Teenage Sex: An Almost Unnotic

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The single most important factor that influences teenagers to explore their sexuality is the media. “The media expose adolescents to the sexual scripting of behaviors they may not have observed elsewhere […]. On prime time TV, the occurrence of premarital and extramarital sex far outnumbers sex between spouses, with the rate soaring to 24:1 in soap operas […]. The rate is 32:1 in R-rated movies […]. In action-adventure series, premarital sex and prostitution are the most frequent encounters […].” (John R. Chapinanders). By catering to our basic sexual desires, the media can easily manipulate and adjust the attitudes and actions of its watchers, listeners, and readers. The teenagers of today seem to be the most easily manipulated age group by sexual connotations portrayed by the media due to their vulnerability for conformity. In the movies or on television, the actors and actresses make sex look easy, fun and glamorous. It appears to be something everyone is doing. On television shows like "Dawson's Creek", and “Gilmore Girls”, sex is usually the major topic of the entire show. Whether it is guys and girls, guys and guys, girls and girls, or multiple persons of each sex, the sex act itself is a major conflict. Movies specifically aimed at the teenage audience, specifically known as “teen movies”, base most of their story lines on relationships and sex between teenagers. For example movies, such as "Cruel Intentions", portray sex as a game. The main characters, who are supposed to be high school students, are placing bets on each other to see which one of them will have sex with some girl who is against the idea of premarital sex. As a result of the extensive and wide range scope the media covers, the media keeps gaining an ever increasing amount of influence in teenagers decision making than it did in the past.

This paper will be broken into two parts; part one of which will deal with the probable causes that push teenagers to early sex and part two which will deal with the effects of early teenage sex.

In conclusion, since the causes and the effects of teenage sexuality have been looked at, the only thing left to do is to find a solution to this problem. Firstly, as regarding the issue of sex education been taught in our schools, it has been noted that just the teaching of the technical aspects of sex without telling the students about moral values, how to make the right decisions, and abstinence is not the right way to go about sex education. Sex education also has to stress the importance of abstinence. “This notion of stressing abstinence is equivalent to asking young people to 'just say no' to drugs."” (Maggie Gallagher). The parents of teenagers also have to pitch-in in the effort to combat teenage sexuality because believe it or not, children actually do listen when their parents talk to them. The parents also have to remember that having a talk about sex with their children is not a sex organ recital; they have to be able to discuss the effects of having sex with their children at the cognitive level that the child is at.

One of the most important factors that encourage teenagers to start exploring sex is the society. In the society we live in today, sex is the number one favored topic. From home to school, in the malls, in the theaters, and almost everywhere else that teenagers mostly frequent, it will be seen that sex is always been advertised as the cool thing. Take fo

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