Article: Mass media made them do it?(Sexual Teens, Sexual Media: Investigating Media's Influence on Adolescent Sexuality)(Book Review)

Sexual Teens, Sexual Media: Investigating Media's Influence on Adolescent Sexuality. Edited by Jane D. Brown, Jeanne R. Steele, and Kim Walsh-Childers. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002, 308 pages. Paper, $29.95.

From Anthony Comstock's late 19th-century crusade against "obscene" literature to present-day parents' anxious suspicion that news reports on the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky scandal introduced adolescents to oral sex, Americans have blamed the mass media for inciting youth to ostensibly inappropriate sexual behavior. That the media powerfully shape teens' sexual lives to generally deleterious effect is widely taken for granted by ...

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