BREAKING:It's all the TV's fault

[underpants]

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=1791507

Racy TV Shows Increase Teen Sex Activity, Study Says

April 3, 2006 — The more sexual content in television and magazines that teens are exposed to, the more likely they are to have sexual intercourse at an early age, a new study says.

The University of North Carolina study, published in today's issue of the journal Pediatrics, concludes that white adolescents who view more sexual content than their peers are 2.2 times more likely to have sexual intercourse by the time they are 14 to 16 years old.

And, as similar past studies have noted, "one of the strongest protective factors against early sexual behavior was clear parental communication about sex."



But, as both the authors and other critics note, the analysis has several important limitations. The survey of sexual behavior only included 1,017 teens in three public school districts in North Carolina, and did not take into account exposure to sexual content on the Internet.

[Virginia Dare]

1. This is very interesting...

since teens have been having sex since time began!!!

:wtf:

[MadMaddie]

2. They are sooo stupid...

These same people that are blaming the TV were doing it when they were teens....

[AX10]

3. Irresponsible parents are too blame.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

4. Classic fallacy -- confusing correlation and causality. -nt

[underpants]

6. Right exactly-

This is clearly caused by Shakira videos


:wow:

:bounce:

[Viking12]

7. Exactly. Given the frequency & quantity of TV viewing, nearly anything

could be correlated positively.

[IsItJustMe]

9. I see you stidied statistics.

[wtmusic]

5. I thought it was Elvis' hips? nt

[gratuitous]

15. No, it was that horrid Jim Morrison

Singing "Girl we couldn't get much higher."

[kenny blankenship]

8. Funny. I didn't watch TV during those years

I was too busy being a slut!

[AndyTiedye]

10. They Think if Nobody Ever Mentions Sex, The Kids Won't Know It Exists…

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[grilled onions]

11. What About Our Ancestors?

Before the days of tv,before the days of radio??? Did they blame the antics of farm animals giving the teens ideas?

[The2ndWheel]

12. What TV was I watching 12 years ago?

I must've gotten the defective model. I got nothing when I was 15. Son of a...

[gatorboy]

14. I was fourteen (Happy birthday to me!)

It must have been the A-Team that was the culprit. :P

[gatorboy]

13. Teen Hormones....Why do you hate America?

eom

[The Witch]

16. "one of the strongest protective factors ... was parental communication."

That is the money quote. I will never stop thanking my family for speaking to me up front and directly, giving me honest information and a promise that no matter what mistakes I made in life they'd be there for me. And the choices I made in life... would probably be approved of by the folks clicking their tongues at this article saying "Kids today...!"