How Is Sexual Media Affecting Adolescents?

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Sexual media consumes a large part of the world’s attention and revenue, surrounding us. This media is consumed not only by adults, but college students and adolescents, and it’s affecting them significantly. The major forms are pornography, sexual music videos, and social media. Sexual media is known to create sexual scripts, the sexual cues and scenarios that allow us to both process and enjoy sex. Once these scripts are formed, they lead to physical behavior that generally follows the script. In pornography, most sexual scripts include condomless sex, which has led to a significant increase of condomless sex in college students. Pornography has recently introduced scripts of online sexual experimentation, or sexting. This has affected adolescents

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