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Sexy TV shows linked to teen pregnancies

Sex education without moral teaching= more pregnancies, more abortions, more STD and more ruined lives (especially the children). But some will not be convinced. "Don't confuse me with facts (the facts this research proves) my mind is made up"! The more teenagers see and hear about sex without moral guidance, the more problems they, society and future generations will have.

"Groundbreaking research"? Things like this seem pretty obvious to me.

While I'm all for free speech, the cost to our country from Hollywood's excesses is staggering. Well, duh . . any reasonable parent could tell you teen sexual activity and pregnancy are related to the "popular culture" (MTV, R and X rated movies, and even many PG-13 movies, and the raunchy TV shows)

There is no socially redeeming value to this trash - why don't we tax it - the government is always looking for a way to increase revenue. Why not do so in a way which benefits our society?

Finally, confirmation of what we have all really believed. After reading this can anyone really justify their "right" to view pornography because it causes no harm? I had a teen girl tell me that she links her pregnancy to when she started to view R rated movies.

DUH!

You mean what goes into one's mind influences their behavior??? Amazing! Whodathunkit.

Who in the world was so dumb they didn't see this one coming? It's a big Homer Duhh!

Companies spend millions of dollars to advertise goods and services on TV, hoping to influence our buying habits. If such commercials had no influence on our buying habits, that spending would stop.

People will buy what the show advertises. If it is sex, then that's what you influence.

If its violence? Duhh, indeed!

If people think it is so obvious that watching sexually saturated shows is linked to pregnancy, I would also like to submit that watching violent shows is linked to violent behavior. Same obvious results! I am amazed that some people think that what they watch and listen to has no effect on their behavior!!!

Is this a cause and effect relationship, or do sexually active teens tend to also exist in an environment where they watch more of this stuff as an aside? I imagine they also engage in other destructive and anti social behaviours, but no one is linking increased drug use to watching desperate housewives. We've an unhealthy attitude towards sex, and a lot of things in this nation and especially in Utah. Don't be surprised that a lot of people slip through the fingers of the tightened grasp.

I think it is time to teach about sexual relations, and stop talking about the bee and the flower!!!

Talking about how our body works is not "inmoral" or "not religious", it is important and more safe for our kids and youth!!!

Turn of the @#%! TV!

sex sales, and that's all the programmers and advertisers care about - selling. They don't care about the consequences.

Media will never change for the better. That's why we shut it off! This article just reinforces our lifestyle decision.

My teenagers read, study, set up games in fields for the neighborhood kids, ride bikes, make stop-action movies, have jobs . . . just not enough time in the world for the stupidity of TV and movies. We see maybe two movies a month, and even then we feel like we could have been doing something more constructive with our time.

Duh!

Now let's find some kid who got an STD (like AIDS) in part, due to the influence of suggestive entertainment, and sue them down to their shorts.

Porn may be legal; however, they should have to clean up the mess they leave behind.

As a tennager, I watched nothing but "Little House on the Prairie" reruns, and I didn't even HAVE hormones. I am incapable of saying, thinking or doing ANYTHINg unless it's on TV first.

I'm with "ground breaking research". Duh!

I might watch the news once or twice a week if even that. I have better things to do with my time than fill my mind with worthless crap.

For this information someone paid scientific researchers?????

Dear Groundbreaking???,

Homer Simpson says "D'oh" not Duhhh like you wrote.

Here's the truth about this study: It means nothing.

I could make a similar argument that teenage boys who watch sports are more likely to participate in sports, when the opposite is probably the case. The boys watch sports because they play them first. The initial act leads to the viewing of a related act. These girls who are getting pregnant seek out the sexy TV shows. They have that predisposed interest in sex, so they seek out validation for it. The fact that this study was even published is ridiculous. Good for a laugh though.