# Sexual content > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Sexual_content > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Sexual_content.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_content > Source revision: 1310107393 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Material depicting sexual behavior In media [discourse](/source/Discourse), **sexual content** is material depicting [sexual behavior](/source/Human_sexual_activity). The sexual behavior involved may be [explicit](/source/Pornography), implicit sexual behavior such as [flirting](/source/Flirting),[1] or include sexual language and [euphemisms](/source/Euphemism).[2] Sexual content is a large factor in most [content rating systems](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_content_ratings_systems), such as those used for [television programs](/source/Television_content_rating_system), [films](/source/Motion_picture_content_rating_system), and [video games](/source/Video_game_content_rating_system). Its increasing availability, especially the Internet, has increased people's exposure to sexual content. Such exposure is not always wanted.[1] Research has suggested that exposure to sexual content affects people's thoughts and behavior, though there is disagreement as to the extent of the effect.[2] Gert Martin Hald, a psychologist at the [University of Copenhagen](/source/University_of_Copenhagen), who authored a study which found that watching "sexually explicit media" only accounted for 0.3 to 4 percent of behavior changes, said, "Our data suggest that other factors such as [personal dispositions](/source/Personality) — specifically sensation-seeking — rather than consumption of sexually explicit material may play a more important role in a range of sexual behaviors of adolescents and young adults."[3] ## See also - [Censorship](/source/Censorship) - [Clop (erotic fan art)](/source/Clop_(erotic_fan_art)) - [History of erotic depictions](/source/History_of_erotic_depictions) - [Erotica](/source/Erotica) - [Not safe for work](/source/Not_safe_for_work) - [Obscenity](/source/Obscenity) - [Parental Advisory](/source/Parental_Advisory) - [Pornography](/source/Pornography) - [Rule 34](/source/Rule_34) ## References Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Files with Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act warnings](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_with_Child_Protection_and_Obscenity_Enforcement_Act_warnings). 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Brown_2002_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Brown_2002_1-1) Brown, Jane D. (February 2002). "Mass Media Influences on Sexuality". *[The Journal of Sex Research](/source/The_Journal_of_Sex_Research)*. **39** (1). Taylor & Francis, Ltd.: 42–45. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1080/00224490209552118](https://doi.org/10.1080%2F00224490209552118). [JSTOR](/source/JSTOR_(identifier)) [3813422](https://www.jstor.org/stable/3813422). [PMID](/source/PMID_(identifier)) [12476255](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12476255). [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [6342646](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:6342646). 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Taylor_2005_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Taylor_2005_2-1) Taylor, Laramie D. (May 2005). "Effects of Visual and Verbal Sexual Television Content and Perceived Realism on Attitudes and Beliefs". *[The Journal of Sex Research](/source/The_Journal_of_Sex_Research)*. **42** (2). Taylor & Francis, Ltd.: 130–137. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1080/00224490509552266](https://doi.org/10.1080%2F00224490509552266). [JSTOR](/source/JSTOR_(identifier)) [3813149](https://www.jstor.org/stable/3813149). [PMID](/source/PMID_(identifier)) [16123843](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16123843). [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [144938495](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:144938495). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Pappas, Stephanie (25 April 2013). ["Teen Sex Study Shows Racy Movies & Online Content Have Little Effect On Adolescent Sexuality"](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/25/teen-sex-study-movies-content-adolescent-sexuality_n_3155762.html). *[LiveScience](/source/LiveScience)*. [The Huffington Post](/source/The_Huffington_Post). Retrieved 28 April 2013. Look up ***[sexplicit](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sexplicit)*** in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. This vocabulary-related article is a stub. 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