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Sex and Sexuality: A Content Analysis of Soap Operas
controversial behaviours featuring group sex or a sex orgy, except for the lone rape
case.
In sum, although just 11% (N=20) of portrayals of sexual behaviours included
three or more characters, of which only a small minority were involved in group-sex
and/or advanced intimate sexual behaviours, the overwhelming majority (88%) of
all scenes portraying sexual behaviours involved only two characters, the majority of
whom engaged in mild sexual behaviours such as passionate kissing, intimate
touching and physical flirting and suggestiveness (see Appendix: Table 3.2)—it is
worth noting that differences in the distribution of scenes across the two types of
portrayals (talk and behaviour) according to the number of characters involved were
found to be statistically significant, with X 2 value of 44.197, df=22, p