> Kids Shouldn't Be Learning About Sex from TV
>

>Zaroc Stone wrote:

>> Kids Shouldn't Be Learning About Sex from TV
>>

>Learn to use your V chip, moron.

> Kids Shouldn't Be Learning About Sex from TV
>
> By Kelli Conlin, AlterNet. Posted September 19, 2008.
>
> Kids that don't get sex ed in school don't run to the Bible for
> information -- they get their ideas about sex from sordid teen dramas.
> The New York streets are filled with posters advertising the return of
> the hit TV show Gossip Girl: photogenic teens embrace beneath a quote
> proclaiming that the show is "Every parent's nightmare." While Gossip
> Girl may be filled with the endless sexual encounters of high school
> students, the fictionalized private school is not this parent's
> September nightmare. My real-life nightmare is that kids are once
> again beginning a school year that will most likely not provide them
> with comprehensive sex education, leaving them at the mercy of shows
> such as Gossip Girl and the revamped 90210.
>
> Unfortunately teen melodrama hardly pretends to provide the important
> information young people need to keep themselves healthy and safe.
> Rarely is there discussion of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), ...