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This TV sex debate just seems to have no end

Article from: Naperville Sun, The (IL) Article date: August 28, 2008

You may know this already, since you probably live in Naperville, but parenting counts.

This week, the Parents Television Council released a study, condemning the free acts of sex on prime-time TV, which includes "bizarre" and "outre" behavior or acts of sex that seem to undermine marriage.

As the study points out, visual references to practices such as voyeurism and sadomasochistic sex outnumbered married-sex references by 3 to 1. That's fantastic odds if you're in Vegas. But most of us are in our homes, looking for some escapism that closely ...

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