common ways the media is stereotypical in regards to teen sexuality

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  • Common ways the media is stereotypical in regards to teen sexuality
    • Homo sexuality is shown as a threat to hetero sexuality or as a joke
    • Gay teenagers are rarely represented, if they are it focuses on the anxiety they experience from not being accepted
    • There is an assumption that teenagers aged 16+ are sexually active
    • Magazines aimed at girls and boys promoted different agendas, reinforcing a gender divide
    • Lesbianism was presented as a titilation from a male perspective. It is commonly tolerated
    • Most characteristic were white, thin, conventionally attractive with no visable disability

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