Teen_Sex

Teen Sex Teen sex is a major problem in our society which is all too often overlooked. Although the number of teens engaging in sexual activity is down from just a few years ago, that number is still too high. The decision to engage in sexual activity as a teen is influenced by the media and a lack of parental guidance. The media has an effect on everyone is one way or another. It can affect how people view certain things and what they think without them even realizing it. The media has a profound influence on the decision to engage in premarital sex as a teen. By age 18, the average teen will have spent more time watching television than in the classroom. During these hours of television watching, teens will view nearly 14 000 sexual remarks, innuendoes, and jokes per year. Only 165 of these remarks deal with topics such as abstinence, birth control, and sexually transmitted diseases. MTV, a music based television station geared at adolescents, often tries to tell its viewers what’s hot and what’s not. The station features many shows which deal primarily with teen sexuality and plays a large number of music videos, approximately 80%, which have sexually motivated teens, sexual, media, sex, parents, children, about, often, sexually, information, activity, television, teen, receive, what’s, values, station, parental, number, need, best, believe, age, active, young, watching, view, topics, talk, stop, shown, should, remarks, problem, premarital, place