1.0 Introduction This report critically analyzes sexual content in TV shows and how it impacts adolescents. Statistically, the average teenager spends three hours a day watching television. The typical modern television show contains a huge amount of sexual content, from harmless kisses to scenes of sexual intercourse. Sex is usually presented as a normal activity without serious consequences. According to many studies, it is well known that the stories that immature adolescents watch on television can influence their lives. Media representations involving sexuality contribute to the sexual socialization of young people. Watching highly sexual television programs can shape a teenager's sexual behavior patterns. According to Brown (Brown, Greenberg and Buerkel-Rothfuss, 1993) many adolescents are not able to receive useful information about sex from their parents, this is why they usually use the alternative way to find this information through the media. A 1996 Kaiser Family survey (Kaiser Family Foundation, 1996; 1998) shows that a quarter of all young people said they learned a lot about pregnancy from television programs, and 40% of them got ideas about how to talk about sexuality. problems. In these modern times the media has the power to influence the public and especially the younger public who are developing their own view of sex. It is not surprising that the lack of useful sexual information is one of the reasons for the spread of sex-related diseases. According to the American Social Health Association (1998), there are nearly ten million new cases of sexually transmitted diseases among adolescents each year... middle of paper... essays can be found in more than half of television programs ( 1999). 56% of television programs have sexual content, for example they talk about sex or sexual behavior. A statistic from the same research shows that in a typical TV show there are more than three sexual scenes per hour. As it is said in the introduction of the report, the average teenager spends more than twenty hours a week watching television (Nielsen, 1998), which is why television programs especially influence younger viewers. There is no doubt that modern television programs have too much sexual content, which could have a bad influence on young people. It is not possible to remove or reduce sexual content, but providing more health information could help many young people make the right choice, which in some cases could save their lives..