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It
is no shock to you when I say that we live in a world and society today
that is obsessed with sex. Sex is used to sell everything from cars to
soft drinks to chewing gum to a new football league. Magazine covers
feature barely clothed young women, and the article titles say things
like "50 Ways to Drive Your Man Wild in Bed."
We find graphic depictions of sexual activity in novels, science fiction,
music, movies and television. In fact, current statistics show that 2/3
of all network prime time television includes sexual content—averaging
more than five scenes an hour!
It has been well documented that exposure to large amounts of sexually oriented content changes the way a society views sex--especially how the young people view it. The result is that by age 15, 44 percent have engaged in some level of sexual activity and by graduation from high school, that figure is over 80 percent. The United States, where the largest proportion of sexually-explicit movies are produced, has the highest rate of teen pregnancies in the industrialized world—nearly a million a year. Additionally, three million teens are infected with some form of STD (sexually transmitted disease) every year. And every single hour, two people between 13 and 24 will contract HIV.
The common belief among many youth today is that sex is something to be experimented with freely. Some have reasoned that only sexual intercourse is actually sex and so anything else is OK because it isn't really sex and so it isn't really wrong. These teens conclude that as long as both of you want to do it, what's the problem?
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