Of course they do. Common sense was ahead of psychological research.
Why do you think they are putting so many Homosexuals on TV these days.
They know kids are affected by it. It doesn’t take a study to know that, Porn is rampant it didn’t get that way because it doesn’t affect people.
Hollywood used to sell cigarettes and booze, now they sell drugs and sex.
I can help but wonder if it has more to do with the parents than the movies. Surly the parents of these children where the ones allowing them to watch the films to begin with. This sounds to me to be another excuse for bad parenting – blame the movies and video games.
There are no more “sexually suggestive” movies.
They pretty much put all the sex right out there front and center, for all the world to see, in eye-popping 1080i.
I have no doubt it affects adults too. And I think about what we (virtually all of us I suspect) accept as fine and dandy in entertainment today. Check it out. You cannot watch much of anything (I would say anything but someone could probably produce something so I’ll hedge there) that doesn’t have some sexual component that would have been considered not acceptable for all audiences when I was a child (which really was not THAT long ago).
The culture has changed in a short 30 years into something I barely recognize and people in their lives now accept what when I was a kid was not considered acceptable. We look a lot more now, like what the movies were showing as cool, then.
How about all those slasher movies where the kids fornicate and then get hacked into pieces by the evil character like Jason??? Is that an accidental moral lesson or just fun?
Or does it cause future disfunction of you-know-what?
Liberals constantly claim violence is worse than sex in movies but I don’t see them as close. 99% of movie violence is fantastic and unreal but the sex is realistic except that nothing bad ever happens from the sex.
Parents are to blame of course. Many don’t seem to have any morals themselves. Monica Lewinskys parents turned out to be not that uncommon. That was an eye opener for me.
Surprise, surprise.
It’s in your face all the time...on tv & internet (now in libraries), in newspapers, in magazines, in movies, in advertisement, on billboards, all in prominent places, near schools, near/in restaurants, even near churches, near ball fields and parks...how can people not think that it doesn’t have an adverse effect on children: promiscuity, pornography, homosexuality and other unnatural acts, adultery, divorce, sexual abuse, pedophilia, and on and on...our children in this country are encouraged to experiment in such things, even in our schools, and there are precious few people in our government who say anything against it.
Lettuce be real..this suggestion is a joke in real life practice.
After you watch a G rated family movie with your little Johnnie and Susie they go up to their room and fire up the internet to watch free harcore porn...and young girls are some of the largest viewers of porn today.
yep. the biggest problem is there is no alternative. Everything they put on TV these days pushes that crap
When each one of my children began dating, I had some really good talks with them about respecting their own body and the body of the one they were dating. I said things like, "Don't spend a lot of time necking." "Respect her enough not to touch her where a two-piece bathing suit would be on her body." "If its good it can wait."
As parents we have to be very sensitive to our own children. We are the only ones who have been with them since birth and we are the only ones who should teach them such a subject. We can't expect a school system or a website to do our job for us.
I'd want to see an example of the "heavy kissing" in the G-rated movie. Does it count if the characters are animated talking animals? Barbie and Ken dolls?
What's "heavy kissing," anyway? Kissing between fat people?
DUH!
Before WW 2, and for all I know, still today, little pocket size porno comic books used to be sold with condoms. When I was 12, one of these got circulated among the 7th grade boys at my school. I still remember the profound shock I got from reading this thing. It was a crude parody of a popular daily comic strip; the first piece of porno I had ever seen. I can’t imagine how much greater the effect of current TV would be on similar age boys, although I suppose schools now give them more of an introduction than we got back then.
Don't go to the theaters to begin with. It's too expensive, too much trouble, and enriches the Hollywood libs. Stay at home and watch TCM or watch DVD's of movies you know are good. Or try to find some good movies online. There are still a few up (though not nearly as much as there used to be, consarn it).
Of course. When everyone is having sex with everyone else, on tv, in the movies, and in the tabloids, teens assume that every time a man and a woman are alone together they are having sex. I did when I was growing up. This is the society we are raised in.
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