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 Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 10:56 pm
Taken from: http://tvguide.sympatico.msn.ca/TVNews/Articles/090507_kids_sex_study_ADEver wonder why mature TV shows air later at night? Me neither — it seems obvious that it’s because the kid-friendly fare airs before children go to sleep. Who wants their children exposed to the ravenous smoking and drinking of Mad Men or the gratuitous sex scenes of Gossip Girl? Does anyone else remember the good old days when Melrose Place was considered racy because two characters would kiss (kiss, not make-out), the music would cue and the screen would cut, therefore meaning they were getting it on? Yeah, that seems pretty corny to me too in comparison to the new stuff coming out. Um, Harper’s Island anyone? There’s a reason kids shouldn’t be exposed to this stuff too early, and a study from Children’s Hospital Boston pretty much confirms it: the age that kids are exposed to adult content in TV and movies is correlated to the age they become sexually active. Researchers tracked 754 children between the ages of six and 18 over the course of five years. In the first stage they tracked how much television the kids were watching during a sample week, and in the second stage they recorded when the kids became sexually active. Results showed that for every hour the youngest children watched adult-rated content, their chances of having sex early on in their adolescence increased 33 per cent. Is that the fault of the media, or of the parents allowing their kids to watch the programming? I’d say probably a mix of both, but what are your thoughts? amber@tvguide.ca
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Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 9:48 am
Interesting. I have been having sex for almost 10 years, starting when I was 16. I don't regret any of it. I was ready, educated, and prepared.
Growing up my tv time was not monitored. I had a tv in my room and could watch whatever I wanted. But smut never appealed to me. Even now, being a sexually active and experienced adult, I check the ratings on movies. If it's rated R, there's a decent chance I won't watch it. If it's rated R for sex, then it's a guarantee that I'm not watching it unless it's the edited for daytime tv version. I just think there's too much unnecessary sex in movies, and most of it is pretty offensive. I feel like most of is either:
- demeaning
- an insult to the watcher's intelligence, almost like the movie makers think we're too stupid to get the hint that two characters had sex, so they better just come out and show us
- a lack of creativity on the movie makers part, sort of like they couldn't think of a way to hint at it, so they decided to just show it full on or
- a filler to entertain us and distract us from the crappy plot
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Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 1:49 am
I started when I was 17, and I got interested in sex by reading romance novels when I was like, 11 or so. I know that by 12 I knew about sex and pregnancy and had a really good idea of what not to do.
My parents didn't tell me anything, and I didn't watch a whole ton of TV, so in my case I was fortunate enough to figure it out for myself. I wasn't allowed a phone, TV or computer in my room, so that wasn't an issue for me.
As for sex in movies, I've noticed that a lot of movies have a romantic subplot of some sort, almost like it's an excuse to throw a sex scene in. Like come on, did the new Star Trek movie need a smut scene? (from what I saw in the previews, mind you, I haven't actually seen the movie)
So I totally hear you Lorien. smile
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Posted: Sun May 10, 2009 9:04 pm
I think it all comes down to parenting. Sure, I was interested in sex as a teenager, but my parents always did keep a close eye on what I watched, read, and did. It didn't keep me from sneaking around and watching some stuff anyway xd but maybe it kept a lid on my hormones. The problem nowadays seems to be parents thinking the TV and Internet are babysitters. Monkey see, monkey do, you know?
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Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 2:09 am
I start having sex when I was 15, but I was also educated and prepared, though I did end up getting pregnant at 17. Not that I regret anything I did.
My sister kind of introduced me to sexual actions, not that she raped or molested me, she told me about masturbation when I was like..10, and I always watched the shows my parents did like La Femme Nakita and stuff like that. I read racey Christian novels, too. [Married sex life! surprised ]
But I never did have 'the talk'. In fact, my mom never told me about menstration, either. Just think about how that was. ><;;
I'm sick of putting on a movie, and its all about romance. That's all movies are for anymore, pretend relationships. Heard of Ender's Game? [Book]. The only reason it hasn't been made into a movie yet is because Orson Scott Card refuses to release rights if there is a romance plot in the script.
Even most books are becoming more romantically inclined more than anything [Twilight, anyone?]
Kids are starting to wonder about sex at younger and younger ages. It kind of makes me afraid when I hear that kids are having sex or experimenting at 10 or 11, especially when it IS possible to make babies that young! I almost want to lock my daughter up. ;-; Though, I know better, of course.
Maybe things will change.
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Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 9:19 am
I think it's kind of weird that we have all these movies about "love," when it really seems to just be lust and the thrill of the chase. It's true even in kid's movies. How about Aladdin? The basic plot there is, "Wow, she's hot. I've never talked to her before, but I'm feeling something over here, and it must be love." Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Cinderella, it's all the same. I feel like we're teaching our kids that lust and love are the same thing.
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Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 10:47 am
It's all part of the fairytale... I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that watching romcoms is actually bad for you because that stuff doesn't happen in real life, nothing is ever as cut and dried as it seems and there is no "one".
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Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 1:03 am
Well, I wouldn't say that there isn't someone for everyone, but I agree. All these shows are just teaching our kids that love and lust are the same things. Like Lorien said. Aladdin, Cinderella, etc.
I mean, all they are is teaching kids that they will find their perfect someone first shot.
But some people don't, obviously.
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Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 7:24 pm
I've been exposed to sex since like... forever. My first R film was when I was 9, but I still watched the TV I liked and surfed the web since I was 8... I ended up learning a lot of stuff. Yet, until I got a real boyfriend at 17 I hadn't really tried sex, just a few of the bases. I was probably more curious about sex that people my age, but I was also more informed than most of them. When I was 14 years old my friends would come to me to ask me what an orgasm was.
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Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 10:43 am
@Preston: I wasn't saying that there isn't someone for everyone, but over the course of our lives we meet and are attracted to many people, so there's no true love. That might just be my opinion. There are good relationships, bad relationships and great relationships, but there isn't only one person you will mysteriously meet and everything is just going to be peachy with. Unless you're ridiculously lucky. XD
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Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 2:43 am
I think it was just a matter of chance. I was about 6 when I found out about sex and I am 18 and still have not had sex nor thought about it. My friends even have me watch porn with them (because they are afraid to by themselves go fig) But I dont think television is the only thing. If kids are only raised by television then maybe. It takes the minds and words of many not a few to mold a child into a working functioning person. Of course if they only hear about sex through a tv screen they'll do it but someone has to have the talk to them beforehand. My grandma had the talk with me when I was 8, my mom never did because sex was taboo between us until I was 17, about 11 years too late.
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