Effects of the Media’s Sexuality on Adolescent’s Sexual Lives

Abstract

The effects of the media’s portrayal on sexuality on adolescent’s lives are vast. Most media in today’s society portrays acts of sexuality as commonplace and expected. It shows young girls being flirtatious and having sex. It shows young men as sexual predators or pressuring the girls. It is far and few between that a show displays age appropriate sexuality for its viewers. The media also represents young gays and lesbians more readily than it would have years ago. I think this is a good idea since that demographic of viewer base has increased greatly. This increased awareness for young people has both positive and negative impacts. The increased awareness of the effects of sexuality in early ages such as pregnancy and STD’s are more prevalent than in yester years. However, the increased stimuli of sexuality leads to more exploration of our younger generations to have sex earlier than they should be and producing babies at a younger age as well as they are contracting more STD’s, sexual abuse and rape cases . I think the media’s influence on our future generations needs to be tempered and that is the job of the parent or caregiver. Through this article I tried to give the new vision about What Are the Effects of the Media’s Sexuality on Adolescents’ Sexual Lives both positive and negative.