had always been tolerated until the early part of this century when American cities became caught in a fervor of vice crusades.

Question 10

The feminist goal is to eliminate prostitution by eliminating the sexism that creates the demand.

Question 11

Feminists and prostitutes both argue for a move away from prohibition of prostitution to its regulation.

Question 12

Most nations, like the United States, place restrictions on homosexual conduct between consenting adults in private.

Question 13

According to Joseph Harry, approximately 15 percent of all homosexuals have been threatened with extortion.

Question 14

Lifetime victimization rates for homosexuals range from 31 to 40 percent.

Question 15

Research has found that parent-child relationships are not an important contributor to sexual preference.

Question 16

Gay organizations have played a tremendous role in overcoming discriminatory practices against homosexuals.

Question 17

Jennifer James identifies the __________ as a group of johns, who hire prostitutes for a friend's first sexual experience or his last fling before marriage, for a stag party, or as part of a night on the town.

Question 18

The three elements which seem to be most common when defining prostitution are: activity that has sexual significance for the purchaser, economic transaction, and ______________.

Question 19

Brothels are often clustered in specific areas known as _____________.

Question 20

Those who profit the most from prostitution are the ______.

Question 21

Police sometimes engage in _____________ of homosexuals; which may include questions of customers entering and leaving gay bars, crackdowns on jaywalkers in gay areas, and raids of bars for ostensible lewd conduct, drunkenness, public nuisance, or any other offenses that can be found.

Question 22

The authors conclude that homosexuality is a ________.

Question 23

The __________ insulates gays from social stigma, provides verbalized motives for homosexual behavior, and eases anxieties and quilt feelings over such behavior.

Question 24

According to the Kinsey study, for American males prostitution:

A) has been a major sexual outlet for over a hundred years
B) is a less important sexual outlet than homosexuality
C) is a major sexual outlet only for young, lower class males
D) has been a major sexual outlet only since the increase in prostitution in the early 1970s
E) none of the above

Question 25

Little of the literature on prostitution deals with:

A) the motives of the prostitutes
B) the types of prostitutes
C) the customers of prostitutes
D) suggestions on what should be done about prostitution

Question 26

Research on the prostitute's customers indicates that most:

A) want a high degree of attractiveness in the women
B) are buying more than mere sex
C) have personal appearance that make it difficult for them to obtain sex without buying it
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 27

According to your textbook, any definition of prostitution should include reference to all of the following except:

A) activity that has sexual significance for the buyer
B) economic transaction
C) emotional indifference
D) partners who are strangers

Question 28

Until early in this century the dominant context for prostitution in the United States was:

A) the tavern
B) the streets of red light districts
C) the massage parlor
D) the brothel
E) the call house

Question 29

"Daytimers" are:

A) B-girls
B) hustlers
C) upper status streetwalkers
D) massage parlor workers
E) "escorts" or "uptown girls"

Question 30

A "chicken" is:

A) a young male hustler
B) a first-time john
C) a transvestite hustler
D) an abusive pimp
E) a "turkey"

Question 31

Becoming a female prostitute usually involves all except:

A) recognizing the possibility of high financial return
B) learning verbalized motives
C) early and frequent sexual experiences
D) being coerced by a pimp
E) none of the above - - all are usually involved

Question 32

It appears that most young male hustlers:

A) do not regard themselves as homosexuals
B) regard themselves as heterosexuals now but likely to become homosexuals in later life
C) regard themselves as both homosexuals and prostitutes
D) would like to develop closer emotional ties with their customers
E) c and d above

Question 33

Concerning the relationship between prostitution and illegal drug dependence, it appears that drug use precedes prostitution mostly for:

A) call girls
B) chickens
C) B-girls
D) streetwalkers
E) madams

Question 34

According to the pimp's philosophy,

A) a woman wants only one man with whom she feels secure
B) man's natural role is to be in charge
C) society is nothing but people trying to exploit each other
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 35

Recently in the United States, what factor has been relatively successful in obtaining legal rights for prostitutes?

A) feminist movement
B) prostitutes' unions
C) Supreme Court
D) pornography industry
E) moral majority

Question 36

Feminists generally favor which legal strategy toward prostitution?

A) decriminalization
B) prohibition
C) regulation
D) legalization

Question 37

Most homosexuals fear arrest because of:

A) the likelihood of long prison terms
B) the likelihood of large fines
C) the consequences of publicity
D) a and b above
E) none of the above since homosexuals generally do not worry about arrest today

Question 38

By law, a person may not be barred or dismissed from __________ purely on the basis of his or her sexual preference.

A) military service
B) private business
C) federal or state employment
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 39

Anthropological studies of preliterate societies indicate that homosexual activities:

A) are as universally prohibited as incest
B) are prohibited in nearly all societies
C) are permitted mostly in societies experiencing great population growth
D) are permitted in some form in the majority of societies
E) are encouraged mostly in societies experiencing moral decline

Question 40

According to the Kinsey Reports, what percentage of American white males have no homosexual experience throughout their entire lives?

A) 90%
B) 75%
C) 50%
D) 25%

Question 41

Some sociologists argue that the term "homosexual" is inaccurate and misleading because homosexuality is:

A) a condition not a behavior
B) a pathology not a condition
C) a pathology not a behavior
D) a behavior not a condition

Question 42

Which of the following variables has been conclusively linked with sexual orientation?

A) parent-child relationships
B) genetic factors
C) psychological maladjustment
D) a combination of all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 43

More or less regular homosexual encounters on military bases or in prisons, and which have little significance for the participant's self-concepts, are examples of:

A) casual homosexuality
B) personalized homosexuality
C) situated homosexuality
D) primary homosexuality
E) secondary homosexuality

Question 44

Sensitization, signification, "coming out," and stabilization are stages in:

A) adopting homosexuality as a way of life
B) therapy to change one' sexual orientation
C) the conflict process over changing the law regarding sexual conduct
D) none of the above

Question 45

All of the following contributed to the rise of the gay liberation except:

A) growing permissiveness toward all forms of sexual behavior
B) increasing divorce rates
C) greater personal anonymity
D) the research by Kinsey

Question 46

In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association:

A) added AIDS as a diagnostic category
B) added "homosexuality" as a diagnostic category
C) instituted an in-house program to treat homosexually-oriented psychiatrists
D) all of the above
E) none of the above