SEX IN THE MEDIA

Sex, Sex, Sex that’s all you hear about these days. It is everywhere around you whether it is from ads on a magazine or billboard, commercials, TV shows, and movies. Ask yourself this: how has the mass media affected the ways that teens have looked at sex, how it is portrayed, and how they are influenced by it? There are many teenagers that watch TV shows on the CW network and watch shows such as Gossip Girl, 90210, and One Tree Hill and they all portray some sort of sexual activity. A couple of weeks ago on Gossip Girl they even showed a three-some between three of the main characters. What do you think about that?

According to the Washington Post, authors of a journal called American Academy of Pediatrics have found a connection between watching television shows with sexual content such as flirting, making out, sex scenes, becoming sexually active earlier, and sexually explicit music videos has made an increased risk of sexually transmitted diseases and teen pregnancies.

Sexual intercourse has become more frequent over time on television shows, recently occurring in more than 11% of shows, and that more than 64% of television shows contained at least some sexual content (Eyal, Kunkel 163).

Some Videos:

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Article and video on sex in the media and how it affects teens: http://www.connectwithkids.com/tipsheet/2008/412_nov19/thisweek/081119_sex.shtml

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