The One Sexual Area Where There May Be a Return

question 41

Multiple Choice

The one sexual area where there may be a return to the norms of the 1970s is in regard to

• A) behaviors such as heavy petting rather than intercourse.
• B) negative attitudes toward premarital intercourse.
• C) positive attitudes toward masturbation and oral-genital sex.
• D) negative attitudes toward promiscuity.

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Definitions:

DBT Perspective

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Ruminative Thinking

A pattern of repetitive and passive focus on one's symptoms of distress and its possible causes and consequences, rather than solutions.

Depression

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