Deck 17: Sexual Disorders and Sex Therapy

Question 1

The kind of service that is safest for the commercial sex worker is typically

A)working for an escort service.
B)being a call-girl.
C)being a streetwalker.
D)working for an out-call service.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Angela believes that the government should regulate prostitution to help protect sex workers from violence and assault.Angela's beliefs reflect the arguments

A)for health care insurance for sex workers.
B)for abolishment of prostitution.
C)for the criminalization of prostitution-related activities.
D)for the decriminalization and/or legalization of prostitution-related activities.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

In Canada,what percent of people believe that neither sex workers nor clients should be punished for consensual prostitution?

A)30%
B)41%
C)48%
D)15%

Answer 3

C

Question 4

A value-laden term that refers to a prostitute is

A)commercial sex worker
B)baby pro
C)streetwalker
D)hooker

Question 5

These sex workers (women)work in regular shifts.They provide sexual gratification on an hourly basis,servicing clients who come to the apartment with the costs in major cities running about $150-$200 an hour.We are talking about women working through

A)call-girl services
B)in-call services
C)out-call services
D)escort services

Question 6

Which of the following is TRUE about how the laws around prostitution are enforced in Canada?

A)Police officers equally pose as male and female sex workers in order to lay charges.
B)Female sex workers are disproportionately charged.
C)People working in services off the street receive more charges than those working on the street.
D)Customers are charged more often than are sex workers.

Question 7

Claudine's job is to help sex workers and potential clients find each other.Claudine is a

A)madam
B)hustler
C)john
D)gigolo

Question 8

The ______ is the type of sex worker that has the most control over her customers and the situation in which she has sex.

A)baby pro
B)call girl
C)streetwalker
D)brothel sex worker

Question 9

Which offence in the Criminal Code of Canada that applies to prostitution was deemed to be unconstitutional by an Ontario Superior Court judge in 2010?

A)communication offences
B)keeping a common bawdy house
C)procuring
D)massage parlour offences

Question 10

Prostitution in Canada is,in fact,

A)legal only in the Atlantic Provinces.
B)legal only in Quebec.
C)legal only with a license.
D)not illegal.

Question 11

Generally,the least attractive and least fashionable of sex workers are the

A)streetwalkers
B)call girls
C)escorts
D)hotel sex workers

Question 12

In the late 1800s and early 1900s,the most likely place to find sex workers was

A)in a massage parlour.
B)in a brothel.
C)on a university campus.
D)at businesses and other places of employment.

Question 13

In which year did the Parliament pass specific legislation prohibiting the purchase of sexual services from someone under 18 years old?

A)1968
B)1978
C)1988
D)1998

Question 14

The kind of sex worker most likely to impose a time restriction upon her customer is the

A)escort
B)call girl
C)in-call services/brothel worker
D)streetwalker

Question 15

Which of the following activities related to prostitution is illegal in Canada?

A)paying a female to have sexual intercourse
B)paying a male to have anal intercourse
C)living on money made through prostitution
D)being paid by a female to have oral intercourse

Question 16

The movement to unionize sex workers spurs from the belief that

A)sex work is a trade and should be treated like all other trades.
B)sex workers' rights are not going to move forward without unionization.
C)a union for sex workers would protect them from pimps.
D)to legalize sex work,we must first legalize sex worker unions.

Question 17

Carolyn grew up in a middle-class home and completed a general arts degree in a university.After school she needed money to pay off debt so she became a sex worker.She is now one of the most expensive and elite sex workers.What kind of sex worker is she?

A)a call girl
B)a streetwalker
C)someone who works for in-call services
D)someone who works for out-call services

Question 18

Jill is a streetwalker.She financially supports her _________ who is also her companion and master.

A)pimp
B)agent
C)panderer
D)handler

Question 19

Sex workers in these settings vary a good deal in the price they charge for their services and usually have a standard menu of services for the customer is presented when he visits.Often food and drinks may be offered or these places may just be 'storefronts' located in 'commercial sex districts.' This type of prostitute service is called

A)massage parlours
B)out-call service
C)streetwalkers
D)baby pros

Question 20

Brothels are being replaced by

A)adult motels.
B)the VCR.
C)swinging clubs for "liberated" couples.
D)in-call services.

Question 21

The use of sex workers today is

A)significantly more than 50 years ago when Kinsey first asked America about using sex workers for sex.
B)about the same as 50 years ago.
C)significantly less than 50 years ago.
D)almost obsolete.

Question 22

This person is usually quite intelligent,has excellent financial skills and manages either call girls or sex workers coordinating their efforts through a brothel or an escort service.This person is

A)a sex worker
B)a madam
C)a pimp
D)a panderer

Question 23

One reason some prostitutes give for becoming a sex worker is

A)liking violent sex with a number of partners.
B)liking their 'johns,' who become like family.
C)the desire for money,material goods,and an exciting lifestyle.
D)to have a baby without getting marrieD.

Question 24

Which of the following is TRUE regarding how sex workers function in Canada?

A)Most adult sex workers have madams.
B)Most adult sex workers do not have a pimp.
C)Most adult sex workers have pimps for protection.
D)Most adult sex workers have licenses to perform services.

Question 25

Which of the following was given as a reason to denote the difficulty for sex workers to "leave the life"?

A)giving up regular sexual activity
B)finding a job without having job skills
C)long list of criminal charges
D)leaving a pimp

Question 26

In entering the field of being a sex worker,most women have to go through an apprenticeship.During this apprenticeship the women learn a variety of skills,one of which is

A)hustling
B)cunnilingus
C)anal sex
D)squaring up

Question 27

One study of the well-being of sex workers in the Netherlands found that

A)almost all were doing well-they had few physical or psychosocial complaints.
B)almost all were doing poorly with headaches,backaches,anxiety and depression,etc.
C)about 1/4 were doing well,1/4 were doing poorly and the rest were in the middle.
D)those women who had been working as prostitutes for over 3 years showed the best adjustment psychologically.

Question 28

Sex trafficking is

A)sending sex workers to a client in a taxi cab.
B)selling women and children off as sex slaves.
C)recruiting and controlling people using threat,force,or deception for sexual exploitation.
D)recruiting people by providing money,material goods,and education into sexual exploitation.

Question 29

The most important reason why women enter the "career" of being a sex worker is

A)economics.
B)drug addiction.
C)nymphomania.
D)to gain access to powerful individuals.

Question 30

Stella started working the streets as a sex worker at the age of 17 after she ran away from an abusive home environment.Stella is now 24 and is ready and wanting to leave the life.She is confident that she will be able to do so because she has connected with PEERS.What is it about PEERS that makes Stella confident?

A)PEERS is a program that will teach Stella job skills and give her resources she would have otherwise not had.
B)PEERS will give Stella a place to live until she finds her own joB.
C)Stella's PEERS are also sex workers so her confidence is unfounded.
D)Stella will be able to get social assistance through PEERS so that she will not have to work anywhere.

Question 31

Sex workers call all customers

A)chicken hawks
B)johns
C)a-holes
D)doughboys

Question 32

A particular skill that a sex worker must soon learn to do because of the high demand for this skill is

A)fellatio
B)accounting
C)anal sex
D)cunnilingus

Question 33

Helena and Chantrea are both sex workers.Helena works for herself,decides who her clients are and how much to charge.Chantrea was brought to Canada by her pimp who decides where,when,and how she will work.Chantrea wants to work for herself but is afraid that she will be beaten or even killed if she tries.Chantrea's condition suggests that she is a

A)streetwalker.
B)call girl.
C)sex worker at a massage parlour.
D)victim of sex trafficking.

Question 34

In Kinsey's study in the late 1940s,what percent of white males had some experience with a sex worker?

A)98
B)85
C)75
D)69

Question 35

"Squaring up" refers to

A)collecting money from a john.
B)giving up being a sex worker.
C)deciding whether or not a client is a policeman.
D)entering into being a sex worker.

Question 36

Your text explains the ______ in the percent of males patronizing sex workers between 1948 and 1992 as a likely side-effect of _______.

A)increase;Viagra usage
B)increase;increased divorce rates
C)decrease;increased non-marital and casual sex
D)decrease;decreased numbers of sex-workers

Question 37

Which of the following is NOT a contributing factor to sex trafficking of children?

A)parents being annoyed with their children
B)overpopulation
C)orphans
D)parents being too poor to raise their children

Question 38

While Kinsey reported that ________ percent of white males had experienced sex with a sex worker,more recent studies show _______ percent of men have engaged in sex with a sex worker.

A)49;51
B)22;75
C)69;17
D)21;10

Question 39

A landmark study by Vanwesenbeeck (1994)on images of the contemporary sex work found which of the following to be correct?

A)young,attractive,autonomous,healthy
B)young,brazen,aggressive
C)not-so-young,emotionally and physically damaged,a victim
D)All of these choices are correct

Question 40

Which of the following is NOT a third-party person involved in sex work?

A)massage parlour managers
B)madam
C)pimp
D)police

Question 41

Which of the following is NOT a factor that contributes to sex tourism?

A)increased travel for recreation
B)higher rate of single men and women in developed nations
C)migration from rural to urban areas
D)commodification of sexual intimacy

Question 42

When we examine who uses sex workers,

A)about one-half of a sex worker's customers are regulars.
B)only a very few are married.
C)almost all are single males in their twenties and thirties.
D)most are bisexual.

Question 43

All of the following are reasons that men use the services of sex workers on a regular basis EXCEPT

A)to enjoy sex in a context that is "forbidden."
B)that many are able to engage in practices that they think their wives would not do.
C)for some younger males to prove their manhood.
D)to have routine and predictable sex.

Question 44

Which of the following is a reason that some governments that have sex tourism do not try to stop or decrease the phenomenon from occurring?

A)Some governments are corrupt and are involved in sex trafficking and by default sex tourism.
B)Long-standing traditions in many countries where sex tourism occurs make this business legitimate.
C)The sexual taboos in many countries prevent governments from acknowledging sex tourism.
D)In some countries,sex tourism is a major economic sector.

Question 45

A study investigating the well-being of sex workers found that those with the worst level of well-being tended to

A)have entered prostitution out of a sense of adventure of doing something different.
B)use sex with multiple partners as therapy.
C)work independently.
D)be working the streets or windows.

Question 46

Which of the following is TRUE of hustlers (male sex workers)?

A)Most have an exclusive clientele.
B)Most work full time and operate much like the female streetwalkers.
C)About one-quarter identify as being heterosexual.
D)About one-quarter identify as being gay or bisexual.

Question 47

________ refers to sexually arousing literature,films,and other media in general,while _________ refers to literature,films and other media deemed offensive to accepted standards of literature.

A)Erotica;pornography
B)Pornography;obscenity
C)Soft-core pornography;hard-core pornography
D)Pornography;erotica

Question 48

______ have argued that some kinds of pornography should be made illegal.

A)Fundamentalists and civil liberties groups
B)Feminists and civil liberties groups
C)Civil liberties groups
D)Fundamentalists and feminists

Question 49

The term _____________ refers to sexually arousing material that is not degrading or demeaning to children,women,or men.

A)erotica
B)obscenity
C)pornography
D)porneia

Question 50

Sex tourism may be described as

A)a vital part of the economy in many countries.
B)a major reason U.S.men visit Canada.
C)the best way to limit sexual exploitation of children.
D)the most common employment for students working abroaD.

Question 51

Male sex workers who work for escort services which have women clientele

A)are exposed to just as risky conditions as female sex workers.
B)work on an out-call basis often providing more than just sexual gratification.
C)are often called "chickens" in the business.
D)are often called "kept boys" in the business.

Question 52

What do sex workers mean by a "bad trick"?

A)a really sick sex act they get asked to do
B)a no-show customer
C)a violent customer
D)a really old wrinkled up customer

Question 53

When we talk about something being erotic,

A)we are referring to something that is sexually arousing.
B)it is possible that some people will view it as being pornographic.
C)we mean that such sexually arousing material is not demeaning to children,men or women.
D)All of these choices are correct.

Question 54

Male sex workers who serve a male clientele are called

A)hustlers
B)gigolos
C)bar girls
D)roosters

Question 55

It appears that the main reason males engage in being a sex worker is

A)for the money.
B)because this is an easy way to make homosexual contacts while young.
C)that it is an extension of other criminal activities.
D)for the thrill of the forbidden because most are part-time hustlers and use the sexual activity for a diversion from their regular life as students.

Question 56

A gigolo is most similar to which type of female sex worker?

A)streetwalker
B)brothel prostitute
C)masseuse
D)escort

Question 57

Which of the following is TRUE regarding transgender sex workers?

A)They are more like male sex workers than like female sex workers.
B)Transgender people quit being sex workers when they have enough money for hormone treatments.
C)Many transgender sex workers hide the fact that they are transgender to their clients.
D)Transgender sex work is illegal in Canada.

Question 58

Whereas _______ service a heterosexual clientele,_________ cater to a homosexual clientele.

A)gigolos;hustlers
B)hustlers;chickens
C)chickens;gigolos
D)hustlers;gigolos

Question 59

The term ________ is used to describe any publication that has as a dominant feature the undue exploitation of sex.

A)violent pornography
B)pornography
C)erotica
D)obscenity

Question 60

Brad and Sunny took a vacation to Holland to get away for a while.While they were there,they partied in the red-light district and Brad paid for a lap dance at one of the window storefronts.Amy and Jennifer also went on a vacation together to Cuba.While there,Jennifer met a good-looking Cuban man who taught her to salsa,extended her many compliments,and accompanied her to dinner.Since the Cuban man would not be allowed on the resort without a room,Jennifer charged everything to her room.On her last night there,the Cuban man took Jennifer to a secluded beach where they had sex under the moon all night long.In what way are Brad and Jennifer's vacation experiences similar?

A)Jennifer and Brad acted in gender-stereotyped ways.
B)Brad and Jennifer's experiences were not similar.
C)Both Brad and Jennifer engaged in sex tourism.
D)Brad and Jennifer both left their friends during a vacation for selfish reasons.

Question 61

The amount of economic profit in pornographic magazines is

A)minimal.
B)average as compared to other businesses not related to sex,such as grocery stores of about 4-5 percent.
C)more than average as compared to most businesses with markups common at 20-30%.
D)quite large and markups can be as high as 600 percent.

Question 62

Which one of the following films first made it clear that there were big profits to be made from hard-core films?

A)I Am Curious,Yellow
B)Debbie Does Dallas
C)Deep Throat
D)Kinky Ladies of Bourbon Street

Question 63

Telephone sex

A)users are primarily female.
B)users are primarily male.
C)workers are about equally divided between females and males.
D)users' favourite messages are fantasies of them,the callers,dominating the phone sex worker in some type of bondage activity.

Question 64

In 1998,it was estimated that ____ hard-core and X-rated videos are rented each day in Ontario.

A)100,000
B)38,000
C)15,000
D)10,000

Question 65

For this sexual interaction,the customer is typically charged by the minute.

A)massage
B)telephone sex
C)video rental
D)live sex shows

Question 66

These Internet groups provide a location where individuals can meet and carry on live conversations electronically:

A)news groups
B)commercial bulletin boards
C)chat rooms
D)3-D rooms

Question 67

What is the difference between how soft-core pornographic magazines and hard-core pornographic magazines depict women?

A)Soft-core portray women as sex objects;hard-core often blatantly degrade women.
B)There are few differences;women are objectified in both.
C)Soft-core depict men as sex objects,not women;hard-core depict women as sex objects,not men.
D)Hard-core magazines may include everything from vaginal intercourse to sex with animals while soft-core magazines do not.

Question 68

From a legal point of view,child pornography is viewed as the reprehensible part of the pornography industry because

A)children cannot give their informed consent to participate in sexual activities.
B)the potential for making profit is great.
C)children and their parents are often not paid for their services.
D)children are natural and unspoileD.

Question 69

What percentage of transgender sex workers never or rarely told their customers that they were male?

A)more than 15%
B)more than 25%
C)more than 35%
D)more than 50%

Question 70

Electronic porn

A)basically prevents a person from becoming addicted to this type of sexual content because a person is usually in her/his own home and thus safe.
B)has minimal effect because it is not face-to-face social interaction.
C)is safe from being accessed by children.
D)has an "honour system" which is not an effective control over illegal and underage access of the particular website.

Question 71

A typical male X-rated actor earns as little as ________ per video.

A)$50
B)$500
C)$5,000
D)$50,000

Question 72

In this type of activity of the sex industry,performers do stage shows,table dances and lap dances.

A)live sex shows
B)chat rooms
C)massage
D)electronic pornography

Question 73

Hyde,DeLamater,and Byers suggest a solution to the problems that pornography may cause individuals and society.Their suggestion is

A)education.
B)more legal restrictions on all types of pornography.
C)to concentrate on legally restricting the access of children to sexually explicit material.
D)to make the pornography more realistic and life-like.

Question 74

This Internet media often consists of messages that are advertisements for or links to sex-oriented websites which sell pornographic material:

A)news groups
B)commercial bulletin boards
C)nude rooms
D)3-D rooms

Question 75

A hard-core pornographic movie,_________,was produced in the early 1970s that made a great deal of money and appealed to many in the middle class.This movie was one that gave impetus to the hard-core film and video industry today.

A)The Godfather
B)Gold Things
C)Debbie Does Dallas
D)Deep Throat

Question 76

It was possible to view a sexually explicit film as early as

A)1825
B)1915
C)1945
D)1960

Question 77

Loops are

A)live sex shows with humans linked to animals
B)female sex rings which act as sex predators with the criterion that they must have sex with a virgin to belong
C)a type of sex toy that clamps around the penis to make erections last longer
D)short hard-core sex films

Question 78

On the Internet,these locations contain sexually explicit photographs in digital form that can be bought and downloaded:

A)news groups
B)commercial bulletin boards
C)nude rooms
D)3-D rooms

Question 79

Under Canadian law,which one of the following is considered to be obscene in a film?

A)Orgy scenes
B)Anal sex
C)Sex with violence
D)Male ejaculating

Question 80

According to your text,the adult Bulletin Board System (BBS)market is driven largely by demand for

A)paraphilic and pedophilic imagery.
B)hard-core images of sex between heterosexuals.
C)hard-core images of sex between homosexuals.
D)images of women with large breasts.