‘Relationship television’ affects the sexual expectations of emerging adults differently
What young men and women expect from their sexual relationships is influenced in different ways by the television programmes they watch, according to a new study in Communication Monographs . Hilary Gamble and Leslie R. Nelson studied the effect of ‘relationship television’, that is, programmes which feature romantic relationships and themes, on 18–25 year olds. Their starting point was the different messages that television programmes send out – and the concern that ‘emerging men and women’ may have incompatible sexual