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Human Sexuality: Diversity in Contemporary America, 4/e

Brian Strong, University of California, Santa Cruz
Barbara Werner Sayad, California State University, Monterey Bay
Christine DeVault, Cabrillo College
William Yarber, Indiana University

Studying Human Sexuality

Fill in the Blank Quiz

Choose the correct term from the list below.

continuum entertainment heterosexuality
normal norms sexual impulses
sexual orientation sexual variation transsexuals
two-spirit


1		Mass media depictions of sexuality provide rather than information.


2		Cultural rules or standards are otherwise called .


3		In some cultures, a person of one sex who identifies with the other sex is called a .


4		Our incitements or inclinations to act sexually are called .


5		In contemporary American culture, the only sexual orientation that receives full-scale legitimacy is .


6		The attraction to sexual partners on the basis of gender-male or female-is commonly known as .


7		Within the United States there are approximately 15,000 individuals whose genitals and identities as men and women are discordant with each other. These individuals are called .


8		Behavior that conforms to a group's average or median patterns of behavior that has nothing to do with moral or psychological deviance is called sexual behavior.


9		Instead of classifying behavior into what are essentially moralistic normal/abnormal and natural/unnatural categories, researchers view human sexuality as characterized by , or diversity.


10		To understand our sexual diversity, researchers believe that the best way to examine sexual behavior is to view our activities as existing on a .

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