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Courses in Sexology

"The History of Sexology" (Undergraduate course)

Course description | Suggested readings on this site | suggested books | True or False Questions | Multiple Choice Questions

Examination questions:

(in some cases, more than one answer is correct)

1. The first scientific journal devoted entirely to sexual problems was
Zeitschrift für Sexualwissenschaft
Sexual-Probleme
Archivio delle psichopatie sessuali

2. The first Institute for Sexology was opened in

Paris
Bloomington, Indiana
Berlin

3. The World League for Sexual Reform (WLSR) held congresses in

Copenhagen
Berlin
Vienna

4. Albert Moll's International Society for Sex Research held congresses in

London
Berlin
Paris

5. The World Association of Sexology (WAS) has held congresses in

Washington, D.C.
Jerusalem
London

6. Alfred C. Kinsey's fame as a sexologist rests, among other things, on

his sex surveys of human male and female sexual behavior
his founding of an Institute for Sex Research
his interviewing technique

7. Magnus Hirschfeld's fame as a sexologist rests, among other things, on

his publication of the first Journal of Sexology
his founding of the first Institute for Sexology
his organizing the World League for Sexual Reform (WLSR)

8. On his trip around the world, Magnus Hirschfeld visited

Canada
Mexico
Indonesia

9. Magnus Hirschfeld never met the following person(s):

Harry Benjamin
Alfred C. Kinsey
Jawaharlal Nehru

10. The following sexological pioneer(s) edited a handbook of sexology

Max Marcuse
Albert Moll
Magnus Hirschfeld

11. The following sexologists divided the human sexual response into 4 phases:

Albert Moll
Wilhelm Reich
William H. Masters & Virginia Johnson

12. Among the following, name the world-wide organization(s)

International Academy of Sex Research (IASR)
World League for Sexual Reform (WLSR)
Asian Federation for Sexology (AFS)

13. In 19th-century sexlogy, the term "Uranian" meant

someone erotically aroused by urine
a masturbator
a homosexual

14. Statistical sex surveys were conducted by :

Sigmund Freud
Magnus Hirschfeld
Alfred C. Kinsey

15. The concept of transvestism was introduced by

Albert Moll
Magnus Hirschfeld
Harry Benjamin

16. The concept of transsexualism was introduced by

Magnus Hirschfeld
Alfred C. Kinsey
Harry Benjamin

17. The following sexologist(s) did not work at Hirschfeld's institute:

Ludwig Levy-Lenz
Eugen Steinach
Max Marcuse

18. The following was (were) president(s) of the World League for Sexual Reform :

Wilhelm Reich
Havelock Ellis
Auguste Forel

19. René Guyon attacked the following institutions for not defending sexual rights:

the League of Nations
the United Nations
the World Health Organization (WHO)

20. The first sexological society was founded in

Paris
London
Berlin

21. Today, there is a regional sexological association in

Africa
Asia
Latin America

22. The International Academy of Sex Research was founded in

1932
1974
1983

23. The World Association of Sexology (WAS) was founded in

1928
1978
1992

24. The first international sexological congress was held in

1897
1921
1974

25. Alfred C. Kinsey never met

Havelock Ellis
Max Marcuse
Harry Benjamin

26. Iwan Bloch wrote a major work on

the human sexual response
prostitution
the sexual life of the child

27. The following sexological pioneer(s) had no medical training:

Magnus Hirschfeld
Havelock Ellis
Alfred C. Kinsey

28. Wilhelm Reich died in

a Soviet hospital
a Nazi concentration camp
an American prison

29. Magnus Hirschfeld died in

Germany
Israel
France

30. Magnus Hirschfeld gave sexological lectures in

New York
Shanghai
Cairo

31. As a book editor, Albert Moll cooperated with

Sigmund Freud
Magnus Hirschfeld
Havelock Ellis

32. Alfred C. Kinsey believed that homosexuality was

a genetic disorder
a mental disease
a normal variation

33. Indicate which of the following terms never meant "homosexuality":

Uranism
inversion
pygmalionism

34. In the 19th century, the term "tribadism" meant

male sadism
group sex
female homosexuality

35. The fame of Masters & Johnson as sexologists rests on

their laboratory investigations of the human sexual response
their statistical studies of sexual dysfunctions
their development of a new form of sex therapy

36. Richard von Krafft-Ebing coined the expression(s):

sexual sadism
sexual masochism
sexual fetishism

37. For his work, Wilhelm Reich used the ideas of Sigmund Freud and

Magnus Hirschfeld
Albert Moll
Karl Marx

38. Which of the following was not an sexologist?

Bronislaw Malinowski
Ignace Paderewski
Herbert Lewandowki

39. Th. H. van de Velde wrote a sexological bestseller in the 1920's with the title:

Human Sexual Inadequacy
Ideal Marriage
Companionate Marriage

40. The following Italians contributed to the development of sexology:

Pasquale Penta
Paolo Mantegazza
Allessandro Manzoni

41. The following Americans contributed to the development of sexology:

Margaret Sanger
Anthony Comstock
John Money

42. The following Germans contributed to the development of sexology:

Max Marcuse
Alfred Rosenberg
Ernst Gräfenberg

43. The following European women fought for sexual reform:

Helene Stöcker
Simone de Beauvoir
Alexandra Kollontai

44. The concept of "sexual scripting" was introduced into sexology by

John Money
William H. Masters and Virginia Johnson
William Simon and John Gagnon

45. The Kinsey Institute is now just

over 75 years old
over 50 years old
over 25 years old

46. 19th-century sex research was dominated by the concept(s) of

degeneration
sexual scripting
sexual psychopathology

47. In the early 19th century, Wilhelm von Humboldt planned to write a study of

masturbation
homosexuality
prostitution

48. The distiction between "sex" and "gender" was introduced into sexology by

Alfred C. Kinsey
Harry Benjamin
John Money

49. The "Yearbook of Sexual Intermediate Stages" was devoted to the subject of

sexual psychotherapy
the origin and character of the sex drive
homosexuality

50. The first university institute of sexology was founded at

Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana
Humboldt University in Berlin
Charles University in Prague

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