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Media Influences on Puberty

In many ways the media has a very influential effect on teenagers goin through puberty, especially girls who feel self-conscious about there bodies.

Many teenagers going through puberty have worries about some aspects of their bodies. even though they may not have anything wrong with them its is just their way of thinking and has something to do with their brain and the changes occuring in it through puberty. In the media things often are not displayed as they really are. For example different fashion magazines and mens magazines like Ralph, Zoo and the like they are all enhanced to produce the final product you see in the magazine as the reader.

Wheras, on the other hand models for example have to be really skinny and once females going through the changes of puberty see this they think this is a healthy image and that this is what they should look like when it is really not at all healthy.

For teenagers these magazines and media influences that are exposed in their everyday lives are very easy to access in many different ways. For example walking into a newsagence and picking up a mens magazine and reading it, this is the same for tennage girls as well. Teenagers are always being exposed to media influences.

The Negative Affects on Teenagers:
 * The Attraction too inappropriate images.
 * Trying to achieve a unhealthy body image.
 * Loss of Self-Confidence.
 * Evoking unwanted sexual feelings.
 * And other Unhealthy Habits and thoughts.