According to a report from the BBC news, recent studies suggest that teens are more likely to engage in sexual intercourse the more exposed they are to TV programs that contain sexually suggestive scenes. Duh! It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that you become a product of your environment. It is very difficult to feed yourself a steady diet of these types of viewings and not have it affect you.
Does it need a study to determine this? They could have given the money to me used for the study and I would have told them that. I would have also been able to pull together a group of adults and teens who could attest to that. Hello
The article states that the researchers interviewed 2,000 adolescents aged 12 to 17 three times between 2001 and 2004. It found that teens who watched larger amounts of sexually charged TV shows were twice as likely to experience a pregnancy in the subsequent three years, compared with those with lower levels of exposure.
Teenage girls who watch a lot of TV shows with a high sexual content are twice as likely to become pregnant, according to a study.
Those of us who have been making these claims for years were marginalized and seen as right wing fundamentalists wackos. What do we know. What evidence do we have for such claims? Granted, I do look at studies and do reference them. I embrace the scientific findings. However this I do with balance.
The wisest man that ever lived outside of Jesus, is Solomon. This is what he said hundreds of years ago – “Guard your heart for out of it flows the issues of life”
The eye-gate is one of the main ways by which ones heart becomes corrupt. Images that are captured on the video wall of our mind will inevitably play over and over again. When we take time to reflect upon these images that has now produced thoughts of one kind or another, we must do something with the thought. Imagine a teen whose hormones are raging. What do you think their thoughts might be? Given the right situation, place, time, and person, the chance is they are going to act on these impulses.
Why then should these findings surprise us? For me, it only confirms what I’ve held to for a long time. And I must add this goes for music as well.
When will they do a study on music and its impact on teens sexuality, violence, and rebellion?
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