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Sex Education Messages In The Media
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Sex Education Messages In The Media |
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543 |
| # of Pages (250 words per page double spaced) |
2.17 |
Sex Education Messages in the Media
Sex Education Messages In The Media
The media should not be blamed for the sexuality of american
youth.
First concern in sexual activity is too much media. Television is
something that kids watch all the time. Television shows that show sexual
activity and children pick up on those events quickly. Teenagers dream about
marrying someone who is good looking and has money and then starting a
family with them. A lot of teens watch soap operas and romantic shows.
Teens see kids, their age, having sex and getting pregnant and they think they
can do it, too. Parents should watch what types of TV shows and movies that
their children are watching. TV commercials are explicit when it comes to
showing sex. Teens can pick up ideas about sex from commercials. Such as,
the Trojan Man and the Durex commercials shown frequently on MTV and
other stations. The media could be more discrete about that sort of material
on the airwaves. In light of these statistics, it would appear that the
nonjudgemental/safe-sex approach can add up to a dangerous combination.
Dr. Theresa Crenshaw, a past president of the American Association of Sex
Educators, Counselors and Therapists, in testimony before a House
subcommittee in February 1987, said, “To say that the use of condoms is
‘safe sex’ is in fact playing Russian roulette. A lot of people will die in this
dangerous game.” Yet despite warnings like this, schoolteachers routinely
present homosexuality to their students as just another option about which
they must decide for themselv
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