Teenagers and Electronic Media
Teenagers tend to spend six to seven hours a day on some form of media such as television, music, movies, magazines, the internet, and smart cell phones (Brown). Over time these forms of media have changed. Nowadays they all portray some sort of sexual manner. This has both positive and negative impacts on teens. Here you will read about the usage, content, and effects on teens today.
The internet provides a “safe haven” or in other words, another world for teens to explore and define themselves as sexual beings. Research done by Jane D. Brown, Susannah Stern, and Sarah Keller have shown that 30 percent of females and 50 to70 percent of males between the ages of twelve and fourteen have viewed some sort of sexual …show more content…
One that includes the content teenagers have access to such as the internet, television, movies, and smart cell phones does not include the possible risk factors or the responsibility of early on unprotected sexual behaviors. Exposure to these things makes teens curious and/or thinks it is okay to have unprotected sexual behaviors, which is not true.
Youths who viewed the greatest amounts of sexual content were two times more likely than those who viewed the smallest amount to initiate sexual intercourse during the following year (see figure) or to progress to more-advanced levels of other sexual behaviors (Site-Wide Navigation). Exposure to sexual content such as touching, kissing, sexual ideas, sexual desires or actual sexual activities result in sexual outcomes ranging from body dissatisfaction to earlier sexual intercourse, less contraceptive usage, and will even result in …show more content…
If they don’t feel like they can talk to their parents they will talk to others. Others that might make them think what they see on television or the internet is okay. This makes communication very little between parents and their kids. Parents need to be more aware of what is going on in their child’s life especially at this age where sex is everywhere. They will not know any better if the parents aren’t warning them. I fell like parents need to make ware for their children to know the consequences of becoming sexually active for what they see online. Because the stuff they see online does not include the risk factors of being sexually active. Plus they are not aware that some of the stuff they may be doing is
Teenagers tend to spend six to seven hours a day on some form of media such as television, music, movies, magazines, the internet, and smart cell phones (Brown). Over time these forms of media have changed. Nowadays they all portray some sort of sexual manner. This has both positive and negative impacts on teens. Here you will read about the usage, content, and effects on teens today.
The internet provides a “safe haven” or in other words, another world for teens to explore and define themselves as sexual beings. Research done by Jane D. Brown, Susannah Stern, and Sarah Keller have shown that 30 percent of females and 50 to70 percent of males between the ages of twelve and fourteen have viewed some sort of sexual …show more content…
One that includes the content teenagers have access to such as the internet, television, movies, and smart cell phones does not include the possible risk factors or the responsibility of early on unprotected sexual behaviors. Exposure to these things makes teens curious and/or thinks it is okay to have unprotected sexual behaviors, which is not true.
Youths who viewed the greatest amounts of sexual content were two times more likely than those who viewed the smallest amount to initiate sexual intercourse during the following year (see figure) or to progress to more-advanced levels of other sexual behaviors (Site-Wide Navigation). Exposure to sexual content such as touching, kissing, sexual ideas, sexual desires or actual sexual activities result in sexual outcomes ranging from body dissatisfaction to earlier sexual intercourse, less contraceptive usage, and will even result in …show more content…
If they don’t feel like they can talk to their parents they will talk to others. Others that might make them think what they see on television or the internet is okay. This makes communication very little between parents and their kids. Parents need to be more aware of what is going on in their child’s life especially at this age where sex is everywhere. They will not know any better if the parents aren’t warning them. I fell like parents need to make ware for their children to know the consequences of becoming sexually active for what they see online. Because the stuff they see online does not include the risk factors of being sexually active. Plus they are not aware that some of the stuff they may be doing is