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TV series are a common means of entertainment in popular culture. Different TV series depict images of love in the form of heterosexuality. TV shows are constantly displaying images of socially accepted heterosexual relationships and lifestyles. TV series with couples that are predominantly heterosexual may promote heterosexuality to its viewers causing them to learn to be straight or learn to be gay.
Most TV shows have couples that are straight but not some series are experimenting with homosexual couples. This is changing the way people are looking at what love really is. Because many TV shows only have straight couples in the shows many link love to heterosexual relationships. Images of love are also challenged in the media through TV series because TV series will actually show heterosexual people in sexual, intimate acts but they are less likely to show a homosexual couple in a sexual, intimate act. This is confirming that heterosexual love is “natural”. TV viewers will be conditioned to have these beliefs if they are constantly observing these images of love. The media believes that sex “sells” so TV producers are going to use sexual relationships that the majority of the population agrees with. The question is, is the media trying to sway people to believe certain things about sexuality?
Human sexuality is a socially constructed experience in which TV is a part of. Sexual relationships are not private; society influences relationships. Society uses the media to say how certain biological sexes should act and this is called gender. Societal norms put certain expectations on each gender. Some of these expectations are for ones sexuality. They may say who is supposed to be attracted to and how they are supposed to express...

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...e Role-Learning theory suggests that the images in the media encourage role modeling. This means that the media creates popular culture. While the theories are different they both suggest that the media plays a part in how people think about gender and sexuality. They show that sexuality is not longer something individual or personal but rather something that society is as a whole is in control of.
Sexuality is something that TV shows have the ability to shape. They have control over what viewers see and whether they see homosexuality in a negative context or not. As society is moving forward homosexuality is becoming more positively viewed in the media but it is still not being shown as much as heterosexual relationships. People will always be hearing and seeing different opinions but there is still hope for more understanding and accepting generations to come.

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