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Teens Want To See Less Sex, More Friendship In Movies & TV Shows, UCLA Study Finds
Teens prefer seeing storylines about friendship and platonic relationships and less focus on sex in movies and TV shows, UCLA study finds.
“Our findings really seemed to solidify a trend we found emerging in our data last year: that young people are tired of seeing the same dated and unrelatable romantic tropes on screen,” said Alisha J. Hines, director of research at the center. “Having been exposed to huge stressors during formative years like COVID-19 and 24-hour news cycles detailing incidents of mass shootings, divisive politics and war, young people are overwhelmingly experiencing crisis fatigue,” said Yalda T. Uhls, founder and executive director of the center, co-author of the study and adjunct professor in UCLA’s psychology department. It makes sense that we see many of them looking to the media for fantasy and stories with messages of hope to get relief from the many challenges that come with the reality of being a young person today.”
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