What effects do sexual abuse and incest have on a child?
What will be an ideal response?
Adults who were sexually abused as children display more depression, anxiety, eating disorders, alcohol and drug dependence, negative feelings about sex, and difficulty forming safe, stable romantic relationships. The risk of these difficulties is greater if attempted or completed intercourse occurred, if the abuse was by a relative, and if the victim told someone and received a negative response from that person. Adult survivors of child sexual abuse are also more likely to experience sexual disorders such as fears of sex, lack of sexual desire, and lack of arousal. Woman who were sexually abused as children are also more likely to be preoccupied with sex, younger at the time of their first voluntary intercourse, and more likely to be teen mothers. Their sexuality is ambivalent-they experience both sexual aversion and preoccupation with sex.
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According to anthropologist Helen Fisher, the brains of those in love secrete a "cuddle chemical" known as __________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Masters and Johnson were unique from other sexologists because they
a. studied physiological responses b. studied psychological responses c. took representative samples d. considered their work scientific
Which of the following is true in the context of intersexuality?
A. It refers to human beings whose biological sex cannot be classified as either male or female. B. All fetuses go through these multiple processes of sexual differentiation. C. Intersexuality may result when sexual differentiation follows a typical path. D. It results when the fetus has anatomy that is either female or male. E. Intersexuality occurs at the chromosomal level, but not at the gonadal level.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of male sterilization?
What will be an ideal response?