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Study Links TV to Teen Sexual Activity
Health - Reuters ^ | Tue Sep 7, 2004 | Michael Conlon

Posted on 09/07/2004 5:44:38 AM PDT by Pharmboy

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To: american colleen

my kids are in Catholic school and they haven't done any commandeering of the sex ed yet here. you can't keep your kids in a bubble, and unfortunately, sex is rampant in the popular culture. the way to counter it, is to talk about it, and say TV and radio etc. would have you believe that sex is a joke, that it is something to laugh off, that everyone does it, but NO, it ISN"T that way. Far too few parents talk to their kids about sex and morality.


81 posted on 09/07/2004 8:46:27 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Pharmboy

They don't say if this included news shows with talk of oral sex between interns and Presidents.


82 posted on 09/07/2004 8:48:25 AM PDT by flada (I do not fall down. That SOB pushed me.)
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To: dakine
I knew there was a reason I watched Charlie's Angels, Policewoman, Three's Company, etc...

Today's content is waaaaaay beyond the double-entendre, wink and a nod kind of stuff in the 1970s. Not making excuses for the content then, but today its unashamed and in your face.

My parents didn't get the double-entendres on my ZZ Top records. Listen to 30 seconds of the b*tches, 'hos, etc. on a current rap CD and see if its the same.

83 posted on 09/07/2004 10:36:06 AM PDT by Ghengis
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To: Pharmboy
I've watched only one episode of "Friends." I found its agenda utterly offensive. The same for many other shows. They are actually promoting detructive values -- a form of mental pollution that I find more damaging that smoking.

Although in our home the kids didn't get to watch these shows -- and my daugher never was much for TV, there are many families where the parents don't care or aren't around or impressionable kids get exposure at their friends' homes. These kids should not be viewed as "throwaway kids."

84 posted on 09/07/2004 10:42:46 AM PDT by Dante3
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To: Ghengis

Darn, Now you are gonna make me think! Question use to be "Ginger or MaryAnn?"...


85 posted on 09/07/2004 10:56:49 AM PDT by dakine
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To: dakine
Darn, Now you are gonna make me think! Question use to be "Ginger or MaryAnn?"...

The answer today would be, both. ;-)

86 posted on 09/07/2004 11:08:07 AM PDT by Ghengis
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To: Pharmboy

"It is better to watch and comment than let them watch alone, also. Unless you're ready to stop electricity to the house"

Still better yet is to not watch and still comment on that which is pop culture.

You don't have to give up electricity.....just cable/satellite. It's really not that hard, and you may find, as I did, that your kids actually do things like read for pleasure. You save money, too.

If one declines to participate in pop culture, it ceases to have much effect on your kids. Mine aren't raised in a total vacuum, but the example of refusing to let pop culture/sexually explicit content into your home is one that has great influence on my kids.

Try it for a week by just unplugging the cable. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.


87 posted on 09/07/2004 11:28:35 AM PDT by RFEngineer
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To: Pharmboy

Why guess what?

ADVERTISING WORKS!!!


88 posted on 09/07/2004 11:28:35 AM PDT by mlmr (Find a ring and put it round, round, round And with ties so strong your two hearts are bound...)
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To: Servant of the 9
Naked is only bad if the wrong people walk in unexpectedly.

Like the kids . . .

89 posted on 09/07/2004 11:37:08 AM PDT by pettifogger
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To: tang-soo
Andy Griffith, Beverly Hillbillys

Bump for good tv. (when you weren't embarassed to view a show with the family)

90 posted on 09/07/2004 11:41:18 AM PDT by stainlessbanner ($10 horse and a $40 saddle)
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To: dakine
Think?? Oh no!! Better stand up! I've heard men can only think standing up... especially when it comes to that kind of topic.
91 posted on 09/07/2004 1:42:17 PM PDT by codyjacksmom (A hugh series Stuned beeber user since 08/04.)
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To: Pharmboy

This is a side effect not a cause. Kids who are interested in sex look for it on tv.


93 posted on 09/07/2004 1:48:11 PM PDT by biblewonk (neither said any of them that aught of the things which he possessed was his own)
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This is a side effect not a cause. Kids who are interested in sex look for it on tv.

I don't think anyone wants to hear that.

94 posted on 09/07/2004 8:06:29 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy ("Despise not the jester. Often he is the only one speaking the truth")
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