Do the media aid in telling teens sex is OK?

You can hardly watch a show on TV –and it can be network not cable— where someone is hopping into bed with someone else, usually not their husband or wife. Sex is used to sell just about everything from cruises, vacation packages, burgers, gun, even eye glasses. Sex is pumped up as the main thing to strive for second only to breathing. All the award shows have acts where some slinky songstress minimally dressed strutting across the stage. The media makes it seem that if you are not boinking and doing it often you are some loser no one can pay to touch. That somehow you have more worth as a human if you are sexy and the measure of that is to be desirable enough to have sex with.

With all those messages isn’t kind of tongue in cheek to tell kids they are too young to be out boinking like bunnies? Where are they really getting the full risk, benefit, and responsibility of sex when it is made to seem like the ultimate rollercoaster ride you just can’t say no to?