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Originally Posted by Evaline
Sex has been around longer than the media has. So, automatically, that means the media does in fact make it look like a taboo, since it was "normal" before. TV shows, movies, and books 80% of the time show the "horrifying" side of sex - unwanted pregnancy, STDs, etc. - to make the plot more interesting. It's rare to come across anything that has a sex scene in it where nothing bad happens.
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Actually I think you'll find that unless you count things such as the Church and the Bible being the media, that's what initially made it look bad. Sex = dirty was taken as normal long before books as a standard publication and TV, papers etc.