Lauren, a 17-year-old girl, has been watching a lot of R-rated movies lately. Most of them have a lot of sexual content from kissing to simulated sex. Many of these movies show women as an object valued only for her physical appearance. Most of the men in these movies are given status depending on how many women they can get to sleep with them. This exposure has influenced Lauren to ______.

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Exposure to media that consistently portrays certain stereotypes can lead individuals, especially impressionable ones like teenagers, to accept these stereotypes as normal or accurate representations of reality.

Lauren, a 17-Year-Old Girl, Has Been Watching a Lot of R-Rated