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The effect of the sexual counterrevolution was

A) to keep sex only within marriage.
B) to encourage people to limit their number of sexual partners or,in some cases,to abstain from sex entirely.
C) to finally close the historical "double standard."
D) to discourage the use of birth control technology.

E) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

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When did the sexual revolution begin?

A) It began during the colonial era.
B) It began during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
C) It began in the 1940s and then grew quickly in the late 1960s.
D) It began about 1980.

E) C) and D)
F) B) and D)

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Which concept refers to humans who have some combination of female and male sexual characteristics?

The more global our view of sexuality

The symbolic-interaction approach highlights the various meanings people attach to sexuality.

Standards of human beauty are the same for people everywhere in the world.

If you often have the feeling of being "trapped in the wrong body," you might be

Although some people think rape simply reflects a desire for sex,it is an expression of power.

The existence of a category of people in Mexico called Muxes shows us that there can be more than two gender categories.

Primary sex characteristics refer to reproductive organs.

In 2012,about what percentage of U.S.adults claimed homosexuality is "always wrong" or "almost always wrong"?

There are few areas of life in which sexuality does not play some part.

Homosexuality and heterosexuality are mutually exclusive,meaning that all people fall into one category or the other.

Transgender is a concept that refers to people who conform to the gender patterns that a society defines as conventional for one sex or the other.

About ______ of men and _____ of women in the United States define themselves as "partly" or "entirely" homosexual.

U.S.culture discouraged open discussion of sexuality,so researchers did not begin to study sexuality until the middle of the twentieth century.

The structural-functional approach highlights patterns of inequality that are linked to sexuality.

There was no distinct category of "homosexual" people until about a century ago.

Survey research shows that,even though the public remains divided on the issue,U.S.society is more accepting of premarital sex today than it was a generation ago.

Sexual attraction to people of both sexes is called