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Relationship Status Character involved has an established sexual/romantic relationship Character involved has no established sexual/romantic relationship Sex and Sexuality: A Content Analysis of Soap Operas Sexual Talks Sexual Behaviours Frequency Percent Frequency Percent 93 27.8 103 27.5 172 51.3 168 44.9 Characters involved just met or on first date 14 4.2 50 13.4 Characters involved are married to each other 31 9.3 18 4.8 Character involved is having an extra-marital affair 23 6.9 9 2.4 Unknown/Cannot tell 2 .6 26 7.0 Total 335 100.0 374 100.0 Table 6-12 The distribution of characters by relationship status across portrayals of sexual talk and behaviour. The relationship status of characters involved only in sexual behaviours varied considerably from one type of behaviour to another (X 2 =89.145, df=45, p
Sex and Sexuality: A Content Analysis of Soap Operas City and, to a lesser extent, in Hollyoaks and Neighbours skewed the overall percentage (see Appendix: Table 3.15). For instance, six out of ten (60%=204 characters 50 ) and under five out of ten (47%=53 characters) of all codable characters in Hollyoaks in the City and Hollyoaks respectively had no established sexual/romantic relationship, compared to around a quarter (25%) of all codable characters in Coronation Street, EastEnders and Home and Away, and 35% in Emmerdale. Of the seven soap operas Home and Away and Coronation Street were found to have the highest percentage of characters that had an established sexual/romantic relationship (64% and 42% of all codable characters in the two soaps respectively), followed by EastEnders (36%) and Neighbours (28%); while the lowest percentages were found in Hollyoaks (16%), Emmerdale (19%) and Hollyoaks in the City (23%). Further, Emmerdale and Hollyoaks were more likely than the other five soap operas to portray characters that either just met or were on a first date, with just over three in ten (31%) of Emmerdale‘s characters and two in ten (21%) of Hollyoaks‘ belonging to this category, compared to just 7% of Neighbours‘ and EastEnders‘. The comparison findings also indicated that only EastEnders and Hollyoaks in the City had a substantial percentage of characters that were identified as ‗married‘ (around 16% in the former, and 10% in the latter), while the rest had very modest percentages. Additionally, characters having extra-marital affairs were found only in the three most popular British soap operas, as well as Hollyoaks: those characters accounted for over two out of ten (23%) of all codable characters in Coronation Street, 16% in EastEnders, 8% in Emmerdale and 6% in Hollyoaks. 6.3.5 Characters under Influence of Alcohol and Drugs In this study characters were also assessed for whether or not they were under the influence of alcohol or drugs as they appeared across all sexual portrayals. Here the mere presence of either alcohol or drugs did not necessarily mean characters 50 The total number of characters that had no established sexual/romantic relationship across all seven soap was 340. 245
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Sex and Sexuality: A Content Analys
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Abstract Over the last decade soap
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Introduction Sex and Sexuality: A C
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BOX (4-1) Sex and Sexuality: A Cont
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4.3 Summary and Discussion Sex and
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1 Chapter Four: Tables Soap Operas
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