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More sex, Less Side Effects
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1999 More sex, Less Side Effects The Centre for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA) has released a study of the sexual content of primetime broadcast television, premium and basic cable, music videos and popular movies for the 1998-1999 viewing season. The study examined 284 TV series episodes (2 from each show), 50 TV movies, 189 MTV music videos, and the 50 top-grossing feature films of 1998. This study is accompanied by two others, "Merchandizing Mayhem", which examines violence in the media, and "The Rude and the Crude", which studies the use of profane language in popular culture. - Researchers identified 5,152 separate scenes featuring sexual dialogue or behaviour, including 1,420 scenes containing images or dialogue of a "hard-core" nature (ie; sexual intercourse, oral sex, incest and other sexually explicit behaviour). - Network shows averaged one scene containing sexual behaviour or discussion for every four minutes of running time during the 1998-99 season. - Premium cable...
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