Sexual Health Education
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Course Introduction
Sexual Health Education explores the biological, psychological, social, and cultural dimensions of human sexuality. This course provides students with comprehensive information about sexual development, reproductive health, contraception, sexually transmitted infections, healthy relationships, consent, and communication skills. Emphasizing inclusivity, respect, and evidence-based knowledge, the course seeks to empower individuals to make informed decisions regarding their sexual health and well-being. Ethical considerations, public health perspectives, and the impact of sexuality on overall quality of life are also examined, preparing students to navigate and advocate for sexual health in personal and professional contexts.
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Sexuality Now Embracing Diversity 5th Edition by Janell L. Carroll
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Chapter 1: Exploring Human Sexuality: Past and Present
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Q1) How did the arrival of the medical model of sexuality at the end of the 19th century impact views of sexuality in the United States?
A) Physicians advocated for self-restraint and abstention from masturbation.
B) Physicians encouraged divorce for unhappy marriages.
C) Physicians urged men and women to masturbate to relieve sexual tensions.
D) Physicians viewed sexual passion as normal and healthy, especially for women.
Answer: A
Q2) If I held the belief that marriage and sexual relations are a way to improve my economic and social standing and passion at the start of my marriage is not necessary, what ancient culture would I most likely belong to?
A) Greek
B) Roman
C) Hebrew
D) All of the above
Answer: B
Q3) Sexuality is considered a uniquely human trait.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Understanding Human Sexuality: Theory and Research
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Q1) What was the religious background of many of the early sexuality researchers?
A) Islam
B) Jewish
C) Christian
D) Agnostic
Answer: B
Q2) According to sociological theory, what is the first factor that influences our values about what is sexually right or wrong?
A) Peer pressure
B) Family
C) Cultural expectations
D) Media
Answer: B
Q3) Findings from the 2010 National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior found that the majority of adult men and women engage in one or two sexual behaviors during the majority of their sexual interactions.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Communication and Sexuality
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Q1) What does the author of your textbook suggest is responsible for the level of body dissatisfaction in the United States?
A) Education
B) Gender roles
C) The media
D) Family expectations
Answer: C
Q2) What category/style of communication skills do people tend to prefer when they want to discuss strategies or learn more about a topic?
A) Affectively-oriented
B) Status-oriented
C) Instrumentally-oriented
D) Network-oriented
Answer: C
Q3) When we want to project an image with our message, we are focusing on the goal of getting the job done.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Gender Development, Gender Roles, and
Gender Identity
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Q1) What is the best treatment for Turner's syndrome?
A) Administration of testosterone during puberty
B) Administration of estrogen and progesterone during puberty
C) Administration of androgens at birth
D) There is no known treatment for Turner's syndrome at this time.
Q2) Using terms referred to in your textbook, discuss how sex and gender influence people's interactions and relationships with each other.
Q3) What is a common criticism of social learning theory?
A) Children are seen as passive in the way they acquire gendered models of behavior.
B) There is not enough emphasis on how social factors influence a child's socialization.
C) There is too much focus on the child's developmental stages.
D) All of these
Q4) In typical development, if the male contributes a Y chromosome, the child will be male.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Define androgyny and give two examples of androgynous behavior.
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Q6) How do gender roles affect satisfaction with life in the senior years?
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Chapter 5: Female Sexual Anatomy and Physiology
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Q1) What factor is often related to the onset of puberty for females?
A) Age at first intercourse
B) Height
C) Weight
D) All of these
Q2) Current recommendations suggest routine Pap smears beginning at the age of 17 years.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Sara is experiencing vaginal burning and rawness along with a sometimes stabbing pain in the vaginal area. Although her gynecologist has been unable to identify a specific cause, what is the most likely diagnosis?
A) Uterine fibroids
B) Toxic shock syndrome
C) Urinary tract infection
D) Vulvodynia
Q4) The uterus is the female's most important producer of female sex hormones.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Identify and discuss the functions of three external female sexual organs.
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Chapter 6: Male Sexual Anatomy and Physiology
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Q1) From an evolutionary perspective, what was the function of the coronal ridge of the penis?
A) To protect the shaft of the penis
B) To push other men's sperm out to increase chances of fathering a child
C) To create sensations that will enhance orgasm for sexual partner
D) To hold more volume of sperm to increase chances of impregnation
Q2) The penis is made up of many small muscles attached to a piece of flexible cartilage.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What structure releases gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH), signaling the physiological start of puberty in boys?
A) The hypothalamus
B) The prostate gland
C) The testicles
D) The Cowper's gland
Q4) Males experience andropause at a much earlier age than females experience menopause.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Love and Intimacy
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Q1) There is a strong correlation between a person's childhood attachment style and how he/she relates to future intimate relationships.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What have love researchers determined about the role of one's mother and father in the development of healthy, intimate relationships?
A) Those who do not experience intimacy growing up will not experience it as adults.
B) People who did not experience intimacy growing up can experience it as adults.
C) Childhood intimacy is not related to adult intimacy.
D) None of these
Q3) "I feel very possessive about _____" is an example from which part of Rubin's Love Scale?
A) Needing
B) Trusting
C) Affection
D) Passion
Q4) Identify and describe each of John Alan Lee's colors of love.
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Chapter 8: Childhood and Adolescent Sexuality
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Q1) What best describes genital self-stimulation and infants?
A) During infancy genital touching is virtually unknown.
B) Genital touching during infancy is uncommon and should be considered a warning sign of potential psychosexual disorders.
C) During infancy genital touching is uncommon and not correlated with future sexual problems when it does occur.
D) Genital touching during infancy is common and should not be discouraged.
Q2) What is the average age for American students' first sexual intercourse?
A) 14
B) 15
C) 16
D) 17
Q3) Identify the three social factors discussed in your text that influence teens' sexuality. For each, give an explanation of how it influences teens and a specific research finding for that influence.
Q4) According to the most recent sexuality studies, oral sex among teens has increased.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Adult Sexual Relationships
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Q1) What is one of the reasons given in your text for why current research on cohabitating couples may be skewed?
A) Couples are often ashamed to admit to living in premarital relationships.
B) We lack adequate relationship labels to define different "forms" of living together.
C) The Census survey does not include a category for people to indicate when they live together but are not married.
D) Only couples who live together and also have children are labeled as cohabitating in the Census data.
Q2) If you want to cohabitate with your partner, which country would be your best choice?
A) Spain
B) Norway
C) Italy
D) China
Q3) In 2009, the number of unmarried women outnumbered the number of married women for the first time in U.S. history.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Sexual Expression
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Q1) What best describes the role of testosterone in sexual behavior?
A) Important for male sexual behavior
B) Important for female sexual behavior
C) Important for both male and female sexual behavior
D) Not related to sexual behavior
Q2) Which stage of the sexual response cycle is characterized by blood leaving the genitals, erection disappearing, muscles relaxing, and breathing and heart rate returning to normal?
A) Plateau
B) Refraction
C) Orgasm
D) Resolution
Q3) Identify and describe the four stages of Masters and Johnson's male sexual response cycle and explain what happens for men at each stage.
Q4) Write a sexual fantasy that would be common for women and then, referring to information provided in your textbook, explain why it is typical of women's fantasies.
Q5) Transudation is another word for erection.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Sexual Orientation
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Q1) What can be concluded about reparative therapy?
A) Research has found that in time, it is possible to change sexual orientation in about 80% of patients.
B) Reparative therapy may do more harm than good.
C) It is recommended by the American Psychological Association.
D) Although sexual orientation may not change, many patients report being happier as a result of the therapy.
Q2) What is sequential bisexuality?
A) Having sexual partners of both sexes during the same period
B) Having sex exclusively with one gender followed by sex exclusively with the other
C) Identifies those who were in long-term heterosexual relationships before coming out as homosexual
D) Individuals (primarily men) who are married and have homosexual sexual relationships on the side
Q3) The age of first awareness of sexual orientation is typically within 1-2 years of when a person chooses to come out to others.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Pregnancy and Birth
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Q1) When a couple is experiencing fertility problems, most often the problems can be traced back to:
A) Problems associated with just one of the partners.
B) A combined problem between both partners.
C) Unknown causes.
D) Psychological causes in the female partner.
Q2) Which of the following is NOT a process that facilitates conception?
A) Female sexual desire peaks at ovulation until just before menstruation.
B) A mucus plug appears in the cervix to trap sperm.
C) Cervical mucus becomes thinner and stretchy.
D) Female orgasm helps draw semen into the uterus.
Q3) What is a common sign of early pregnancy?
A) Tender breasts
B) More frequent bowel movements
C) Increased libido
D) A feeling of stretching of the skin in the abdominal region
Q4) Identify the three stages of birth and explain what happens at each stage. Generally, how long does each stage last?
Q5) Identify four signs of pregnancy, and explain why they occur.
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Chapter 13: Contraception and Abortion
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Q1) How does the amount of hormone released through the NuvaRing compare to other hormonal contraceptive methods?
A) The NuvaRing releases higher levels of both progesterone and estrogen compared to other hormonal methods.
B) The NuvaRing offers about equal levels of hormones compared to other hormonal methods.
C) The NuvaRing releases lower levels of hormones compared to other hormonal methods.
D) The NuvaRing does not release any hormones into the body as it protects against pregnancy by acting as a cervical barrier.
Q2) Abortion has been practiced throughout history. In fact, Aristotle viewed abortion as a backup to contraception. When did he believe life begins?
A) At the moment of conception
B) When crucial organs were formed, which was different for males and females
C) When the mother felt the baby move
D) At the moment of birth
Q3) Describe three different characteristics that are at the foundation of natural family planning.
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Chapter 14: Challenges to Sexual Functioning
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Q1) Patients tend to prefer the drug Cialis over Viagra because Cialis has a longer duration.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Danielle experiences involuntary contractions of the muscle that surrounds the entrance to the vagina. This happens when her partner is trying to penetrate her with his penis or using his fingers for stimulation, when she masturbates or uses a tampon, and during pelvic exams at the doctor's office. What is a likely diagnosis for Danielle?
A) Hypoactive sexual desire
B) Vaginismus
C) Vulvodynia
D) Dyspareunia
Q3) Women with orgasmic disorders tend to report lower levels of emotional closeness with their partners.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Genital pain associated with sexual behavior is referred to as dyspareunia.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Sexually Transmitted Infections and Hivaids
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Q1) What is true regarding the use of topical medications to manage HSV symptoms?
A) They shorten the duration of outbreaks and reduce recurrences of future outbreaks.
B) They kill the bacteria associated with herpes, but usually do not cure it.
C) They reduce the outbreaks and cure it in about 50% of the cases.
D) They have been shown to have little benefit.
Q2) What are common causes and long term effects of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID)?
Q3) Someone who is HIV positive might initially experience flu like symptoms, followed by a period of time with no obvious symptoms. The seriousness of the disease becomes apparent only after more severe symptoms develop. What other STI has a similar pattern of symptomology?
A) Herpes
B) Chlamydia
C) Syphilis
D) Trichimoniasis
Q4) People infected with herpes will have it for the rest of their lives, even though they may not experience any symptoms.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Varieties of Sexual Expression
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Q1) People with fetishes are typically more open about their sexuality than people without a fetish.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What is significant about Megan's Law?
A) It mandates that every community have access to information about sex offenders living there.
B) It provides funds for community watch programs designed to discourage pedophiles.
C) It limits the kind of work that a sex offender can participate in.
D) It sets mandatory sentencing guidelines for perpetrators of childhood sexual abuse.
Q3) Similar standards are used in how society interprets exhibitionist behavior across genders.
A)True
B)False
Q4) All people who sexually abuse children are also considered pedophiles.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Identify and explain three common motivations for paraphiliac behaviors.
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Chapter 17: Power and Coercion
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Q1) Related to intimate partner violence (IPV) within same-sex couples, what do we know?
A) Rates of IPV in lesbian relationships occur at about the same rate as in heterosexual relationships.
B) Rates of IPV are the lowest in lesbian relationships.
C) Men in same-sex relationships are more likely to seek help when experiencing IPV.
D) No differences have been found related to IPV in same-sex relationships compared to IPV in male-female relationships.
Q2) Discuss factors that would impact the experiencesof lesbian women who are raped.
Q3) What recognized psychological disorder is most often compared to rape trauma syndrome?
A) Anxiety disorder
B) Agoraphobia disorder
C) Disassociative personality disorder
D) Posttraumatic stress disorder
Q4) Describe the role of alcohol related to rape on college campuses, including information about the prevalence of rape and attitudes about rape.
Q5) Explain 3 factors that describe why there is no single definition of rape.
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Chapter 18: Sexuality in the Media and the Arts
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Q1) What type of sex work is least likely to result in arrest?
A) Streetwalking
B) Hustling
C) Escort services
D) Club/bar services
Q2) What is the main motivation for becoming a sex worker?
A) High sex drive
B) Economic
C) Sexual and economic
D) Drug addiction
Q3) Why were the ancient erotic materials found in the ruins of Pompeii known to only a few for so many years?
A) Early discoverers of Pompeii hid the evidence.
B) The erotic visual images were largely symbolic.
C) They were lost when a ship carrying them sank at sea.
D) They were written about in a language only recently translated.
Q4) What are some things the U.S. government is doing to help protect victims of trafficking? Be sure to cite specific information from your text.
Q5) Identify the pros and cons of legalized sex work.
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