Chapter 4 Sexual Content in Soap Operas - Leicester Research ...

Sex and Sexuality: A Content Analysis of Soap Operas
List of Figures
Figure 4-1 Percentages of scenes with sexual content found in each of the seven soap operas. ______ 131
Figure 4-2 The overall frequencies of all sexual types found across the entire sample. _____________ 138
Figure 4-3 Levels of explicitness across all sexual portrayals. _________________________________ 152
Figure 4-4 Levels of explicitness in scenes featuring Sexual Behaviours only. _____________________ 153
Figure 4-5 Frequencies of scenes with sexual explicitness (only sexual behaviours) for each of the seven
soap operas. ________________________________________________________________________ 154
Figure 4-6 Levels of explicitness in scenes featuring Sexual Talk only. ___________________________ 155
Figure 4-7 Degrees of focus across all sexual portrayals. _____________________________________ 157
Figure 4-8 Frequencies of degree of focus found across both sexual behaviours and sexual talk. _____ 157
Figure 7-1Soap operas’ share of scenes depicting R & R topics. ________________________________ 265
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