What Children learn

Thirty years after the sexual revolution, twenty years after the gay revolution, and ten years after the "I did not have sex with that woman", the NYTimes questions what we are teaching our children...

"Although a great deal is known about the effects of mass media on other adolescent behaviors, such as eating, smoking and drinking, we know basically nothing about the effects of mass media on adolescent sexual behaviors," the report's principal investigator, S. Liliana Escobar-Chaves of the university's Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research, concluded.

But to hazard a guess based on clear evidence that media representations influence teenage eating, smoking and drinking habits, adolescents are almost certainly affected — negatively — by sexual references and images from television, in movies and video games, in music, in magazines and on Web sites.

Hmmm....maybe James Dobson was RIGHT?

Who wudda thot?