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MTV influences on teenagers

ar as I’ve known, the popular pop singer Bridney Spear usually wears tight-fitting silver pants and expose one third of her belly. So does Christina Anguila, who is also a famous singer. Sexual imagery and provocative pictures of young girls and women are being used in music videos. In 1993, the movie “Girl on film” clearly showed the importance of sex in music video in term of making profits. In the different forms of representing it such as whole body in sheet or shallow, its common purpose is to provoke or arise viewer’s sexuality that they will watch it longer. According to the documentary film “Dream World II: Desire, sex, and power in music video” by Sut Jhally, sex could possibly cause many serious and unpredictable problems whose the victim are both distressed physically and psychologically. Vo 5Each year, teenagers view nearly 15000 sexual references innuendoes, and jokes, of which *170 will deal with abstinence birth control, sexually transmitted diseases, or pregnancy. (Donnerstein 2). I was awestruck to learn from the above article that “A study of 326 Cleveland teenagers showed that those with a preference for Music Television had increased amounts of sexual experience in their mid-teen years” (Donnorstein 4). Anyone who watched “The accused” would probably be able to imaging how sore it was to witness a young lady who was raped by a bunch of guys in a bar. In relating to my own personal experience when I was growing up, I seized the matter of being a teenager. Youngsters learn to make their own decisions base on the facts and opinions from friends, society, and family. To me, family advices seem to be the least effective compare to the society’s message. Imaging a girl who tries to mimic a rock star, I was disappointed. She wears expensive clothes, sexy high-heels, and gets herself a tattoo on the arms or pierces her lip. Thinking about a young man who tries...

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