Earlier this month, the Parents Television Council released a study saying that sexual references during family hour shows increased 77 percent between 1997 and 1999. The falls seasons offerings promise to be even raunchier, said L. Brent Bozell the III, president of the council, who decried the accelerating degradation. Slightly more than half of students were women. Ms. Ward' s previous research found that teen-oriented TV sitcoms refer to sex in 1 out of 4 conversations. She also found that such shows often portray people as sex objects and portray sex as recreational, superficial or inconsequential.
TV can distort viewers.
Heavy soap opera viewers, for instance, overestimate the number of people who divorce or have children out of wedlock. We suport the Disney Boycott. What many people do not know is that the Southern Baptist were not the first denomination to boycott Hollywood. Catholics were the first. In the 1930s, via the Legion of Decency with the support of the clergy, they engaged in a four year battle which eventually brought Hollywood to its knees.