What Would TV Do If Sex Didn't Exist?

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If you took all the sexual content out of their shows, TV stations would have to sign off the air by dinner time. Or so one might guess, anyway, after reading a new Kaiser Family Foundation report about sex on TV. And, as the chart indicates, the amount of sexual content has risen significantly in recent years from an already enormous base. (The study analyzed a representative sample of shows on network and local broadcast outlets, basic cable channels and one premium-cable channel.)

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