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Originally Posted by VydorScope
The gist of this thread as been that print/tv does not influence people. The advertising industry is proof that they do influence people. [...]
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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
No, that's not been the gist of the thread. The gist of it is that if your going to claim that certain things have certain effects, there needs to be evidence for that claim. There's plenty of evidence for the effect advertising has, but that doesn't mean that other effects must be real.
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And, perhaps more importantly, what influences?
Erotica and horror, by the very way they are presented, are often more in nature of cartoons - to a large extent they are very obviously not real, and the behaviour often shown as specifically anomalous. What message may be taken from such media is not necessarily obvious. It may be that worse messages come from more general media, where the "right" way to act and present yourself is shown (often) without deliberate forethought; it's just "the way it is". Such influences are often subliminal and may be quite effective.