Here is another serious consequence of television viewing by children. The ugly skeletons hidden in the closet of the adult world​—adultery, divorce, homosexuality, incest, corruption, brutality, violence, and so forth—​are fully exposed to children through television. The result? The disappearance of childhood innocence.

“You push down violence and up pops exploitative sex,” says a media analyst. Even a member of a network’s censor board admits: “With the mix of programming today, sexuality has taken the place of violence.”