1. Sex and
Violence
Alexander Tranchemontagne
CMS 200
Maureen Ebben

2. Sex & Violence
 The purpose of this survey is to try and
understand why violence is less censored in
the media when compared to sexual acts.
 I want to understand if sexual acts bother
people more than violent acts, hence the
censorship.
 I’d also like to learn why sex & violence on TV
bother people.

3. Facts
A recent poll conducted by TIME showed that 53%
of those polled wanted stricter guidelines of what
can be shown.
 Ina study about media affecting kids, 54% of kids
said they have a TV in their room.
 Inthe same study, 66% of children (aged 10-16)
surveyed said that their peers are influenced by
the TV.
 In
another study,77% surveyed that said that too
much premarital sex is on TV.

4. Hypothesis
I feel that the media shows much more
violent acts when compared to sexual
acts.
 I’d
assume watching violent act bothers
people more than sexual acts do.
I think most people in my age group are
okay with the media portraying both acts
meaning we watch shows full of them.

5. Why a survey?
I really wanted to figure out what actually
offended people so I decide a survey or
doing interviews would be the best
choices.
 Doing a survey allowed me to get a lot of
peoples opinions in a short time.
 Getting a pretty good sample wasn’t that
difficult either.

6. Survey
 Question 1: What is your gender?
 -male – female
 Question 2: What age group do you fall under?
 -12 to 20 -21 to 35 -35 to 45 -46+
 Question 3: Seeing which action on TV is more offensive?
 -sex -violence
 Question 4: Which action do you see more of on TV?
 -sex -violence

7. Survey
 Question 5: Which action do you think is okay to
show on TV?
 -sex –violence –neither - both
 Question 6: Describing your reasoning of why you
think sex or violence is worse to show on TV
compared to the other subject.
 -Write in an answer.
 Question 7: Give a reason of your own as to why
you think violence is less censored on TV.
 -Write in an answer.

8. Age & Gender
Gender
12-20:25
21-35:8
Men
Women 35-45:12
46+:5
Age
12 to 20
21 to 35
Men:29
Women:21 35 to 45
46+

9. Which bothers you more?
Sex
Violence
-This proves my hypothesis wrong
Sex:39 Violence:11

10. Which do you see more?
Sex
Violence
-Matches some of my hypothesis
-Younger people saw more violence,
Sex:22 Violence:28 this may have to do with what they watch.

11. Which is okay to show?
Sex
Violence
Both
Neither
Sex:6 -A lot of younger people answered “both”
Neither:10
Violence:9 -All people aged 46+ answered “neither”
Both: 25

12. Which is worse?
 Neither is that bad to show on TV, media
doesn't’t affect minds.
 Sexual scenes are really uncomfortable to
watch.
 Violence rarely has any positives.
 Both are equally bad and should mostly stay off
airwaves.
 It depends on how the act is being portrayed.

13. Why is violence less censored?
 The media has de-sensitized us from it.
 Tomake war look great and trick people into
enlisting.
 Is it? / It isn’t.
 Because it’s less imitable.
 It’s really not that bad to show on air.

14. What I’d do differently
I would of asked more people, and I’d
get a more even sample of ages.
 It’dwould been interesting to ask what
kind of TV people see that has sex and
violence.
I should of ask a question that pertained
to children’s television.

15. Conclusion
 Nearlyeveryone I surveyed between 12 & 20
are okay with media portraying violence and
sex.
 Violence is more prominently portrayed.
 Sexualscenes make people feel more
uncomfortable when compared to violent
scenes.
 It
seems the inclusions of these themes in the
media may be a generational gap.

16. References
 http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/facts/medi
afacts.asp