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The CW Television Network executives, together with the producers of the teen-targeted drama series
Gossip Girl, are planning to feature major characters in a
three-way sexual encounter on the upcoming November 9th broadcast.
 Gossip Girl is one of the
most-watched broadcast television programs for teenaged girls, and the CW Network has used disgusting marketing ploys to encourage them to do so.
A story line such as this one in a program that expressly targets impressionable teenagers is reckless and irresponsible. As a partner in the Parents Television Council’s mission to protect children and families from graphic material such as this,
your help is urgently needed.
The PTC is calling on all CW affiliates to preempt the November 9 episode.
We need your voice, together with others in your community,
to speak out against material like this from airing over the publicly owned airwaves.
Countless medical and scientific research studies have demonstrated that exposure to explicit entertainment is linked to earlier sexual activity and even teen pregnancy.
Please don’t sit quietly and allow your local CW affiliate to establish this behavior as the acceptable new standard for primetime broadcast television.
Gossip Girl routinely depicts teenage characters engaging in promiscuous and consequence-free sexual behavior, and that's bad enough. But now they are trying to establish a precedent and expectation that teenagers should engage in
behavior heretofore associated primarily with the adult film industry.
Behavior that not only increases health risks, but which is emotionally and psychologically damaging to participants, as well.
Television is profoundly influential in the lives of children.
When television portrays attractive young characters engaging in this kind of reckless behavior, it sends a powerful message to even younger viewers that they too should engage in that behavior, and in fact, there might be something wrong with them if they don't.
Please take action now!
Please don’t allow public silence to be interpreted by Hollywood and the television sponsors that this type of graphic material is acceptable for primetime broadcast TV.
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Click here
to watch the CW Network’s own on-air promotion of this episode.
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