Ch. 14 Variations of Sexual Behavior

Question 1

What is the sociobiological definition of abnormal? What is a weakness of using this definition?

Answer 1

Violates the norms of society

Question 2

What is the statistical definition of abnormal? What is a weakness of using this definition?

Answer 2

A rare approach, does not gives an insight into the psychological or social functioning of the person who engages in the behavior

Question 3

What characterizes a fetishistic disorder?

Answer 3

A person’s sexual fixation on some object other than another human being and attachment of great erotic significance to that

Question 4

What percentage of college men report having engaged in frotteurism?

Answer 4

35%

Question 5

What is asphyxiophilia (also known as hypoxyphilia)?

Answer 5

The desire to induce in oneself a state of oxygen deficiency in oder to create sexual arousal or to enhance excitement and orgasm

Question 6

Why is BDSM “play” very unlikely to cause injury?

Answer 6

Complex social arrangements are made in order to reduce the risk

Question 7

What is asexuality?

Answer 7

Having no sexual attraction to another person

Question 8

What is a masochist?

Answer 8

person who experiences intense sexual arousal from the act of being humiliated