Part 1 of Essay
Once upon a time in the “Golden Age” of television, networks deferred to their own in-house offices of standards, which kept profanity, questionable morals, and salacious behavior off the airwaves. Today’s standard- free TV shows are obsessed with sex and it is very obvious to even the most casual viewer. ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... of the sexual content is talk. About one- fourth of the shows (twenty- three) percent actually depict sexual behavior- usually passionate kissing- and three percent show the characters having intercourse. Eight percent of the shows include sexual content involving teenagers. did not just happen over night. It has evolved from what we now consider extreme minimal sexual contact. For example, in the fifties, “I Love Lucy”- a show based on a middle class family (the Ricardos) living in New York City. The ....