The media is trying hard to raise awareness sometimes, but we can't fool ourselves because in my opinion sex education should only start in home and schools, moreover our media is doing it in a wrong way if their goal was to inform the viewer. ... The Lebanese journalist Sahar Mansour, has tackled that issue in her research paper about media and sexuality in Lebanon, she considered that the transformation that has occurred in our media was caused by the socio-political structures in our society. ... In addition, several studies show that the children who watch sexual sketches in med...

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Media and Its Effects On Children Sex and violence sell and the media often use these, to an unlimited degree, to seize market share regardless of the damage that may occur to children and adolescent youth. ... These changes in literature targeted to the youthful audience illustrate the moral dilemma confronting the producers of mass media content, even those who do so with purity of purpose (Day 366). ... On the other hand, media practitioners must be sensitive to community standards and charges by pressure groups, that exposure to controversial material at such an early age may undermi...

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Studies show that birth rates for women under 20 are higher in the United States than in 29 other developed countries." ... The single most important factor that influences teenagers to explore their sexuality is the media. ... 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. ... "Few studies have looked at the importance of emotional or conduct disorders, but it seems that sexually active teenagers are more likely to be emotionally disturbed. In one study s...

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The majority of cases of juvenile sexual aggression appear to involve adolescent male perpetrators; however, a number of clinical studies have pointed to the presence of females and prepubescent youths who have engaged in sexually abusive behaviors. ~ Looking at social process theories one might conceive that youths who perpetrate these crimes against other children are lacking elements of social bonds; Commitment (family, success, future goals), Belief (honesty, morality, fairness, responsibility), Attachment (family, friends, community), and Involvement (school activities, sports, communi...

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If we are not, then we are thinking about it, planning on doing so in the future, or being bombarded by it in the media. ... In a study on the effectiveness of these virginity pledges at preventing pledgers, it was found that 60% of those surveyed had broken their vow 5 years after the original study. ... In July 2007 a "meta-study" published in the British Medical Journal reviewed examining the results of 13 abstinence-only tests which included almost 16,000 students ("Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs", n.d.). ... This study is described by some as a landmark becau...

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In the early 1970s, studies reported that, since 1945, 99 percent of the homes in the United States had acquired at least one television set (Mander, 1978, p.24). ... Predictably, the effects of too much sex on television have appeared in studies of juvenile offenders. ... This new wave of reverse sexism is explained by Adweek media critic Barbara Lippert: "The more de-babed we get, the more men have to become the babes because we need babes in advertising" (Ingrassia, 1994, p. 66). ... Despite studies which suggest that, "if the program is the problem, change the program," researchers a...

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Hafford touches briefly upon education in schools, the media, and communities and how great of a necessity it is in order to communicate to teens the strong correlation there is between alcohol and unprotected sex. ... Studies have proven that two-thirds of 48 comprehensive sex education programs have had positive effects on teenagers, states the National Campaign to End Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. ...

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Studies examining brain injuries and abnormalities suggest trauma and violence can lead to an increase in battering behavior. ... The media is another societal-influenced based theory that encourages sexual aggression. ...

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Studies found explained that in both of these Suriname and Guyana there are numerous amounts of "casual" sexual encounters amongst same sex partners and an even bigger amount of these partners having sex unprotected. ...

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Albert Bandura's social learning theory is the standard theory involving media's effect on adolescent behavior. ... In one study of soap operas, there was only one representation of a married couple engaging in sex for every 24 portrayals of unmarried characters performing sexual acts. ...

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