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Sex Being Attacked by the Mainstream Media?
By: J.K. Wilson
Sex, as well
as violence, has always been used to increase an
audience across all platforms of media, especially
where video is involved. Starting
in the late 1980’s, sex was an element in most
movies, late night drama TV shows, and especially mainstream
music. The question to be asked: what kind of
sex was it, and what kind of sex are we seeing now?
For the last
10 years, there have been staggering increases in: 1.
the number of crime, law, and legal enforcement television
shows. 2. The number of fake,
depicted scenarios of rapes, sexual assaults, and various
other harmful acts either resulting from or leading
to a morally questionable sexual act, in media, and
3. The number of real acts of various sexual
assaults being reported in the news media.
The
American public, known to heavily invest a large amount
of free time watching hours of television and internet
coverage, has slowly been introduced to a different,
darker view of sex than during the start of the
television era for American viewers.
Even a consideration
of the last 5 years can be used for analysis in any
debate of sex in the mainstream media. One
question remains: Is the increase in coverage of
sexual violence in the media a result of
an increase in actual acts, or the cause of
an increase in the actual acts? Do the media
bear any responsibility
for these increases?
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