75 percent of prime time television in the 1999-2000 season included sexual content Sex on TV: Content and Context. The Kaiser Family Foundation, 5 February, 2001.
23 percent of couples in scenes with intercourse appeared to be ages 18-24 Your Children & Pornography: A guide for Parents, Tom Buford. Tommera Press, 2001.
Movies have an 87% likelihood of presenting sexual material Sex on TV: Content and Context. The Kaiser Family Foundation, 5 February, 2001.
The average American adolescent will view nearly 14,000 sexual references per year Sexuality, Contraception, and the Media. American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Public Education, January, 2001.
Premarital sex is referred to two or three times every hour in soap operas Teens and Sex, Paul A. Gore, Ph.D. University of Missouri-Kansas City. www.umkc.edu, 22 April, 1998.
More than 3 out of 4 Americans say the way television programs show sex encourages irresponsible sexual behavior Teens, Sex, & the Media. www.mediascope.org, 15 March, 2000.
12-17 year old young men are most susceptible and vulnerable to mass media sexual portrayals Pornography: A review of scientific literature, Stan E. Weed, Ph.D. 17 October, 1997.
66 percent of children (ages 10-16) surveyed say their peers are influenced by television shows It's Just Harmless Entertainment…Oh Really? Parents Television Council. http://www.parentstv.org.
64 percent of all shows include sexual content, and only 15% mention waiting, protection, and consequences TV Sex Getting "Safer." Kaiser Family Foundation. http://www.kff.org, 2003.
Playboy’s largest cable channel, Playboy TV, is available in 24 million of the nation’s 81 million homes that receive either satellite, cable or digital television Court Overrules Law restricting Cable Sex Shows, Linda Greenhouse. The New York Times On the Web. http://www.nytimes.com/library/politics/scotus/articles/052300scotus.html
“The Center for Media and Public Affairs’ new study found that sexual content is featured once every four minutes on network TV, with 98% of all sexual content having no subsequent physical consequences, 85% of sexual behavior having no lasting emotional impact, and that nearly 75% of the participants in sexual activity were unmarried.” New look at TV sex and violence. National Catholic Register, 16-22 April 2000.
Sexual content on prime-time TV more than tripled in the past ten years More TV Sex, USA Today. 30 March, 2000.
40 percent of teenagers have gotten ideas for how to talk to their boyfriends and girlfriends about sexual issues from entertainment media Teens, Sex, & the Media. Media Scope. 2001.
Teens ages 13-15 rank entertainment media as the top source of information about sexuality and sexual health Teens, Sex, & the Media. Media Scope. 2001.
59 percent of parents say their 4-6 year-old boys imitate aggressive behavior from television Zero to Six: Electronic Media in the Lives of Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers. Kaiser Family Foundation, 28 October, 2003.
Teenagers who watch a lot of television with sexual content are twice as likely to engage in intercourse than those who watch few such programs according to a study headed by the RAND Corp. and funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study links TV to teen sexual activity. http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/09/07/tv.teen.sex.reut/index.html. 7 September, 2004.
