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"Sexual Readiness, Household Policies, and Other Predictors of Adolescents' Exposure to Sexual Content in Mainstream Entertainment Television"

Media Psychology
Available online.
"This study identifies the prospective predictors of exposure to television’s sexual content with a particular emphasis on the contributions of teenagers’ sexual readiness versus household television policies. Though believing that one’s friends approve of sex and having greater noncoital sexual experience predicted heavier viewing of sexual content in the subsequent year, household restrictions had a nearly equal and opposite effect."
Accessible through the Communication and Mass Media Complete database.

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