Mediated Sex in the Media


Now and days movies are getting away with a lot more things then they did a few years back. Their is more violence, sex, drugs and profanity then there has ever been in the movie industry. Is it because of the desensitization theory that movie producers and directors want to have more of this in their films. Two Theories toward sexual behavior include social cognitive theory and nourishing theory. Cultivation theory names television as the main cultural storyteller and viewers pick up what they perceive to be cultural norms and whether or not indisputable behaviors are allow in society. As a result, heavy t.v. watchers may require a distorted view of reality based on what they see on television. In the movie American Psycho we have various categories in which you can content analyze mediated sex.