Deck 9: A: Sexualities

Question 1

Bisexual women face particular marginalization within gay and lesbian communities.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Essentialist theorists challenge the assumption that the primary purpose of sex is procreation.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Gay marriages are now legal in Canada.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Monogamous forms of relationships correspond more closely with our natures and as such tend to be the nearly universally preferred form of human union.

Question 5

The heterosexual questionnaire was designed by queer theorists to challenge heteronormativity.

Question 6

Canada reports no deaths attributed to transphobia while the United States reports 234.

Question 7

Women find it more difficult than men to negotiate safer sex because of the expectation that they are passive.

Question 8

Discourses of promiscuity are highly disciplinary,thereby working to regulate our sexualities.

Question 9

Capitalism helped to separate sexuality from procreation.

Question 10

In the 1950s the United States implemented a ban on hiring gay and lesbians.

Question 11

Heterosexuality means the same thing to all people.

Question 12

Post-structuralists argue that sex is natural and exists within the human body.

Question 13

From an essentialist perspective,sexuality functions throughout our lives as the intrinsic "property" of the individual.

Question 14

Heterosexism refers to the practice of holding up the idea that people can be attracted to any sex without being considered abnormal or deviant.

Question 15

Viagra ads tend to disrupt dominant constructions of masculinity.