Kids’ Sexual Behavior Influenced by Movie Scenes: Study

July 19th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

THURSDAY, July 19 (HealthDay News) — Sex scenes in movies
influence teens’ sexual behavior, new research suggests.

In the study, U.S. researchers analyzed the sexual content of hundreds
of top-grossing movies released between 1998 and 2004, and then asked more
than 1,200 kids, aged 12 to 14, which of the movies they had seen.

Six years later, the participants were surveyed to find out how old
they were when they became sexually active and whether they engaged in
risky sexual behaviors, such as not using condoms consistently and having
multiple partners.

Teens who were exposed to more sexual content in movies started having
sex at younger ages, had more sex partners and were less likely to use
condoms with casual sex partners, according to the study authors.

In an attempt to determine how sex scenes in movies can affect teens’
sexual behavior, the researchers focused on a personality trait called
sensation-seeking. This trait, which peaks between the ages of 10 and 15,
refers to a tendency to seek new and intense forms of stimulation.

The study, which is scheduled for publication in the journal
Psychological Science, found that greater exposure to sexual
content in movies at a young age led to a higher peak of sensation-seeking
in adolescents. Among kids who are exposed to sex scenes in movies,
sensation-seeking sexual behavior can last well into the late teens and
even into the early 20s, the investigators found.

“These movies appear to fundamentally influence their personality
through changes in sensation-seeking, which has far-reaching implications
for all of their risk-taking behaviors,” Ross O’Hara, a postdoctoral
fellow at the University of Missouri, said in a news release from the
Association for Psychological Science.

O’Hara conducted the study with other psychological researchers while
at Dartmouth College.

Sensation-seeking alone does not entirely explain how sexual content in
movies influences teens’ sexual behavior, according to O’Hara and
colleagues. They suggested that teens learn specific behaviors from sex
scenes in movies. For example, many teens use movies to acquire “sexual
scripts” that provide them with examples of how to behave when dealing
with complicated emotional situations.

While the study authors pointed out that the research does not prove a
direct causal effect of movies on sexual behavior, the study “strongly
suggests that parents need to restrict their children from seeing sexual
content in movies at young ages,” O’Hara concluded in the news
release.

More information

The American Academy of Family Physicians offers facts to help teens
make the right decision about sex.