Research from the University of California—Los Angeles (UCLA) indicates that younger audiences are increasingly favoring television shows and movies that do not contain sexual content.
The newly published report, titled “Teens and Screens,” found that 62.4 percent of teenagers and young adults aged 14 to 24 believe that sexual content is not required to advance the plot of television programs and films.
The survey, conducted by UCLA’s Center for Scholars & Storytellers (CSS), a nonprofit organization focused on psychology research and media creation, polled 1,644 adolescents between the ages of 10 and 24 about their perceptions of various types of media.
The report notes that children under the age of 13 were not asked questions related to sex. Nevertheless, 63.5 percent of those surveyed still preferred storylines that feature platonic relationships instead of romantic ones….