Apr 25, 2006

“Teens are defaulting to entertainment media for sexual information because they are not getting this information in other places,” said Dr. Jane D. Brown, a professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina.

The full article appears on www.vnunet.com 

The article is based on Brown’s research published in Pediatrics: Jane D. Brown, Kelly Ladin L’Engle, Carol J. Pardun, Guang Guo, Kristin Kenneavy, and Christine Jackson. Sexy Media Matter: Exposure to Sexual Content in Music, Movies, Television and Magazines Predicts Black and White Adolescents’ Sexual Behavior. Pediatrics, April 2006; 117: 1018-27.