Televisão e educação sexual

Abstract

 

The author describes television as a factor of influence in the sexual (mis)education in adolescence. He considers the role of eroticism in televison as a disfuncional factor in the sexual education of youth. In accordance with its pervasion, accesibility and attractive and seductive contents TV may be considered an alternative source and an efficient instrument of sexual (mis)education, because adolescents find in it a lot of information that satisfies their curiosity about the sexual world of adults. This occurs through a process of more and more explicit eroticism that abuses the freedom of sexual expression and exihibition and transmits all kinds of sexual information: faithful, correct, tendencious, preconceptual, ambiguous and distorted.