July 19, 2012 9:14 AM
Research: teens corrupted by movie sex
Well, duh.We needed to spend money on research to get this?
Teenagers 'can be corrupted' by Hollywood sex scenes
Watching sex scenes in Hollywood films can make children more promiscuous and sexually active from a younger age, a new study has suggested.
American Beauty, staring Kevin Spacey and Mena Suvari
Psychologists concluded that teenagers exposed to more sex on screen in popular films are likely to have sexual relations with more people and without using condoms.
The study, based on nearly 700 popular films, found that watching love scenes could "fundamentally influence" a teenager's personality.
The researchers, from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, concluded youngsters were more prone to take risks in their future relationships.
They also concluded that for every hour of exposure to sexual content on-screen, participants were more than five times more likely to lose their virginity within six years.
"Adolescents who are exposed to more sexual content in movies start having sex at younger ages, have more sexual partners, and are less likely to use condoms with casual sexual partners," said Dr Ross O'Hara, who led the study.
"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."
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Comments
I could have told them that. :(
Posted by: tereza crump aka MyTreasuredCreations | August 13, 2012 2:52 AM
