Movie and TV shows watched by quite a number of people are changing the way people think about relationships and romance. Exposure to romantic novels and movies has made people have a greater tendency to believe that love can overcome any challenge or obstacle been faced. Also, exposure to romance movies cause people to believe in the concept of love at first sight, and that true love is nearly almost perfect without any constraint.
Thus, research has shown that behaviors exhibited in such mass media genres usually influences and has an impact on people’s views and opinions about relationships and romance. The influence of movies, novels and TV shows is instilling a confused sense of a perfect relationship within the society, and providing unrealistic expectations about relationships.
Although, adults should be able to tell the differences between over-emphasized love and healthy realistic love, but in the real sense, people’s lives, whether young or old, are a replica of what is actually portrayed on-screen.
The scenario which the fairy-tales and illusions that movies depicts, ends immediately one decides to enter into a relationship. As people are perplexed and mystified by the media’s view of love, romance and sex. It is becoming a norm for relationships and marriages to be based on a strong desire for happiness and personal fulfillment, and when these feelings fade or vanishes, people think the love they once felt is gone and forces them to move from one lover or spouse to the next.
Just as pornography in a way sets up unrealistic expectations for sex and other related activities, even so media whimsical stories of love and romance spur people to expect an unlikely mode of relationship. The media sells the most exciting part of love as the one filled with a lot of fun and entertainment, through movies and novels, but there is more to the concept of true love than just fun and entertainment but also the place of purpose and fulfillment.
Also, media has been used to promote sex in a rather negative way. Products are being sold, businesses have been on the rise as a result of the sale of tickets that gets our attention. All these continuous exposure, can lead one to develop absurd expectations for sexuality. So, many are of the view that sex should never be uncomfortable, and the people engaged in it would receive maximum satisfaction with just little effort.