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Chapter 16
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Psychology
Undergraduate 2
11/28/2012

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According to surveys, about _____ of all Americans have seen an x-rated movie or video in the past year.
Definition
1/4
Term
The president's commission of 1970 and subsequent researchers have generally concluded that exposure to nonviolent sexually explicit material has _____ effect on individuals.
Definition
no harmful
Term
Exposure to sexually explicit material with violent themes often results in men becoming _____ toward rape victims, having greater belief in ____, displaying ____ to women, and being more likely to say that they would ______.
Definition
less sympathetic, rape myths, increased hostility, commit rape themselves if they were certain they would not get caught
Term
However, behavioral scientists have concluded that it is the ____ in this material, not the _____, that is potentially harmful.
Definition
depictions of violence toward women, sexual explicitness
Term
What is _____ to one person is pornography to another, and who is to decide where to draw the line?
Definition
erotica
Term
Prostitution is illegal in all parts of the US except for a few counties in _____.
Definition
Nevada
Term
In recent studies, ____% of the male respondents indicated that they had paid for sex on at least one occasion.
Definition
10-23
Term
Female prostitutes can be divided into three types according to status: _____, who solicit in public; brothel prostitutes and ______,and _____ who generally work out o their own apartments.
Definition
streetwalkers, B-girls, call girls
Term
Male prostitutes who cater to homosexuals are called _____
Definition
hustlers
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The primary reason most individuals engage in prostitution is _______
Definition
economics
Term
Most prostitutes were sexually or physically abused as children. Most customers are _____ and _____
Definition
middle-class, married
Term
T/F Most people who become prostitutes do so because of abnormal sexual needs
Definition
false
Term
T/F When exposed to sexually explicit material, most people show an increase in sexual behavior
Definition
false (not in the long term)
Term
T/F the 1970 President's Commission concluded that there was no significant link between exposure of adults to sexually explicit materials and sex crimes
Definition
true
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T/F Prostitution is the only sexual offense for which more women than men are prosecuted
Definition
true
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T/F Erotica and pornography are synonyms and are really the same thing
Definition
false
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T/F When Denmark legalized the sale of hard-core pornographic material to adults, there was a marked decrease is sex crimes afterwards
Definition
true
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T/F People are most aroused by looking at sexually explicit material showing behaviors they regard as normal
Definition
true
Term
T/F HIV infection is uncommon among prostitutes, probably because most have their customers use condoms
Definition
false
Term
T/F nearly all junior high school boys and girls have looked at a sexually explicit magazine
Definition
true
Term
T/F a majority of both men and women are physiologically aroused by sexually explicit material
Definition
true
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T/F there is a substantial evidence that sex offenders have had more exposure to sexually explicit material than have nonoffenders
Definition
false
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T/F exposure to violent sexually explicit material often results in men adopting attitudes that are more supportive of sexual violence against women
Definition
true
Term
T/F Saint Augustine and Saint Thomas Aquinas believed prostitution was necessary
Definition
true
Term
B- Girl
Definition
sally solicits for sex in a downtown bar
Term
brothel prostitute
Definition
susan has sex for money at a legalized house in nevada
Term
call girl
Definition
stephanie works out of her own apartment, and her clients must make an appointment to have sex with her
Term
gigolo
Definition
hank works out of an escort service and is paid by older women to have sex
Term
hustler
Definition
sam accepts money from men on the street who want to have sex with him
Term
john
Definition
joe pays women to give him oral-genital sex.
Term
not a prostitute
Definition
joan has sex with her boss in the hope that it will get her a promotion
Term
pimp
Definition
david takes 75% of the money earned by six women who do tricks on the west side of town
Term
streetwalker
Definition
bonnie solicits men in public
Term
The feature that distinguishes a prostitute from other women who engage in illicit sexual intercourse is the ____ with which she offers herself to men for hire
Definition
lack of discrimination
Term
a hustler is n the same status level as a female ______
Definition
streetwalker
Term
pornography is distinguished from erotica in that it is literature or art with a sexual theme that is considered to be _______
Definition
obscene
Term
recent evidence suggests that it is exposure to ____, rather than just sexual explicitness that results in potentially harmful attitude and behavioral changes
Definition
material portraying violence toward women
Term
In miller v. california, 1973, the supreme court ruled that material was obscene if ____, _____, and ______
Definition
by contemporary community standards it depicts patently offensive sexual conduct, it lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value, and it appeals to prurient interests
Term
The ____ passed in 1873, made the mailing of material considered to be obscene a felony
Definition
Comstock
Term
probably the foremost reason many people use sexually explicit material is that _____
Definition
they enjoy the sexual arousal it produces
Term
with regard to pornography, men and women rate themes in which there is _____ as the most degrading
Definition
active subordination of women
Term
some negative effects of frequent viewing of pornography on the Internet include ______
Definition
view women as sex objects, retain stereotyped views of gender roles more permissive sexual attitudes, lower sexual satisfaction
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