Three-quarters of Americans think the entertainment industry needs to reduce the amount of sex, violence and profanity in movies, television and music, according to a recent Gallup Poll.
Most Americans said they are offended by the sex, violence and profanity in entertainment, and 75 percent said the industry should make a serious effort to reduce offensive images.
More than 60 percent said they are offended by the violence in entertainment, 58 percent by the profanity, 58 percent by sexual content and 52 percent by homosexuality.
The numbers are lower than a similar Gallup survey of almost 10 years ago. In 1995, 83 percent of Americans said the entertainment industry needed to correct the offensiveness of TV, music and movies. According to Gallup researchers, the difference in a decade is due to increasingly tolerant views among younger Americans.
The poll was based on random telephone interviews with a nationwide sample of 1,008 adults. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
(RNS)
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