Effect of Sex in American Family System - Essay Example

 Today, sex has become an essential component of entertainment and has become omnipresent with the aid of media; over the Internet, mobile phones, television, and magazines. The collective effect of changing attitudes toward sex has been of weakening the family as the building block of the society. American society is becoming increasingly approving of gay rights. Unlike the past, when homosexual tendency was considered as abnormal behavior, homosexuality is being increasingly approved of and is being given similar status to heterosexuality.

A positive effect of these changing attitudes toward sex is that sex education today has become more of a need than a choice. More people can be educated on the risks of unhealthy sexual behaviors. A negative effect, however, is that more educated people advocate in favor of abortion associating it with women’s liberty and freedom, thus increasing the rate of abortions in the country (Aulette, 2010). Overall, circumstances have become conducive for an increase in the premarital sex amongst teens.