10대의 성, 세계가 함께...

십대들에게 인기있는 tv쇼에 성관계 내용이 다른 프로에 비해 더 많다는 사실이

조사되었다. 오랄 섹스의 묘사그림 등을 방영하는 정규방송, 안전 섹스를 강의하는

프로 이들외에도 성에관한 무수한 토크 프로들이 있는 데 실제 성교 장면이 한

시간에 5~7회방송되며 이는 1998년의 1,930건에서 3,783건으로 배로 늘어난 숫자란다.

70%이상의 tv프로가 섹스에 관한 것 뿐 아니라 성교 그 자체를 한 시간에수차레씩

내보고 있기에십대들의 성관계는 tv가 다 전달하고 있다고 분통을 터뜨리고 있다.

그러나 대안이나 대책을 제공하지 계속 늘아만 갈 듯, 선진이나 유행이라면 톱을 달리는

우리들 아닌감 머잖어 tv로 리얼섹스를 즐길...그나저나이건 정말 세계적인 공조를

필요로하는 뜨거운 감자 시급한오늘의 화두...

Study: There's more sex in TV shows

A report the Kaiser Family Foundation found the majority of television shows include

some sexual content and the number of scenes is increasing.

BY JENNIFER C. KERR

Associated Press

The O.C., Desperate Housewives and other TV shows popular with teenagers generally have more sex

than other programs, a study says.

TV executives say they're not pushing sex on children and that if parents don't want their kids to see certain

shows, then they have all the tools they need, including the ''off'' button.

According to the study released Wednesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation, the vast majority of TV shows

-- 70 percent -- include some sexual content, with an average of five sex scenes per hour. On the top teen shows,

the number is higher -- 6.7 scenes an hour.

The study examined programming on ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, WB, PBS, Lifetime, TNT, USA Network and HBO.

Sexual content could be anything from discussions about sex to scenes involving intercourse.

The number of scenes involving sex has nearly doubled since 1998, the study said, from 1,930 to 3,783.

Examples of sexual content cited ranged from discussions of sex on the WB's Gilmore Girls to depictions of oral sex

on NBC's Law and Order: Special Victims Unit and sexual intercourse on Fox's The O.C.

The study did not offer an opinion on whether sex on TV is harmful to children. But lead researcher Dale Kunkel

said it's generally established that TV influences kids.

''Their sexual knowledge, attitudes, behaviors are all shaped in part by the characters in stories that television

conveys,'' he said.

Kaiser released the study's findings at a news conference with Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., followed by a panel

discussion with executives from NBC and Fox, Federal Communications Commission Commissioner Kathleen

Abernathy and others.

Obama, the father of two young girls, said he shares the concern of many parents about what their kids are

exposed to on television.

''We don't teach our children that healthy relationships involve drunken, naked parties in a hot tub with strangers

-- but that's what they see when they turn on The Real World,'' he said, citing a show on MTV.

Obama said the television industry needs to do more to help parents better navigate the ever-growing number

of channels and programs. Making TV ratings easier to understand is one way, he said, adding that if broadcasters

and cable don't do more, they are inviting Congress to act.

Tony Vinciquerra, president and chief executive of Fox Networks Group, said parents already have the controls

they

need on cable and satellite to block channels or programs.

Parents with regular over-the-air TV can use the V-chip, technology that's built into televisions and works with

an electronically coded rating system to identify programs that contain sex, violence or crude language.

Vicky Rideout, a vice president at Kaiser, said the number of shows that included a message about the risks and responsibilities of sex is still very small and has remained flat since 2002.

About 14 percent of the shows with sexual content also had discussions of contraception, waiting to have sex or

other ''safer sex'' messages. That figure is about the same as it was in the last study but up from 9 percent in 1998.