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Watching sex on TV : reinterpreting content using a sociological gaze

Public discourse about the television medium characterizes sexual content on network television as "explicit", "indiscriminate," and "lurid," but there is almost no research that examines the character of television portrayals of sexuality, especially portrayals of controversial topics, to gauge whether these assumptions are correct

Thesis, Dissertation, English, 2001
Dissertation Abstracts International
2001