Topic > Lebanese Media and Sexuality - 839

Lebanon is the freest and most liberal country in the Arab world, a combination of Western culture and Arab culture gives it a unique cultural spectrum, the country is more tolerant when it comes to relations between men and women and even homosexuality, however the country has not yet understood the idea of ​​sexuality. Preparing children for the transition to adulthood has always been a challenge, parents play a vital role in shaping young people's knowledge about sex and sexuality, public schools in Lebanon provide inadequate information, leaving young people vulnerable to sexually transmitted diseases communicable, unwanted pregnancies and sexual abuse, thus allowing children to learn in their own way and to receive misinformation from the media, the Internet and peers, even as teachers are supposed to remain the trusted sources of sex education knowledge. The Lebanese media uses sexuality as a form of cheap entertainment rather than awareness-raising. Lebanese society is blind when it comes to sexual education before marriage, due to an immature attitude towards sex, sexually transmitted diseases and confusion. The mass media has a huge influence on sexuality and opens windows into sex, there is great concern about sexual content on television, the internet and in the media in general, in the absence of inadequate sex education at school, young people tend to obtain partial information and misinformation about sex on their own. Such sources include Hollywood films, pornography, and even TV shows. The media is the fastest means of disseminating information to the public, as a result films are becoming more and more explicit, children nowadays are exposed to pornography, According to professor of journalism and media criticism Jane Brown, the media is provoking teenagers. ... .. half of the paper …… etc. they are more open to sexuality, couples kiss and hug in public while ignoring everyone around and they are also open about homosexuality. In the absence of adequate sex education in Lebanese schools, the media has played the role of substitute, providing the public with the wrong idea about sex and sexuality and promoting sex as cheap entertainment in television program advertisements, etc. . Works Cited Jane D. Brown, Jeanne R. Steele, Kim Walsh-Childers (2002). Sexual adolescents, sexual media: Investigating media influence on adolescent sexuality. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. P. 2. Brooke Anderson (2013). Shock value, sexism and superficiality: Lebanon's advertising problem. The Daily Star Lebanon. Retrieved from http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2013/Oct-09/234028-shock-value-se xism-and-superficiality-lebanons-advertising-problem.ashx#axzz2mFhoUINx