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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Aug 17.
Published in final edited form as: Mass Commun Soc. 2017 Apr 18;20(5):686–709. doi: 10.1080/15205436.2017.1298807

Table 2.

Scenes with sexual and romantic behaviors based on whether the scene is relational and/or recreational in theme and whether the scene indicates sex and/or love

In scenes with which theme?
In scenes with which indication?
Total Scenes Approx Min/Hr
Behavior Relational Recreational Both Neither Sex Love Both Neither
Dating/courting behavior 28 22 2 1 12 23 18 0 53 1.23
Light kissing 102 27 4 11 38 45 61 0 144 3.35
Physical flirting 31 44 5 11 46 3 42 0 91 2.12
Passionate kissing 32 30 6 1 37 1 31 0 69 1.61
Intimate touching 9 20 4 7 26 0 14 0 40 0.93
Masturbation 0 4 0 0 4 0 0 0 4 0.09
Intercourse implied 14 15 2 3 24 0 10 0 34 0.79
Intercourse depicted 5 11 0 6 19 0 3 0 22 0.51
No sexual behaviors 266 108 16 1897 202 197 85 1803 2287 53.23
Total scenes 421 199 25 1933 325 260 190 1803 2578 60.00

Note. Scenes with at least some type of sexual and/or romantic behavior (= 291 scenes) might have one or more type of behavior; categories beyond “no sexual behaviors” are not mutually exclusive.