influence from television
The invention of television is one of the major achievements in human history. Televisions have changed people’s entertainment, their views of the world, and their lifestyles. Nowadays, people spend, on average, three hours and forty-six minutes every day watching television. When they reach the age of sixty-five, they will approximately have nine years facing those dramatic screens (“Television Statistics and Sources”). “Television is the first truly democratic culture-the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.”—Clive Barnes (“Quotation Details”) More and more television shows start adding some exciting scenes in order to satisfy people’s desires. However, teenagers, who haven’t totally developed the ability to think independently, are not ready for those scenes yet. Those television scenes create a negative influence in teenagers’ lives by causing them to make bad decisions.
According to the research, teenagers spend nearly four hours every day on television, and this is their main activity besides sleeping and studying. Among all the television programs, sexual content, including conversations of sex, sex portrayal, and other related materials, comprises 64% of all. Also there are a lot of sex activities happening before their marriages in the television shows. Teenagers who see more sexual scenes from television will start their sexual activities earlier than those who saw less. More specifically, youths who view 90% sexual content from television have a possibility of sexual behavior twice as much as who view only 10% sexual scenes from television. (“Facts and TV Statistics”).
Television even has an influence in teens pregnancies, almost 1 million young women have unplanned pregnancies each year. Teenagers who watch more television with sexual content have higher potential to be involved in the teen pregnancy. The sexual content on television does not usually
According to the research, teenagers spend nearly four hours every day on television, and this is their main activity besides sleeping and studying. Among all the television programs, sexual content, including conversations of sex, sex portrayal, and other related materials, comprises 64% of all. Also there are a lot of sex activities happening before their marriages in the television shows. Teenagers who see more sexual scenes from television will start their sexual activities earlier than those who saw less. More specifically, youths who view 90% sexual content from television have a possibility of sexual behavior twice as much as who view only 10% sexual scenes from television. (“Facts and TV Statistics”).
Television even has an influence in teens pregnancies, almost 1 million young women have unplanned pregnancies each year. Teenagers who watch more television with sexual content have higher potential to be involved in the teen pregnancy. The sexual content on television does not usually
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