Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rtech.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!decwrl!decvax!tektronix!hplabs!amdahl!rtech!jeff From: jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman) Newsgroups: net.women,net.singles,net.kids Subject: Re: Information on contraceptives Message-ID: <594@rtech.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 02:12:58 EDT Article-I.D.: rtech.594 Posted: Mon Aug 12 02:12:58 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 01:55:57 EDT References: <653@ttidcc.UUCP> Organization: Relational Technology, Alameda CA Lines: 25 Xref: linus net.women:6508 net.singles:7741 net.kids:1574 > > Howard Rosenberg Article from LA Times, Aug. 7, 1985 > > "CONTRACEPTIVE ISSUE: NETWORKS ON THE SPOT" > ... > "In an average year, viewers are exposed to more than 9,000 scenes of > suggested sexual intercourse, sexual comment or innuendo, accoring to a > 1982 book, _The Early Window: Effects of Television of Children and Youth_. > > ". . .yet it's 'controversial' to run a public-service spot that promotes > information and mentions contraception. > > Adrienne Regard It's only controversial because it's honest. If the ads treated contraception as an abstract issue instead of a real issue that involves real people, the networks wouldn't get so upset. This reminds me of a recent TV commercial for tampons that actually uses the word "period"; how long will it be before people start complaining about this one? -- Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.) aka Swazoo Koolak {amdahl, sun}!rtech!jeff {ucbvax, decvax}!mtxinu!rtech!jeff