In Europe, parents fear that violent media might effect their children, but worry less about sexual media. In America, parents worry that sexual media might ef

In Europe, parents fear that violent media might effect their children, but worry less about sexual media. In America, parents worry that sexual media might effect their children, but worry less about violent media. I'm of the opinion that both are half right and both are half wrong. Both violent and sexual media effect the people who consume it. We are what we eat. There is no kind of media that doesn't effect consumers of that media in some way. Also, it bears mentioning that a lot of pornography is both sexual and violent... (In case it isn't clear, those two trends I list above are gross generalizations. When I was a child in America, my mother would not allow me to play with tin soldiers or GI Joes, nerf guns, or watch cartoons more violent than Arthur. Not a typical American childhood, but nevertheless still an American childhood. Generalizations always have exceptions but I think they can be useful nevertheless.)