If you haven't seen famous MTV british episodes 'Skins' then you've missed out on a good teen drama and well some of almost child pornography. Even though I personally have nothing against this TV show and find it just an attempt to represent life of some troubled teen, critics and parents created a mass protest against this show. They claim that this 'Skins' go 'just too far' in showing their life and believe that sexual scenes can be considered child pornography, as all the characters on the show are approximately of age 15.
One thing that 'Skins' cannot be blamed for it stereotyping, even thought they did show teens who use drugs and have sex they try to represent much more about them than that and try to look at the reasons of such behaviour, instead of applying clichees on them.
The article by Kate Rogers published in Fox Business in January 2011, suggests that TV episodes 'Skins' are clamed to cross the line in their attempt to be popular and sold. This is what article suggests:
"Matt Britton, CEO and founder of Mr. Youth, a marketing agency, said while MTV has always aimed for controversy with its programming, this latest attempt at going for shock value may be alienating its advertising base. But he said that is a decision to be made regarding what's best for business, and not based on a moral issue, as ultimately it comes down to parents, not advertisers, to police what content teens are exposed to."
Well, even though adults believe in high controversy of the 'Skins' I can't stop myself from thinking how naive they might possibly be. How could they claim about 'child pornography' in one particular TV show when all tv shows are about sex, or have sexual jokes. When kissing in movies is not enough anymore as it used to be in golden times of Hollywood. When internet is completely filled with porn for any possible taste. What they are succeeded in, is definitely in sounding ridiculous. Instead of caring about stereotypes they apply themselves and looking in the problem of an issue deeper, they would rather keep blindly putting blames on someone. After all, Tv shows like 'Skins' is purely result of adults prejudicial beliefs ans stereotypes of young people.
Read the article by Kate Rogers: http://smallbusiness.foxbusiness.com/marketing-sales/2011/01/25/teen-mom-skins-market-teens/#ixzz1LqQVsojV
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