SEXY!
Posted on 11/03/2008 8:09:19 AM PST by Publius804
RISKY BUSINESS
TEEN PREGNANCY TIED TO SEXY TV WATCHING
CHICAGO - Groundbreaking research suggests that pregnancy rates are much higher among teens who watch a lot of TV with sexual dialogue and behavior compared with those who have tamer viewing tastes.
"Sex and the City," anyone? That was one of the shows used in the research.
The new study is the first to link those viewing habits with teen pregnancy, said lead author Anita Chandra, a Rand Corp. behavioral scientist. Teens who watched the raciest shows were twice as likely to become pregnant over the next three years as those who watched few such programs.
Previous research by some of the same scientists had already found that watching lots of sex on TV can influence teens to have sex at earlier ages.
Shows that only highlight the positive aspects of sexual behavior without the risks can lead teens to have unprotected sex "before they're ready to make responsible and informed decisions," Chandra said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
What were teenage pregnancies tied to before they had sexy TV shows?
Breaking News?
Breaking wind, maybe!
Monkey see, monkey do.
Stupid people permit their children to watch sex in the media.
We have a particularly stupid populace.
Drinking beer also increases the likelihood that you’ll get drunk too.
Speaking of sexy TV, I watched Mike Rowe inseminating a cow the other day on Dirty Jobs, and I must say that my desire to impregnate teenagers has never been lower. Problem solved.
It's the trial lawyers versus the mediots.
The media claims the shows have no effect, but sell their air time on the basis that they do.
Yup, time to call Cap’t Obvious.
This thread needs pictures!
Exactly! I wonder how much this study cost, and how much of it was funded by tax payers.
I’m calling shenanigans on this. No one ever got knocked up from watching TV, sexy or no.
SEXY!
Just because you say so?
Pffft.
Hey, don’t make me go all question-begging on you. ;p
But the way I understand - and having no kids, I might be misinformed - one has to commit a biological act to achieve parenthood. TV-watching doesn’t seem to fit the bill.
How bout a collective DUH! to the idiots in hollywood marketing deviance to kids and the public in general. Note now that the major marketing effort is to spread homosexuality, homosexual adoption which is code for child abuse and sexual abuse by homosexuals predating kids, and death. Hollywood has become a very sick and perverted bunch of low-lifes, imho.
Yes, but this begs the question: What things influence kids to "commit the biological act"? I'm begging for the answer to that question.
That's because nobody else needed to conduct a "study" to figure this one out...
"Miz" Chandra no doubt has a Ph.D....
And how come you or I didn’t think of it. Cha-ching!
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