Teenage Sexuality and Media Practice

Teenage Sexuality and Media Practice: Factoring in the Influences of Family, Friends, and School Author(s): Jeanne Rogge Steele Source: The Journal of Sex Research, Vol. 36, No. 4 (Nov., 1999), pp. 331-341 Published by: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3813717 . Accessed: 25/03/2011 14:24
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TeenageSexualityand Media Practice: Factoringin the Influences of Family,Friends, and School
Jeanne Rogge Steele
OhioUniversity

This multi-method, qualitativestudy addresses the question:How do mass media images and messages about love, sex and relationshipsinteract with what teens learn about sexuality at home, in school, and from theirfriends? Using the Adolescents 'Media Practice Model

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