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social science subjects > sociology > gender and sexuality > portrayals of sexual risk and responsibility

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portrayals of sexual risk and responsibility  

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  • While a large body of research funded by the Kaiser Family Foundation has shown that televised portrayals of sex and sexuality are common across the television landscape, this same research has also indicated that portrayals of sexual risk and responsibility topics (e.g., abstinence, condom use, safe sex) are noticeably lacking. Thus, while watching television, young people are learning incomplete scripts for sexual behavior. [Source: Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media; Sexual Risk and Responsibility, Portrayals of]

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