New Girl Research Paper

With television and media sex is really prevalent and seems to be portrayed as the “cool” thing to do.Love,sex and relationships becomes the forefront of what media is about leaving all else to fall back teaching values of how sex is what defines you and relationships should be more perishable than sustainable on rare occasions is anything beneficial or an positive image.In most cases media is saying If you're not having sex or are not in and out of relationships then you aren't living which I find very shallow.Ultimately media is having great influences over teens sexual behavior and mind process.
Whenever you watch a tv show about love or anything in media about love you don't often see a healthy portrayal of it.There's always drama behind …show more content…
In the show New Girl we see that many of these messages are shown.First the two girls are out looking for cute guys to spend the night with see an opportunity with a party and end up at sleeping with the men or so it's portrayed that way.But in all actuality they didn't have sex at all.Yet they are afraid to admit to each other that they didn't have sex because thats not “cool”.When they leave they speak to each other commenting that they shouldn’t have to go through the “walk of shame”.Near the end where we see that you should have many relationships,and that they are perishable is when she’s with her ex boyfriend and the guy she just slept with the other night.Showing its okay for that to happen and that relationships are not of much value.This is more established in this generation's culture more than it has ever been throughout any other.The article Young teens and sex covers this perfectly with the poll’s of the teens themselves.”If you count everybody in the seventh and eighth grade most are virgins but make up lies and stories to fit in because not having sex isn't cool.”(Young Teens and …show more content…
here are some of the findings “Teens who watch a lot of television with sexual content are more likely to initiate sexual intercourse in the following year.”(RAND)Yet some good could come from it because in the research RAND reported that “Portraying the risks of sex in television shows appears to help educate teens about the potential consequences of sexual behavior.”(RAND)It's clear that media has a grip on young teens and has established itself a root foundation for teachings of sex,love and relationships, whether positive or negative media has a definite affect on teens sexual decision making thought process and