
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, March 10, 1992                   TAG: 9203100402
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-7   EDITION: METRO 
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MEDIA INFLUENCE

EVERYTHING we watch on television or the big screen has some kind of sex in it. The public should protest!

I also suggest getting more movie stars and celebrities to speak out against teens having sex. They need to make movies and shows about preventing teen-age pregnancy.

Somehow we need for teens to stop and think of the future before they have sex. They should imagine themselves with a child when they are only 16 or 17, think how hard it would be for them to make it through life and how other people will look at them.

Distributing condoms is not a good idea. In a way, it promotes sex.

DENISE MARMADUKE LORD BOTETOURT HIGH SCHOOL DALEVILLE

by CNB