Sex Violence and Videotape
Sex, Violence and Videotape This essay appeared in the May, ’94 issue of the Wall Street Journal. ... Kristol uses a motivational argument to support his claim that sex and violence on videotapes are teaching the children and teens to act in the same way as they are seeing on television and in movies. ... Kristol supports his claim, that sex and violence on videotapes and television have lead and continue to lead the crime rates to rise, by using many statistics. ... Kristol goes on to explain that with the rise in violence of teenagers, it is also reasonable to think that the rise in sexual promiscuity is also learned on television and movies. ... I agree that something should be done to prevent underage kids from seeing all of the violence and sexual activity that is shown on television and in movies. ... Kristol states “… churches have discovered that sex is good and repression is bad, schools hand out condoms and tell the students they ought to limit their activity to ‘responsible sex’, and the culture is busy making as much money as possible out of as much sex as possible.