But I have to admit, Ann Margrock, hottest cartoon character, ever.
Posted on 08/17/2012 10:25:19 AM PDT by Kaslin
Culture Challenge of the Week: Movies "Selling" Sex to Children
Can you name the last five movies your teenage son or daughter has watched with friends? How strong was the sexual content in those movies?
And does it really matter?
New research suggests that it does. The study, conducted by Dr. Ross O'Hara and soon to be published in the journal Psychological Science, found that promiscuity on-screen promotes promiscuity in real life. "Adolescents who are exposed to more sexual content in movies start having sex at younger ages, have more sexual partners," and engage in riskier sexual activities says Dr. O'Hara.
While at Dartmouth University, Dr. O'Hara (now a researcher at the University of Missouri) and his team analyzed the movie-watching patterns of about 1,200 young teens, ages 12-14. Researchers next analyzed the teens' sexual behavior six years later, considering the age at which they became sexually active, their number of partners, and the riskiness of their sexual activity, including whether or not they used contraceptives.
The result: bad news. Young teens who viewed movies with sexual content were profoundly influenced by what they watched. They initiated sexual behavior earlier than their peers who viewed less sexual content, and tended to imitate the on-screen sexual behaviors they saw-which included casual sex, multiple partners, and high-risk behaviors.
It's not surprising, really. Teens crave information about sex--and too often turn to the media for information. Moreover, adolescent hormones operate in overdrive and teens are naturally more sensitive to sexual stimulation. Less likely to delay gratification, teens are more likely to be impulsive and think themselves impervious to harm. The combination, researchers say, means that "sensation seeking, or the tendency to seek more novel and intense sexual stimulation" increases in teens who "watched more movies with sexually explicit content."
So what should parents do?
How to save your Family: Select Movies with Your Children
Dr. O'Hara sums it up well, saying, "This study, and its confluence with other work, strongly suggests that parents need to restrict their children from seeing sexual content in movies at young ages."
Agreed. But unfortunately, the solution is not as simple as checking a movie's rating. In fact, G-rated movies are part of the problem. The O'Hara study also analyzed the sexual content in 700 films, all top-grossing films from 1998-2004. Defining "sexual content" as anything from heavy kissing to actual sex scenes, researchers found sexual content in more than a third of the G-rated movies, more than half of PG-rated films, and four out of every five R-rated movies.
Short of prohibiting movies all together-an unwise and unworkable solution--there are some things a parent can do. First, use websites that provide specific information about movie content, rather than a reviewer's judgment about an appropriate viewing age.
Websites like Pluggedin.com and Movieguide provide not only specifics about movie content but also analysis from a Christian perspective. (PluggedIn offers reviews of music and gaming products as well.) Two straightforward secular sources are Screenit and Kids-in-mind-both provide valuable descriptions of specific movie content, including sexuality, violence, and language. One caution-a few websites, such as CommonSense Media, offer age-ratings to help guide parents. But organizations which lean left, as CommonSense Media does, or are tied in tightly with entertainment industry folks, can't be relied on by parents who want to raise children with traditional values. The Parent's Television Council at www.ParentsTV.org is an excellent resource for information on the content of popular TV shows and offers great movie reviews.
Second, talk with your children about sex. While sex won't be a casual dinnertime conversation topic, you need to create private time with your teens to explore their feelings and questions about sex. If we're silent, our teens will learn about sex from friends and the movies-a route that's sure to normalize sexual risk-taking.
Third, stay in the loop. Talk with other parents and get to know your teen's friends. Realize that at some point your child probably will see something too sexually explicit, whether at a friend's house or on a computer. Keep the conversations going and remind your teens that Hollywood is a world without consequences.
” Mary Anne (Dawn Wells) and Ginger (Tina Louise) were hot.... Barbara Eden was hot...
Yep, yep, and yep.
“And of course, Raquel Welch.”
Welch STILL looks good. Seen her lately?
RE Raquel:
She’s up there, and STILL a beauty, Sophia Loren too. She was always a knockout.
RE Raquel:
She’s up there, and STILL a beauty, Sophia Loren too. She was always a knockout.
Thanks, I don't think I gave him the response he was fishing for.
I guess he thinks Fred and Ethel were real people too.
I think Fred and Ethel are knocking at your door. Listen, you can hear them now. I know they visit you regularly with little Ricky.
LOL
” Ooooooooooooooooo that Barney Rubble......what an actuh!! “
That is a good point. Barney and Betty Rubble obviously had sex to conceive Bam-Bam yet they didnt film them in bed naked. In fact they slept separate in twin beds just like Ricky and Lucy did for the camera.
They shut the cameras off when that was going on. If the show the Flintstones didnt show what they were really doing then why did the Tudors have to? Obviously people were more prudent in the Stone Age days.
I was going to give you then benefit of doubt, but you have convinced me you are either a pervert or an idiot. If you want to believe that the pornographic movies that you think are just true life portrayals then there is no hope for you and likely the Republic.
Hollywood is inhabited by perverts that continuously push the envelope toward the perverted lifestyle that they either live or fantasize. The fact that you think it is normal shows that they have achieved their goal, at least with you.
LOL, did Ricky Ricardo tell you that?
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“...A good daycare, they are watching Sesame Street and Disney.”
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Any daycare showing Sesame Street and Disney is NOT good.
But I get your point.
> The result: bad news. Young teens who viewed movies with
> sexual content were profoundly influenced by what they
> watched. They initiated sexual behavior earlier than
> their peers who viewed less sexual content, and tended to
> imitate the on-screen sexual behaviors they saw-which
> included casual sex, multiple partners, and high-risk behaviors.
Thus keeping the abortion and pharmaceutical industries highly profitable.
And they had to waste money doing a study on this?
But I have to admit, Ann Margrock, hottest cartoon character, ever.
” Obviously people were more prudent in the Stone Age days. “
Find cute cave chick.
Drag her back to the cave
Make baby
Yeah....more prudent, and less dialogue : )
Not my kids. Computers are in the dining room which is the main thoroughfare in our house. Only one TV and no cable hooked up to it. I see what my kids see. We watch PG and R movies with the older kids(12 and 14) but cover the TV and mute certain scenes until we get through them. If anything important happens we just summarize what happened and move on.
There will plenty of time for them to see that stuff when they’re grown. Hopefully, if we succeed in raising them properly, they’ll continue to avert their eyes when needed. I don’t watch it, either. No one should. There are just some things that should be between a husband and a wife and not thrown all over the TV screen.
"I think you're some kind of deviated prevert. I think General Ripper found out about your preversion, and that you were organizing some kind of mutiny of preverts. Now MOVE!"
Hey, Where did you get that picture of me?? :)
Follow the I love Lucy comments on this thread, they are a hoot.
See my post #27. Don’t be so hovering/strict to your kids that once they leave the coop they go helter skelter wild...again, I saw it a million times while at uni.
I homeschool my kids. They rarely go to friends houses without me because we have big family/friend gatherings with other families similar to ours. No TV. No internet porn. My kids aren’t seeing it nor will they any time soon.
Why on earth would I cut the cord to a 14 year old and let him “learn to be an adult”? He’s a child. He can learn to be an adult by doing a man’s work around the house and yard. He can learn to be an adult by learning how to lead his family in prayer. Becoming an adult does not mean looking at porn. Becoming an adult means learning that there are just some things best avoided for the sake of your soul.
Now, when they are all grown and have moved out of the house, I can only pray that I have taught them to be respectable and respectful and that it will stick long after that cord is broken.
I’m guessing since you’ve only been out of high school 8 years that you don’t have teenagers yet. Get back to me on how you raise your own children when they’ve gotten a little older.
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