5. Bearman and Bruckner's analysis of data from over 90,000 students showed that pledges were least effective for younger students. Virginity pledges are most effective when a significant proportion of students at a school takes the pledge. When virginity pledgers did have heterosexual intercourse, they were far less likely to use contraception. About 90% of students taking a virginity pledge stayed virgins until age 20.
6. Which group appears to have the highest rates of long-term committed relationships?
- Gay men
- Hetero men
- Lesbians
7. Heteronormativity refers to:
- The ongoing nature versus nurture debate about heterosexuality
- The ways that children are shaped by peers during early socialization
- The way that sociology has approached sexuality since the Enlightenment period
- The multiple ways that heterosexuality structures our everyday world
8. ___ refers to a set of institutionally based practices in which gay men and lesbians encounter inequality throughout society.
- Homophobia
- Homosexism
- Heteronormism
- Heterosexism
9. Which of the following represents an example of heterosexism?
- The Civil Rights Act of 1965
- Popularity of the television show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
- Availability of health benefits only for heterosexual, married couples
- European laws forbidding discrimination against guys
10. Men's bodies and women's bodies are generally treated quite differently in children's movies.
- True
- False