Is sex too prevalent in the media?

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Do you think plumbing has anything to do with how people view this "problem?"

Yup! I think that when sex is compartmentalized, with an emphasis exclusively on the physical part of sex, something very important is lost. It becomes depersonalized, with interchangable organ systems.

Beautiful love stories, IMO, can be far more sensual, and sexy, than some bimbette gyrating on a stage!

I have nothing against compartmentalized sex.........in its place.

Most people in the world still share their beds with their children and do not have sex with their children in the bed.

Even if the papers didn't say anything about not having sex with the children present, the diminished sex drive and increased harmony are the exact opposite of someone who was sexually abused.

My purely anecdotal impression from travelling around in Europe is that porn magazines at news stands are especially tasteless in prudish countries like England and Scandinavia.

Also, children that share beds with their parents (even up to 18 years old!) have a tendency to have less of a sexual drive as they get older and are peaceful as a result (sex=violence).

In this first longitudinal study of correlates of infant and
early childhood bedsharing, 154 countercultural and 51
conventional two-parent families were followed from the
third trimester of the mother's first pregnancy in 1975 for
18 years. We found that many families in the sample
intentionally elected to bedshare as part of lifestyle and
value choices favoring free and expressive interpersonal
relationships, open emotional and bodily expression,
pronaturalism, and generally more liberal attitudes towards
sexuality. Many parents believed that these lifestyle and
value choices would have important salutary effects on
their children. With the single exception of significantly
elevated scores in cognitive competence at age 6 years, our
data suggest that bedsharing as a practice had no such
effects.
On the other hand, our data also do not support fears that
bedsharing would lead to psychosexually troubled relationships
later in childhood and adolescence, behavior problems
and difficulties in peer and intimate relationships, or early
childhood sleep problems. If anything, there are mildly
positive associations in early childhood and adolescence
between bedsharing and psychosexual and affect-related
variables, although effect sizes are small. Our lack of
findings of negative outcomes is in accord with previous
cross-sectional research from the cross-cultural literature,
and it fits with our expectations from theory.

If you share your bed with your children you are not alone. Surveys show that 25 to 30 percent of American parents routinely let their children sleep with them, either for part or all of the night. The United States is one of the few countries that has a cultural bias against parents sharing a bed with their children. It was a common tradition in the U.S. until the twentieth century when child-care experts began warning parents that they must teach their children to sleep alone or create psychological scars. It continues to be a common tradition in many other cultures and not just because of limited space. It is common in Japan, for example, where they emphasize the nurturing aspects of family life. Parents don't sleep alone, most people do not like sleeping alone, why would a baby?

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Marriage and Sex

Most parents throughout the world sleep with their infants with no such problems. A Swedish study looked at this issue and found that the parents' marital relations were not harmed by having a child sleep with them and that it did not cause a rise in the divorce rate. If both parents agree on it, sharing sleep usually does not contribute to marital conflict (however, it won't work if you don't want the child there). Many parents report that co-sleeping has lead to more creativity in their sex lives. They point out that there are many other rooms in the house. They may also move a sleeping child to the floor or another room temporarily.