A classroom exercise that can help students focus on the difficulties in defining normal sexual behavior is described. First, students complete a 30-item questionnaire on which they indicate whether or not a variety of behaviors are normal. Then, they meet in groups and construct a definition of “normal” sexual behavior. Class discussion centers on the difficulty of constructing these definitions.
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