The innumerous realty shows and the sentimental melodramas have been show-cases of nudity with abreast TRP ratings. Three out of four teens say ‘TV shows and movies make it seem normal for teenagers to have sex.’
American TV seems to rally much behind its bigger screen cousin, the Hollywood cinema. The TV shows seem to be excesses of nudity, and audiences seem to swell, could be attributed to more of such shows in the offing. TV has been a drawing room tool which no longer shall be common platform of viewing to all members of a family. While sex education becomes essential to ward off danger, too much of these could also lead to unwanted crisis.
But the trends seem to be getting popular and now the agreements of TV actors are having specific nude clauses which mention to what extent one permit exposing. Is it the bare breast, flash of buttocks or so on.
“The nudity rider spells out exactly what an actor agrees to do in a role: partial nudity, full frontal nudity — even simulated sex,” says a LA attorney to media. The document — usually about one page — can be extremely detailed. It typically includes which body parts can be shown, from which angle and for how long. The nudity clause — once a rarity on TV — is becoming, if not standard, an everyday part of contract negotiations.
A recent survey shows,
• Three out of four teens say ‘TV shows and movies make it seem normal for teenagers to have sex.’
• Young teens (ages 13-15) rank entertainment media as the top source of information about sexuality and sexual health
• Four out of ten teenagers say they have gotten ideas for how to talk to their boyfriends and girlfriends about sexual issues from the entertainment media.
• The American Psychological Association estimates that teens are exposed to 14,000 sexual references & innuendos per year on TV.
• A recent report from the Center for Media & Public Affairs found music videos to contain more sex per minute than any competing media genre.
• A study of 4,294 network television commercials found that nearly one in 4 commercials includes some type of sexual attractiveness as a base for the message.
• Young teens (13-15) indicate that a major source of sex education is from tv.
So any small or excess of nudity on the small screen is not out on a mistake or to exploit any one. But is absolutely as per the agreement of which value is clearly understood by the executor, that such scenes emerge on screen to entertain us. (With inputs from the Internet-AarKay)
