Discuss the incidence of child sexual abuse. What are some of the factors that might explain why most of the perpetrators were men and not women?
What will be an ideal response?
According to a meta-analysis of data across 22 countries, 22 percent of women and 8 percent of men had suffered some form of sexual abuse prior to age 18. Many cases are never reported, but it seems clear that child sexual abuse is not rare and that girls, more often than boys, are the victims.
The great majority of perpetrators of child sexual abuse are men. According to the National Health and Social Life Survey (NHSLS), for girls almost all the cases involved sexual contact with men; for boys, some cases involved men and some women, although cases involving men were considerably more common. A number of factors probably account for this. Men in our culture are socialized more toward seeing sexuality as focused on sexual acts rather than as part of an emotional relationship. The sexual script for men involves partners who are smaller and younger than themselves, whereas women's sexual script involves partners who are larger and older than they are.
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In research studies conducted by Masters and Johnson in the 1960s, a comparison of volunteers and randomly-selected participants for sexuality research revealed that _______
a. volunteers were younger in age b. volunteers had a lower income level c. non-volunteers were more sexually permissive d. non-volunteers had more liberal political views
Studies show that infants spend more time looking at attractive faces
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Which is an example of a "panic creator" type of obscene phone call?
a. The phone caller breathes heavily into the phone so that his victim hears him as he masturbates. b. The phone caller calls a crisis center and, while relaying a false story to a female volunteer, masturbates. c. The phone caller pretends he is a graduate student giving a "sexual behavior survey" for a research study and requests that his victim reveal private sexual information about herself as part of the survey. d. The phone caller falsely informs the victim that he is holding someone close to her hostage and that if she wants the hostage freed, she must undress and masturbate.
A scale in which respondents who agree with a statement also agree with milder versions of statements on the same continuum is a
a) Guttman scale. b) Likert scale. c) Expert ranking scale. d) Thurstone scale.