Sex News

March, 1982

Dirty MindsWe already know, without the advantages of scientific inquiry, that soap operas are addictive, may result in serious brain damage and can make you late to class. Now sociologists are beginning to probe this cultural experience to find out its effects; they have learned that if you immerse yourself in suds, you don't always come up clean. In our pictorial The Bad and the Beautiful (January 1982), we only touched on reports in the Journal of Communication of the Annenberg School of Comm...