Question 1

When a person has conflicting emotions regarding the decision to become a prostitute, it is called __________.

Accepted Answer

Role ambivalence refers to having mixed or conflicting feelings about a particular role, such as the decision to become a prostitute.

Question 2

Rochelle is a prostitute. She can be found hailing passing cars to meet her clients. She is a __________.

Accepted Answer

Rochelle is described as hailing passing cars to meet her clients, which is characteristic of a streetwalker, a type of prostitute who solicits clients in public places.

Question 3

Sally feels both attracted to and repulsed by prostitution. She is experiencing __________.

Accepted Answer

Sally is experiencing role ambivalence, which refers to having mixed feelings or contradictory attitudes towards a particular role or situation, such as feeling both attracted to and repulsed by prostitution.

Question 4

How many stages does the process involved in becoming a prostitute have?

Accepted Answer

The process typically involves three stages: recruitment, initiation, and habituation.

Question 5

What is the first stage involved in becoming a prostitute?

Accepted Answer

Drift is the initial stage where individuals begin to explore and experiment with the idea of engaging in prostitution, often without a firm commitment or identity as a sex worker.

Question 6

Prostitutes gather in public settings. For female prostitutes, these are known as red light districts. What is the equivalent for males?

Accepted Answer

The term "meat racks" is often used to describe areas where male prostitutes gather, similar to how "red light districts" are associated with female prostitutes.

Question 7

Amelia is a prostitute. She tells herself that what she is doing is normal. This reflects which stage?

Accepted Answer

The transitional deviance stage is when individuals rationalize their deviant behavior as normal, which aligns with Amelia's self-justification.

Question 8

Ophelia is a prostitute and she identifies herself as such. Ophelia is in the __________.

Accepted Answer

Ophelia is in the professionalization stage because she identifies herself as a prostitute, indicating she has accepted and embraced her role in this occupation.

Question 9

Laurie started having sex when she was 11 years old. Now that she is 16, she is beginning to spend more and more time with boys who have drugs. She gets high with them and they provide her with drugs. Laurie's choices are channeling her toward prostitution. Laurie is in the __________.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Laurie started having sex when she was...

Question 10

Male prostitutes have a hierarchy. At the bottom are street hustlers, in the middle are bar hustlers, and at the top are escort prostitutes who work for dating agencies. At each level, the charge per trick increases and the prestige goes up. What best characterizes this hierarchy relative to that of female prostitutes?

Accepted Answer

The hierarchy described for male prostitutes is similar to that of female prostitutes, where street workers are at the bottom, and escorts or those working through agencies are at the top, with increasing charges and prestige.

Question 11

Wesley was suspended from school for having a picture of a naked woman in his locker. The principal of the school noted that the picture was filthy and immoral. By the principal's standard, the picture represented __________.

Accepted Answer

The principal described the picture as filthy and immoral, which aligns with the definition of pornography, as it typically refers to explicit material intended to cause sexual arousal.

Question 12

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that it is legal to possess computer-generated images of children in sex acts in the case of __________.

Accepted Answer

The U.S. Supreme Court in Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition ruled that the Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996 was overly broad and violated the First Amendment, as it criminalized computer-generated images that did not involve real children.

Question 13

Which perspective asserts that definitions of appropriate sexual behavior will always be in flux because, until people attach meaning to something, words are merely sounds and human acts merely behavior, neither appropriate nor inappropriate?

Accepted Answer

The symbolic interactionist perspective focuses on the meanings and definitions that people attach to objects, events, and behaviors, suggesting that these meanings are socially constructed and can change over time.

Question 14

The National Commission on Obscenity and Pornography concluded that pornography __________.

Accepted Answer

The answer of The National Commission on Obscenity and Pornography...

Question 15

To study the impact of pornography, President Ronald Reagan appointed __________.

Accepted Answer

President Ronald Reagan appointed the Meese Commission, officially known as the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography, in 1985 to study the impact of pornography.

Question 16

The Meese Commission concluded that pornography poses a serious threat to __________.

Accepted Answer

The answer of The Meese Commission concluded that pornography poses...

Question 17

Just because two things happen at the same time does not necessarily mean that one of them caused the other one to occur. The axiom that explains this statement is __________.

Accepted Answer

The statement "correlation does not equal causation" explains that just because two events occur simultaneously, it does not mean one caused the other.

Question 18

Although many children who were sexually abused become prostitutes, not all sexually abused children enter this profession. As such, the relationship between sexual abuse and prostitution involves __________.

Accepted Answer

Correlation is a statistical relationship between two variables, in which the change in one variable is associated with a change in the other variable. In this case, the relationship between sexual abuse and prostitution is correlational, as the presence of one variable (sexual abuse) is associated with an increased likelihood of the other variable (prostitution).

Question 19

In Denmark and Japan, what happened when they made the sale of hard-core pornography legal?

Accepted Answer

In Denmark and Japan, the legalization of hard-core pornography was associated with a drop in sex crimes against children, suggesting a potential outlet effect.

Question 20

Vivian views pornography as a sin and immoral. Which point of view does she represent?

Accepted Answer

Vivian's view of pornography as a sin and immoral aligns with the religious conservative perspective, which often holds traditional moral values and views certain behaviors as sinful.

Quiz 3: Social Problems Related to Sexual Behavior