How Does Sexual Content Affect Teens

Television programming with sexual content does have an impact on how teenagers deal with their sexuality. In most programming on today there is sexually explicit content. Teenagers tend to emulate what they see, whether it be fashion, music, drug use or sex by their own admission. Furthermore, the lack of sex education in our society leaves these children with limited sources to get their information. Teenagers admit they are influenced by their peers, who in turn are influenced by these programs.
Television and movies have developed patterns over time. There are the good girls, and the bad girls. The same applies to males in these movies. At one time, scripts went with the
“good” girl becoming the hero. That has changed, now that some young girls are adopting the “bad” girl persona. The bad girl is the one that nabs the guy, at the expense of others, basically running amok doing whatever …show more content…
It is a cartoon and was marketed toward younger viewers. Because it was a cartoon, censors and writers fought vigorously over what should be allowed and what should not. So they sneakily used innuendo in the script. The only problem with that is, younger people got the joke instead of the parents. We have become so desensitized to what has happened over the years, that now we have programs like Family Guy on during primetime, that makes use of a pedophile neighbor as a regular on the program: Who has dreams about victimizing the son of the main character, and people laugh about it. So to those who think television does not influence teens on sexuality, this should be a wake-up call, because it does. In Bruce Kluger’s article, “Talk to Teens about TV’s casual sex, he writes there are an average of eight sexual incidents during the 8 p.m. hour. And this is on all stations, not just cable anymore. Kluder goes on to write, the comedy hour is not so funny anymore, what with all of the