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Teen Sex, Adultery, Lust, Hot Topics on U.S. Prime-time Soaps
A study conducted by a prominent U.S. media watchdog, known as the Parents Television Council, has revealed that adultery, teen sex and lust are hot topics on prime-time TV.
The council said that it studied over 207 hours of scripted shows on the five main American broadcast networks, and found that spoken references to non-marital sex outnumbered mentions of marital intimacy by about three to one.
The ratio was four to one for scenes that visually depict or imply sex, said the council.
The study showed once-taboo topics like partner-swapping, threesomes, strippers and prostitution were increasingly becoming common these days.
"(TV networks) are more interested in being shocking. Theyre more interested in being provocative than telling a story thats going to resonate with the vast majority of TV viewers," the Sydney Morning Herald quoted Melissa Henson, the studys author, as saying.
The four-week study of programs on ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC and CW networks discovered 151 verbal references to non-marital sex and 54 to married sex.
It also revealed that marital sex was often described in a boring or disrespectful way whenever it was mentioned on TV.
"(Prime-time TV) seems to be actively seeking to undermine marriage by consistently painting it in a negative light," Henson said.
The PTC said that the ABC network, part of the Walt Disney empire, had most sexual references, particularly to adultery.
The council said that it studied over 207 hours of scripted shows on the five main American broadcast networks, and found that spoken references to non-marital sex outnumbered mentions of marital intimacy by about three to one.
The ratio was four to one for scenes that visually depict or imply sex, said the council.
The study showed once-taboo topics like partner-swapping, threesomes, strippers and prostitution were increasingly becoming common these days.
"(TV networks) are more interested in being shocking. Theyre more interested in being provocative than telling a story thats going to resonate with the vast majority of TV viewers," the Sydney Morning Herald quoted Melissa Henson, the studys author, as saying.
The four-week study of programs on ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC and CW networks discovered 151 verbal references to non-marital sex and 54 to married sex.
It also revealed that marital sex was often described in a boring or disrespectful way whenever it was mentioned on TV.
"(Prime-time TV) seems to be actively seeking to undermine marriage by consistently painting it in a negative light," Henson said.
The PTC said that the ABC network, part of the Walt Disney empire, had most sexual references, particularly to adultery.
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guest
09/25/2008
This is staged. The media is controlled by a corporate elite that wishes to change the behavior of our children. This has been going on for years. Get rid of the TVs! Save yourselves!
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Forward
08/24/2008
We talk about devil, the devil is nothing but the dark side of human nature and there is no better way to reflect this then on the television. This supreme medium of expression of human emotions is more and more likely to be dominated by the dark side of man. The required eyeballs to get all the mullah cannot come by depicting 'goodness' - this is too boring for the bedroom audience. So let the devil rise and let us watch the age of darkness unfold. Once dark side of human nature wins and dominates our emotions and thinking the doom will take over. Let us see how long will this take....the devil will eventually say long live the television... |
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