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From: jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman)
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Subject: Re: Information on contraceptives
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Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 02:12:58 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 12 02:12:58 1985
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> 
> 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

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