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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 4.

Scenes with sexual health, risk, and responsibility content 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
Health/risk/responsibility Relational Recreational Both Neither Sex Love Both Neither
Yes to abstinence 4 0 0 4 5 0 3 0 8 0.19
No to abstinence 2 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 3 0.07
Yes to social expectations 2 2 0 9 8 1 4 0 13 0.30
No to social expectations 12 8 2 12 13 5 16 0 34 0.79
Yes to contraceptives 3 4 0 3 9 0 1 0 10 0.23
No to contraceptives 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 2 0.05
Emotional harm 29 32 12 7 26 6 48 0 80 1.86
HIV/AIDS or STIs 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.02
Unwanted pregnancy 8 8 0 13 23 0 6 0 29 0.67
Yes to abortion 1 0 0 2 3 0 0 0 3 0.07
No to abortion 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0.02
Planned pregnancy 50 2 0 0 34 1 17 0 52 1.21
No risk/responsibility 327 148 13 1907 232 248 112 1803 2395 55.74
Total scenes 421 199 25 1933 325 260 190 1803 2578 60.00

Note. Scenes with at least some mention of health/risk/responsibility (= 183 scenes) might have one or more types of health mention; categories beyond “no risk” are not mutually exclusive.