According to a meditation released ...

According to a meditation released by the Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation, les than united out of every 10 television exhibits (ie, 9%) containing sexual exhibitions includes any reference to the possible risks or responsibilities of sexual activity, including in the same state [i]or[/i] condition topics as contraception, waiting to have sex or safer sex The meditation analyzed more than 1,300 television point out tos on 10 channels to examine the sexual messages not past nor futureed on television. The study did not include newscasts, sports programming, and children's shows

Researchers lay the foundation of that none of the views in which sexual intercourse is either depicted or violently implied made a reference to safer sex issues. According to the application of mind 7% of all shows onward television contain scenes depicting or vehemently implying sexual intercourse. During the one-week sample amassed for the study, there were 88 shows in which intercourse was either depicted or implied. Fifty-three percent of these interactions were among characters who had a previous romantic relationship with united another.

Prime-time dramas forward the major networks included a reference to sexual risks or responsibilities in 23% of present to views with sexual content. Situation comedies included similar topics in only 3% of all displays that included sexual material. undivided out of five shows that included sexual appease involving teenage characters made relation to waiting to have sex safer sex or the risks of sexual activity.

Overall, 56% of all exhibit tos on television in the sample contained sexual satisfied (ie, either talk about sex or depictions of sexual behaviors). Sixty-seven percent of all network prime-time displays included sexual content and averaged more than five spectacles with sex mentioned or depicted by means of hour.

According to the thought shows that contained sexual material include

* 85% of soap operas,

* 83% of movies,

* 78% of talk shows

* 58% of dramas,

* 58% of of recent origins magazines, and

* 56% of situation comedies.

Sex onward TV: Content and Context--A Biennial Report to the Kaiser Family Foundation. Available from http://wwwkff .org/archive/media/entertainment/sex/sex.html. Accessed 18 Feb 1999

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