May 18, 2009
If you take a
look at mass media aimed at teenagers, you start to see a pattern.
What topic suffuses teenage prime-time dramas? Sex. Movies aimed at
high school boys? Violence. Music popular among the SAT-taking
crowd? Sex and violence. But as Steve Chapman writes, it's far from
clear that raunchy culture actually produces raunchy kids.
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