Nudity and sexual activity

Nudity and sexual activity in the media

(soft and hard pornography): harming individuals and damaging society

by P.G.Nelson

Contents

Introduction

1 Harm done by nudity and sexual activity in the media

2 Other assessments

3 Need for control

4 Controlling nudity and sexual activity in the media

Acknowledgements

I am grateful to everyone who has helped me in the writing of this booklet, and to

Whittles Publishing Services for being willing to produce it. I am also grateful to

the many readers who commented favourably on earlier editions, for their encouragement.

SEX IN THE MEDIA

Summary

One in forty girls conceive before they are sixteen, one in eightbefore they are eighteen.
One in five families with dependent children have only one parent. Two in five marriages end in divorce. Family breakdown has an adverse effect on children, making them more likely to misbehave and underachieve.
One in six children (one in four girls and one in eleven boys) are sexually abused.
One in fifteen women are raped or sexually assaulted. Macho violence (hooliganism, yobbishness, thuggery) is endemic.

Sex in the media is a major cause of these problems. As the amount and explicitness of sex in the media have grown over the past fifty years, so these problems have grown.
Present methods of maintaining standards in the media are failing. Regulatory bodies are concerned only with offence caused, not harm done. A wholly unrealistic onus is placed on parents to protect their children.
The Government should reform the Obscene Publications Act, and establish a public body to maintain standards that take account of harm done and parental limitations. It should at least have a Royal Commission on the issue. The health of society is at stake.

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