October 9, 2008

MTV is Unnecessarily Sexual

Parents Television Council (PTC) did a study of MTV's Spring Break programming (March 20-27, 2004): 

"In 171 hours of MTV programming, PTC analysts found 1,548 sexual scenes containing 3,056 depictions of sex or various forms of nudity and 2,881 verbal sexual references. That means that children watching MTV are viewing an average of 9 sexual scenes per hour with approximately 18 sexual depictions and 17 instances of sexual dialogue or innuendo. To put this in perspective, consider that in its last study of sex on primetime network television, the PTC found an average of only 5.8 instances of sexual content during the 10 o'clock hour - - when only adults are watching."

This means that every 1.3 minutes there was some type of sexual content on MTV! 
1.3 MINUTES! Is that really necessary? Is that really what kids and teens want? 

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