Though this may be true for dramas on television, I have found these stereotypes to represent one type of character for males and females. From what I have observed in movies and television today, there are another set of masculine and feminine gender scripts that are portrayed in movies and TV shows (especially in comedies), which are the hopeless nerd (usually for males) and the cute but not sexually interested in best friend (often females). ... This idea that teens are hypersexual, and in this case here, male teens, is true throughout many teen comedies and sex comedies. ...

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" his friend Vanessa probes. ... The show follows beautiful, blonde socialite, Serena Van Der Woodsen and her best friend yet sometimes rival, Blair Waldorf. ... In later episodes it is revealed that there were two reasons for Serena's disappearance from home: she had slept with her best friend Blair's boyfriend, Nate Archibald, and she had accidentally killed a man by giving him an overdose of drugs. ... Yet despite this fact, parents are still in denial that this is a true representation of what their teens are doing on the weekends. ...

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Introduction Many children watch television everyday, and recent studies indicate that children watch between three to four hours of television a day. Even more astounding is the fact that children spend about 38 hours a week either watching television, playing video games, listening to music, an...

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Child abuse is a global problem that is deeply rooted in cultural, economic and social practices. It is a state of emotional, physical, economic and sexual maltreatment meted out to a person below the age of eighteen and is a globally prevalent phenomenon. However, in India, as in many other countri...

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In society today, people are faced with having premarital sex. Premarital sex is when a women and man have sex before they are married. The controversy over premarital sex has never been more profound than it is today. The very mention of the word brings forth radically different reactions. At one t...

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"Sexual Violence- While the crimes of "rape- and "incest- have been on the statute books for hundreds of years, it was not until the 1970s that "sexual violence- was more fully explored and developed as a concept. Feminists drew attention to the fact that rape (then conceptualised as sexual ...

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Sex offenders are a highly diverse group of people, but all are individuals who have at least one of the following crimes in common: have committed violent sexual assault on a stranger, have had inappropriate sexual contact with a family member, have molested a child or any other inappropriate and criminal sexual behavior. Currently, in the United States, there are a total of 722,499 individuals who are registered sex offenders (U.S. Census Bureau, 2010). However, this number does not reflect every person who has committed a sexual offense. Research shows that a lot of cases go unreported whi...

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