TV: Still dripping with sex; Bedrooms? Not so much...
Good work, Hollywood! In just seven years, The Hollywood Reporter heralds that we’ve doubled the number of sex scenes on TV, per a new report by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
For those keeping score, (Heh-heh. You said, ‘score.’) there were 3,800 scenes with sexual content spotted in more than 1,100 shows studied – a rise from about 1,900 such scenes in 1998.
Better still:
Vicky Rideout, a vice president at Kaiser, says the number of shows that included a message about the risks and responsibilities of sex is still very small, and has remained flat since 2002.
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