TV sex begats teen sex
As the article below states, here we have a study catching up with common sense, as will be reported in the November issue of Pediatrics according to Finda.com today.
If adults watch porn to become sexually aroused, it naturally follows that the soft porn shows on MTV and cable and suggestive shows on network TV will have a similar impact on teens.
Note it is a comprehensive sex ed proponent who downplays the results. Now why is that?
Groundbreaking research suggests that pregnancy rates are much higher among teens who watch a lot of TV with sexual dialogue and behaviour compared with those who have tamer viewing tastes.
Sex and the City was one of the shows used in the research.
The new study is the first to link those viewing habits with teen pregnancy, said lead author Anita Chandra, a Rand Corp. behavioural scientist.
Teens who watched the raciest shows were twice as likely to become pregnant over the next 3 years as those who watched few such programs….
Previous research by some of the same scientists had already found that watching lots of sex on TV can influence teens to have sex at earlier ages.
Shows that only highlight the positive aspects of sexual behaviour without the risks can lead teens to have unprotected sex “before they’re ready to make responsible and informed decisions,” Chandra said.
The study was released in the November issue of Pediatrics. It involved 2003 12- to 17-year-old girls and boys nationwide questioned by telephone about their TV viewing habits in 2001.
Teens were re-interviewed twice, the last time in 2004, and asked about pregnancy. Among girls, 58 became pregnant during the follow-up, and among boys, 33 said they had gotten a girl pregnant.
Participants were asked how often they watched any of more than 20 TV shows popular among teens at the time or which were found to have lots of sexual content. These included Sex and the City, That 70’s Show and Friends.
Pregnancies were twice as common among those who said they watched such shows regularly, compared with teens who said they hardly ever saw them.
There were more pregnancies among the oldest teens interviewed but the rate of pregnancy remained consistent across all age groups among those who watched the racy programs.
Chandra said TV-watching was strongly connected with teen pregnancy even when other factors were considered, including grades, family structure and parents’ education level.
But the study did not adequately address other issues, such as self-esteem, family values and income, contends Elizabeth Schroeder, executive director of Answer, a Rutgers University-based teen sex education program.
“The media does have an impact but we don’t know the full extent of it because there are so many other factors,” Schroeder said.
But Bill Albert, chief program officer at the nonprofit National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, praised the study and said it “catches up with common sense.”
“Media helps shape the social script for teenagers. Most parents know that. This is just good research to confirm that,” Albert said.
Still, US teen pregnancies were on a 15-year decline until a 3% rise in 2006, the latest data available. Experts think that could be just be a statistical blip.
And Albert noted that the downward trend occurred as TV shows were becoming more sexualised, confirming that “it’s not the only influence.”
Psychologist David Walsh, president of the National Institute on Media and the Family, cited data suggesting only about 19% of American teens say they can talk openly with a trusted adult about sex. With many schools not offering sex education, that leaves the media to serve as a sex educator, he said.
“For a kid who no one’s talking to about sex, and then he watches sit-coms on TV where sex is presented as this is what the cool people do,” the outcome is obvious, Walsh said.
He said the message to parents is to talk to their kids about sex long before children are teens. Parents also should be watching what their kids watch and helping filter messages sex-filled shows are sending, he said.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Don’t blame Sex and the City, blame people who can’t tell the difference between fiction and reality. They’re probably the same people who don’t know the difference between the internet and reality.
Plus the women on the show are all older, not teenagers and it ends with Miranda choosing not to abort her baby and instead gives birth, raising it and eventually marrying the father; Charlotte getting married and having two children and Carrie marries John. I don’t think that’s evil incarnate.
And the show also shows the negative effects of sex; broken hearts, STDs, moral outrage…
And it deals with other issues like the episode where Charlotte, believing she was infertile ends up conceiving only to lose her baby in a miscarriage. Afterwards it deals with her trying to overcome the pain, she decides to throw a baby shower for Miranda only to break down she sees a baby rattle like the one her husband bought for their baby before it died. She eventually overcomes the pain however and is able to be there for Miranda and her new baby.
Spoiler- In the movie she and her husband adopted a baby and she eventually finds herself pregnant again. Overcome with fear of losing the child she puts herself into a sort of seclusion, worried she might have another miscarriage. She ends up overcoming the fear to continue with her life and eventually have a healthy baby girl.
The episode where Miranda decides not to have an abortion takes place right after Charlotte finds out she might be infertile. Charlotte in angry that Miranda has a baby, what Charlotte wants more then anything, and is thinking about killing it. Carrie goes with Miranda to the clinic and Miranda asks Carrie how long it took her to get over her abortion. Carrie say’s “Any day now.” Sensing Miranda has doubts she says, “You don’t have to do this.” Miranda decides to keep the baby and Carrie walks with her back to her apartment. Charlotte, believing Miranda had the abortion realizes her friends still needs her, now more then ever. She brings flowers over to her house where Carrie and Samantha are sitting with Miranda and Charlotte tells her no matter what she will be there for her. Charlotte is overjoyed to here that Miranda did not have the abortion and Carrie ends the episode by saying, “That day three aunts (referring to her, Charlotte and Samantha) were born.”
Look at the shows aimed at teenagers, especially on the CW:
Gossip Girl
New 90210 show
other shows that were aimed at teens that had sexual promiscuity:
Dawson’s Creek
For real Jess, I love Sex and the City. Don’t knock it!!
You know, it’s a little frightening when people get so upset over a tv show.
I think the story was just saying that the racy content could give kids a higher chance of sexual activity and I would absolutely agree.
Of course it’s fun and interesting to watch – most of it is, but that doesn’t make it wholesome or good for kids regardless.
Turn off the stupid TV and have popcorn with your kids. Spend the time doing something important, and that will help your kids too…
“We have a righteous wind at our back.”
~ Barack Obama speaking to CO supporters over the weekend, as quoted by ABC News, November 2
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Maybe that ‘righteous wind’ will just blow em right on back to Munchkin Land where the wizard of uuuuhhhhzzz, the o’bama (pbuh), can follow the yellow brick road to end of the rainbow where his throne awaits his royal and glorious gluteni maximi.
yor bro ken
Teens who watched the raciest shows were twice as likely to become pregnant over the next 3 years as those who watched few such programs….
It’s amazing that a study is even needed to prove something that should be common sense. It always surprises me when there are people out there who really see no connection between sexual behavior in teens, and the sexual programs on TV.
Maybe that ‘righteous wind’ will just blow em right on back to Munchkin Land where the wizard of uuuuhhhhzzz, the o’bama (pbuh), can follow the yellow brick road to end of the rainbow where his throne awaits his royal and glorious gluteni maximi.
You are my favorite person tonight, Kbhvac!
Wonder how much $$$ was spent on this study? I agree, Bethany. Common sense.
Allena I miss my family so much : ( In fact I’m going to try to get my work done early so I can come home the weekend before Thanksgiving and spend the whole week with them. But shhhh it’s a surprise ; )
I’m not getting worked up about this, I just wanted people to know what the show was about, it’s not all one night stands and shoe shopping. It’s a really good show, I think some people on here would actually like it more then they think.
I don’t watch shows with sexual content. Its a rule of mine. I hated the Titanic movie with Kate and Leo because of the profanity and the sex and nudity.
I agree with Carla and Bethany.
The problem with the show is that it is so far removed from reality. Most of it revolves around sex. Please, most people have more to focus upon in life than sex as often as these silly women do. In addition, they don’t show the consequences of having multiple sexual partners such as sexually transmitted diseases or the emotional emptiness that comes from just being used. Young people are taken in by the glamor and are not shown the real consequences of sexual activity outside of a committed relationship — marriage
I think because sex is such a big part of life, it’s how we were created, it is obvious it would be a big part of shows that deal with real life. Even the Simpson’s and Family Guy deal a lot with sex and sexual situations and it’s interesting to note that these are shows that depict a family consisting of a married mother and father and children and an extended family of grandparents, aunts and uncles. Also both families go to church regularly.
I love the fact that in Family Guy the husband is Catholic and the wife is Protestant and the husbands father is always making little quips about the wife’s religion. It reminds me so much of my family, lol.
Grandfather- Lois, you’re a good woman. Perhaps you won’t go to hell just Purgatory with all the unbaptized babies.
Husband- You hear that Lois you love kids!
Elleen read my first three posts. The show does not only deal with random hook ups it also deals with marriage, divorce, births, abortion, miscarriage, STD’s, broken hearts and the power of friendship.
Family Guy is hardly quality entertainment. The creator is a bitter ex Catholic. Neither show has a family that’s good role models.
I loved ‘7th Heaven’ because they dealt with topics like teen sex and pregnancy in a good way. There was never mention of abortion. They even had an episode where SAFE HAVEN was used.
Oh yeah Jess! I’m way too addicted to Family Guy. Actually, I”m glad you quoted the line you did because I always use it to show how prevalent misunderstandings of the Catholic faith is. So what the writers meant to say was “limbo” not purgatory. But even then, Lois is past the age of reason, so even if Limbo exists, Lois would not go to it. From every angle you look at it, their understanding of Catholic theology is completely wrong. It’s some real theological confusion that the writers show!
Jess,
that’s a joke, Family Guy is an awful show that children should not watch. family guy is produced by a radical liberal too.
Yeah but Bobby is it really feasible that the Pope would come to Rhode Island and help Peter and his Dad reconcile?
Peter- That’s Harvard.
Pope- No that’s just a barn.
Peter- Oh I see someone was a Yale man.
Jasper, my Protestant Grandma once told me she doesn’t trust Catholic priests because “There’s something wrong with someone who doesn’t want to get married and have children.”
No one ever said that entertainment had to be quality. A lot of my entertainment is trashy and gruesome, and that’s exactly why I like it! Entertainment can be stimulating or it can be mindless- and they’re both useful depending on the situation.
South Park- that is *quality* television programming. :D
That’s right rae!! Nothing like having guinea pig monsters and guantanamo bay prisoners in the same episode :)
Oh no! Bobby! Please don’t tell me that you also watch Futurama?! I can usually steer my husband away from the Family Guy but not Futurama. :D Actually, I find myself laughing at Futurama in spite of myself!
IMO, South Park had it right when they said that Family Guy was written by manitees.
Is this study a no-brainer or what? How much money did they spend to find this out? God help us. Please pro-lifers pray for our youth and young people, the stakes could not be higher for our youth. People are worried about money and the economy. What good is money and the economy when teenwire.com is indoctrinating your kids to sell their bodies and souls to PP? Jesus said “What will it profit a man to gain the whole world, but lose his soul? We would sell our youth for 30 pieces of silver, for a tax credit and to send a message that we hate Bush. Wow! God help this nation.
is this kinda like “back masking” in the late 70’s and early 80’s.. and rock bands make you become a devil worshiper.
I had sex at age 16… and lived in a super conservative home that wouldn’t let me watch TV… Oh, wait.. maybe Sarah Palins daughter watches to much TV also…
wait.. maybe if your daughter is watching TV.. you know where she is… so she won’t be having sex….
Maybe Sarah Palin should stay home and make sure her other daughters aren’t exploring Alaska… if you know what I mean..
Was there a lot of profanity in Titanic? I can’t remember…
And as far as sex scenes go..lol..that was pretty tame. A sweaty window with a hand print…lol. I mean you gotta laugh at that.
P.S. Bobby- Don’t let Beas get confused and think Family Guy is just another cartoon. I’ve come home sometimes and my brothers and Gabriella are laying on the floor together watching it. Grrrr…
The most important thing we’ve learned,
So far as children are concerned,
Is never, NEVER, NEVER let
Them near your television set–
Or better still, just don’t install
The idiotic thing at all.
In almost every house we’ve been,
We’ve watched them gaping at the screen.
They loll and slop and lounge about,
And stare until their eyes pop out.
(Last week in someone’s place we saw
A dozen eyeballs on the floor.)
They sit and stare and stare and sit
Until they’re hypnotised by it,
Until they’re absolutely drunk
With all that shocking ghastly junk.
Oh yes, we know it keeps them still,
They don’t climb out the window sill,
They never fight or kick or punch,
They leave you free to cook the lunch
And wash the dishes in the sink–
But did you ever stop to think,
To wonder just exactly what
This does to your beloved tot?
IT ROTS THE SENSE IN THE HEAD!
IT KILLS IMAGINATION DEAD!
IT CLOGS AND CLUTTERS UP THE MIND!
IT MAKES A CHILD SO DULL AND BLIND
HE CAN NO LONGER UNDERSTAND
A FANTASY, A FAIRYLAND!
HIS BRAIN BECOMES AS SOFT AS CHEESE!
HIS POWERS OF THINKING RUST AND FREEZE!
HE CANNOT THINK–HE ONLY SEES!
‘All right!’ you’ll cry. ‘All right!’ you’ll say,
‘But if we take the set away,
What shall we do to entertain
Our darling children? Please explain!’
We’ll answer this by asking you,
‘What used the darling ones to do?
‘How used they keep themselves contented
Before this monster was invented?’
Have you forgotten? Don’t you know?
We’ll say it very loud and slow:
THEY…USED…TO…READ! They’d READ and READ,
AND READ and READ, and then proceed
To READ some more. Great Scott! Gadzooks!
One half their lives was reading books!
The nursery shelves held books galore!
Books cluttered up the nursery floor!
And in the bedroom, by the bed,
More books were waiting to be read!
Such wondrous, fine, fantastic tales
Of dragons, gypsies, queens, and whales
And treasure isles, and distant shores
Where smugglers rowed with muffled oars,
And pirates wearing purple pants,
And sailing ships and elephants,
And cannibals crouching ’round the pot,
Stirring away at something hot.
(It smells so good, what can it be?
Good gracious, it’s Penelope.)
The younger ones had Beatrix Potter
With Mr. Tod, the dirty rotter,
And Squirrel Nutkin, Pigling Bland,
And Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and-
Just How The Camel Got His Hump,
And How the Monkey Lost His Rump,
And Mr. Toad, and bless my soul,
There’s Mr. Rat and Mr. Mole–
Oh, books, what books they used to know,
Those children living long ago!
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books,
Ignoring all the dirty looks,
The screams and yells, the bites and kicks,
And children hitting you with sticks–
Fear not, because we promise you
That, in about a week or two
Of having nothing else to do,
They’ll now begin to feel the need
Of having something to read.
And once they start–oh boy, oh boy!
You watch the slowly growing joy
That fills their hearts. They’ll grow so keen
They’ll wonder what they’d ever seen
In that ridiculous machine,
That nauseating, foul, unclean,
Repulsive television screen!
And later, each and every kid
Will love you more for what you did.
from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl
for further information, see Amusing Ourselves to Death
by Neil Postman
Jon, that brings back memories. I used to read that book over and over as a child…I love Roald Dahl’s poetry.
is this kinda like “back masking” in the late 70’s and early 80’s.. and rock bands make you become a devil worshiper.
Wow, you go from “increases sexual activity” to “becoming a devil worshiper”?
I had sex at age 16… and lived in a super conservative home that wouldn’t let me watch TV… Oh, wait.. maybe Sarah Palins daughter watches to much TV also…
I don’t know if you realize this, but there are exceptions to every rule.
Stella,
FYI.
If you must confess when you had sex for the first time then do so, I feel it only right to inform you that this site gets hundreds of thousands of hits, sometimes on a daily basis.
Some confessions are best left to our diaries, no?
Carry on.
I don’t watch shows with sexual content. Its a rule of mine. I hated the Titanic movie with Kate and Leo because of the profanity and the sex and nudity.
I agree with Carla and Bethany.
Posted by: LizFromNebraska at November 3, 2008 8:02 PM
Titanic stunk for more reasons than just the sex scene. Really, did the producers honestly think that a high society woman from the the early 1900’s would associate with DiCaprio’s character. And a dirty old woman on the exploration ship telling all these men the raunchy details of her life – yeah right!
Lol Titanic didn’t stink. It sunk, but didn’t stink lol. And since when were movies supposed to be believable?!!
well they are not but at least the Hollywood of old sometimes TRIED.
Best Titanic movie: A Night To Remember. I think it’s black and white but very very good.
P.S. Bobby- Don’t let Beas get confused and think Family Guy is just another cartoon. I’ve come home sometimes and my brothers and Gabriella are laying on the floor together watching it. Grrrr…
Oh man, Elizabeth, my friend’s four-year old daughter catches Family Guy with her parents sometimes. She doesn’t really get most of it but she has lately started doing that Peter Griffin “AHHHHHH……AHHHHHHHH…..AHHHHHHHHHH” thing whenever she hurts herself or bumps into something. Like she’ll fall to the ground and clutch her shin and do a dead-on Peter Griffin impersonation. It is so horribly funny.
Personally, if it comes down to Family Guy, Simpsons, or South Park, I choose Simpsons every time. But I won’t kick Family Guy off the Tivo either.
@Alexandra: Have you ever seen the the episode of “Inside the Actor’s Studio with James Lipton” where he interviews the Simpsons’ cast? it’s soooooo surreal…
The title of this post has an error.
The verb is either begat (with no “s”) in the singular, as in “Fred begat BamBam,” or it is begets (with an “e” instead of an “a”) in the plural or abstract, as in “caution begets safety.”
Begats isn’t a word.
….In addition, they don’t show the consequences of having multiple sexual partners such as sexually transmitted diseases or the emotional emptiness that comes from just being used. Young people are taken in by the glamor and are not shown the real consequences of sexual activity outside of a committed relationship — marriage
Posted by: Eileen #2 at November 3, 2008 8:19 PM
Why is it right wingnutters feel justified or proud in posting and speaking from a position of ignorance? SATC certainly does deal with all these issues and sometimes in ways that would actually support your values.
Miranda does have to deal with an STD (chlamydia.) Charlotte learns that her superficial vision of Mr. Right is NOTHING like the real Mr. Right. Samantha can be seen as a realistic example of sex for sex sake – in the end, she won’t/can’t maintain a relationship with a guy most teens would “die” for. And writer Carrie is constantly posing the foundational questions about relationships. THe movie actaully shows that focusing on the fashion (big wedding) can destroy a relationship (no marriage).
There are also shows that deal with virginity and the reality of having children, and the stigma still attached to single women over 30 etc.
In the 25 mintues of the shows format, it certainly is a stylized snapshot – just as any 1/2 hour TV show is.
SATC is a great springboard for discussions of sex, sexuality and women’s opportunties and roles. It would be a wise parent that sits with their teen – girls especially – and watches and talks AND LISTENS to their teen’s views on this show.
It is a wise parent that turns off the tv and actually has a face to face conversation(that includes talking and listening) with her teenage daughter.
I don’t need a trashy show on tv to do that.
You know, would anyone argue that handing out porn to kids would maybe make them more sexually active?
Well duh! Maybe we should just hand out playboys to all the young men, that’ll make em virtuous and upright, responsible men and excellent fathers.
This is the same, it’s just of a lesser degree. Filth is filth and this stuff is exactly what is wrong in this world. Society embraces filth, with wide open arms!
That all of you defend it so much is just disturbing. You act ddicted to it, and so you throw out the “It’s not bad, blah blah blah. DEFEND the TV at all COSTS! battle cry!
Maybe some of you don’t have families, then fine, fill your head up with a bunch of immoral stuff. That is what it is:divorce, sex, affairs, abortions and all that junk is what? Everything has some redeeming quality, but that doesn’t mean it’s a good thing to watch, regardless, and I don’t see how anyone can condone this for kids.
It wouldn’t be fun to stop watching garbage, and read a good book (ie not trashy or filthy) or take up a hobby like knitting or baking, or golf. No, let us instead lower our moral standards and soak up the disgusting drivel from Hollywood, who by the way live such happy lives- so, they are just the greatest model to follow eh? This show is about their lives, and it is reality there, read the cover of any magazine (also mostly filthy) at the register at the store, it’s all there. That is how they live, and they want US to join them. OH Boy! Where do I sign up to get rid of my faithful husband, and excellent father?
Try it for one month, try not watching ANY TV, Movies or ANYTHING for one month, and I guarantee you’ll agree with me. It’s an addiction, but once you get off it, you do other stuff which is much more fulfilling, and then you wonder why you ever wasted your life watching the idiot box.
“It wouldn’t be fun to stop watching garbage, and read a good book (ie not trashy or filthy) or take up a hobby like knitting or baking, or golf.”
knitting or baking? I’m speechless.
Anonymous comments are deleted.
Hal,
ANY hobby is better than tv. Pick one and tell me what it would be. Oh, wait. You are speechless. My bad. :)
Anonymous 11:09 said, “yah – it’s all TV’s fault… the consequence of NOT BEING EDUCATED or NOT HAVING ACCESS to education is the cause of STDs”
I would agree that the t.v. can’t educate. Read Neil Postman’s book (1985) Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business.
But education must be genuine education, not perversion. Anything that recommends condoms is a perversion.
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. Deut. 6:4-9
Hal,
Knitting and baking are not obsolete, although since the latter can be very fattening, I try to avoid it.
But without TV how could I watch Olbermann and Maddow? And Jon Stewart, and Colbert? And Bill Maher.
It is a wise parent that turns off the tv and actually has a face to face conversation(that includes talking and listening) with her teenage daughter.
I don’t need a trashy show on tv to do that.
Posted by: Carla at November 4, 2008 10:25 AM
I betcha Palin said something similar. I suggest you start stockpiling those diapers for when the 17 y o gives you the news.
I read in the New York Times on Sunday that liberals don’t freak out if their teenagers are having sex, but having a baby is out of the question. Conservative freak out about teenagers having sex, but are okay with them having a baby.
I stand against that Phlyo in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Hal said that he “read in the New York Times on Sunday that liberals don’t freak out if their teenagers are having sex, but having a baby is out of the question. Conservative freak out about teenagers having sex, but are okay with them having a baby.”
Premarital sex is sinful, but murder is not a remedy for fornication. I’ve been in at least two churches where a young woman was under discipline for having fornicated. She was simultaneously encouraged and supported in her pregnancy (which was the reason she was found out, though some had suspicions which in at least one case were presented to her as warnings). The man in both cases was not a Christian and not a member of a church. I’m happy to say that one of the two women is now happily married, and the oldest of her children is the one conceived by the man not her husband. The other woman is a single mother but still remains a faithful member of her church.
Hey Carla:
ROFL
Happy for you, Phylo.
Allena has a good point. The excuses, “Well, there’s a little bad in there, but overall it’s good/entertaining/harmless” are bogus. The inner city teens I worked with would argue this whenever we discussed TV shows or rap lyrics. One of our responses would be to use this analogy.
Do you like brownies? Brownies taste good and are fine in moderation. However, would you eat a brownie from a pan that had a little dog poop in the opposite corner? After all, it’s only a little bad. Now of course you wouldn’t eat the brownie. It would be revolting. Then why is it okay to watch TV shows with “only a little crap” in them? Or listen to music that’s misogynistic (I remember debating a couple of my Catholic friends in college over listening to Blink 182)?
The fact is, bad TV is as addictive as pornography. Law & Order spins to Law & Order SVU, depicting more and more perversions. CSI leads to CSI Miami, an excuse to show skimpy bikinis in the break between every shot. Channels compete to see who can reach rock-bottom first (has anyone ever seen an episode of “Cheaters”?). Will someone watching the spin-offs turn into a murdering pervert who ogles women at beaches? Of course not. But these shows do lead to a continuing decline of civility and decency. There is a direct lineage from The Simpsons to South Park, and I say this as someone who used to watch 3 episodes of the Simpsons each day.
My wife and I debate whether we should have a TV at all. Currently, we have a nice bundled package promo. However, when the promo expires, we will do some heavy thinking about its place in our home. Now, the only shows that we see regularly are Sesame Street/PBS Kids-type during the day or an occasional football game while folding laundry when the kids are in bed. Once a month or so, my wife and I see an episode of Monk. Even limiting ourselves to that, it is a wary balance. I know TV sucks me in, and I have wasted so much time because of it. TV has a dangerous hold on society, and we should all try to limit our exposure to it.
knitting or baking? I’m speechless.
What in the world is so shocking and terrible about that?
not terrible Bethany. It just surprised me. Shocked, perhaps. wasn’t expecting to hear kitting and baking as an alternative to TV. I started writing something smarmy, but deleted it and ended up with nothing to say at all. Speechless. But I mean no disrespect.
Maybe those are just things she happens to like to do.
I personally LOVE baking. Knitting, not so much (it’s hard work)…sewing is much more fun, in my opinion. I just don’t see why it would be such a shock to hear those types of hobbies in place of sitting and doing nothing?
hal,
I don’t want to get smarmy over this either.
I think Bethany’s right, it was a female’s perspective after all.
I’d suggest golf, jogging, video games or coaching a sports team instead of TV for the guys.
I take it your wife doesn’t bake or knit. Would she be shocked at the suggestion as well?
Yay!!!
The election is OVER!!!
Hallelujah!!!
I love to bake, but have never knitted.
I will admit that I love TV. I bake and I watch TV lol..so that whole baking or knitting thing wouldn’t really supplement TV for me. I don’t watch much of it though, really. I have far too much microbiology reading. I don’t know..I think maybe the “white noise” of it helps me feel calm maybe. That could be it.
Wonder how much $$$ was spent on this study? I agree, Bethany. Common sense.
Posted by: Carla at November 3, 2008 7:25 PM
These studies are welfare for the educated.
Now matter how obvious the conclusion, they still collect a paycheck.
My brother doesn’t get Cable and sometimes its good (cause Cable costs SOOO MUCH!) but sometimes its not good cause he misses out on Husker Football games and has to either listen to it on the radio or watch it at my parents’ house, if its not on ABC.
They get videos from the library and my two nieces like to do art projects (20 month old Kolbe isn’t into art yet). They watch very little television (PBS kids is one of the few things they do watch) and are always happy when I come over cause they get to watch a movie if I babysit (usually a Disney movie or something that’s good clean family fun). Last night I was there for dinner and then the girls and I watched part of “Therese: Ordinary Girl. Extraordinary Soul”.
Back in the ’80s there were few shows like 90210. If there were, they were on HBO or Cinemax or Showtime and not our regular channels. Now we have junk like Private Practice, Desperate Housewives, and Grey’s Anatomy.
Doug, do you bake your porkloins? :-)
Bethany, to my shame I’ve never made a porkloin myself, though I’ve eaten some really good ones.
(Okay, Jess, avert your eyes….)
I’d do it really simply, as with many fairly large cuts of meat. Just take some olive oil, add spices you like, a little salt & pepper, rub it all into the meat all over.
I guess baking and roasting are the same thing, here, eh, B?
Roast it for around 10 minutes pretty hot, like 450 degrees Fahrenheit, then turn down to 250 and go until the internal temperature is where you want it. Don’t want to dry out poor mister piggie with too much heat after we get that nice color and “seared” exterior a little bit from the initial high heat.
Oink.
Okay, now you’ve gone and made me hungry.
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And if we’re talking about ‘Sex and the City’ and YUM:
