Exposure to semi-explicit sexual television content is related to adolescents' reduced fear of AIDS

Lemal, Marijke; Bulck, Jan Van den

doi:10.3109/13625180903281317

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“…Aside from being unrealistic, sexual content that is void of consequences may lead youth to underestimate outcomes associated with sexual relations (i.e., pregnancy rates). This indeed was found to be the case in one study (Lemal & Van den Bulck, 2009), in which younger adolescents from Belgium who frequently viewed sexually semiexplicit programming were also more likely to underestimate their vulnerability to STIs and diseases such as HIV/AIDS. Similarly, participants exposed to an unintended pregnancy storyline presented in a humorous context perceived less severity in the consequences of unintended pregnancy and expressed stronger intentions to have unprotected sex (men only) than those who had not seen this storyline (Moyer-Gusé, Mahood, & Brookes, 2011).…”

Section: Sexual Health Information In Magazinesmentioning

confidence: 72%

Sexuality and entertainment media.

Ward

Reed

Trinh

et al. 2014

APA Handbook of Sexuality and Psychology, Vol. 2: Contextual Approaches.

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The portrayals are not uniform, but instead come in multiple forms-explicit and implied; verbal and nonverbal; reality based or wholly fictional; and covering a range of themes, tones (e.g., humorous or serious; positive or negative), and consequences. Consider, for example, each of the following scenarios: a sitcom episode in which a sex-starved husband devises a complex lie to make his wife have sympathy for him so she will sleep with him; a music video in which a young man encourages his two female companions to kiss each other while he watches; a magazine article that instructs young women on how to flirt successfully. In each instance the content is not necessarily sexually explicit (i.e., pornography), but the images, dialogue, storylines, and character portrayals nonetheless offer substantial insight into how sexual relationships are initiated, maintained, nourished, and terminated.This chapter reviews major findings in the field concerning the impact of portrayals of sexuality and sexual relationships in mainstream entertainment media. In compiling materials for this review, we conducted comprehensive reviews of the PsychInfo, Communication and Mass Media, and PubMed electronic databases, focusing on studies published in the new millennium, from 2000 on. In creating parameters for this review, we have chosen to focus on analyses of the following entertainment media: television, films, music, music videos, video games, and magazines. We do not cover news media, literature, mass media public health campaigns, pornography (see Chapter 1, this volume), the Internet and new technologies (see Chapter 3, this volume), or unpublished dissertations and conference presentations. We also do not include a review of media content analyses but instead focus on media effects (but for excellent recent content analysis reviews, see Arnett, 2002;Greenberg & Hofschire, 2000;Ward, 2003;Wright, 2009). We begin our review with a brief discussion of how viewers perceive sexual content in the media and then move into summarizing effects in the following domains: sexual attitudes, sexual behavior, and sexual health. We conclude with reviews of media effects on three emerging domains: homosexuality, sexual violence, and sexual objectification. PERCEPTIONS OF SEXUAL MEDIADespite the extensive literatures on media content and effects, less is known about the contributing processes of media selection and perception. It is evident that the frequency and portrayal of sex vary across media, genres, and target audiences. For example, television programs most popular with adolescents and young adults contain more sexual

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Section: Sexual Health Information In Magazinesmentioning

confidence: 72%