Skip to Content. Join Common Sense Media Plus for timely advice from a community of parents like you. Kids are growing up surrounded by sexual images and messages. They're exposed to sexual imagery in advertisements, on TV, in movies, in books, in video games, and on the Internet. Many of these images are played for shock value, so they often contain graphic or violent sex. Even mild shows use sexual situations for humor, and sexual humor is a mainstay of adolescent entertainment.