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The result was delete. ✗plicit 14:07, 6 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Effects of sex in the media (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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Unspeakably vague and haphazard WP:NOTESSAY violation that sounds like it was written decades ago despite being created in 2017 (why is there no information on LGBT people at all? Why is BDSM lumped together with rape and genital mutilation as “violent sexual content”? Why is the best statistic on porn they could find from 2006?). Seemingly just a bad copy of the already very shabby effects of pornography article. Was this created for a college project? Needs WP:TNT via draftification at the absolute minimum. Dronebogus (talk) 11:33, 29 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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• Delete per WP:NOTESSAY, and noting that the original author has made no subsequent contributions elsewhere in Wikipedia ClaudineChionh (talk – contribs) 12:21, 29 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Note: This debate has been added to the WikiProject Pornography list of deletions.CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 16:15, 29 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per nom, after merging anything worthwhile into Effects of pornography (although that's at AfD itself). On the positive side, there are plenty of scholarly sources, even if some are dated. But I was expecting content on sex in films and TV shows, or even something like advertising, to differentiate this from the pornography article. I don't see that, making this a WP:CONTENTFORK. I don't think it's worth keeping a redirect because the search term could also relate to things like Sex in advertising. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 17:45, 29 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  @Sdkb: I see that this article has a lot of material on pornography. I think that pornography and mass media are distinct things. Do you think that if all the pornography stuff was moved, and other cleanup done, it is possible to build an article on Effects of sex in mass media?VR _talk 05:08, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  Theoretically possible, yes. But we already have sex in film, sexuality in music videos, sex in video games, and Exploitation of women in mass media. So some careful consideration would have to be given to the scope and to how to avoid forks. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 06:03, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  @Sdkb: thanks for pointing out those article. Of them, only one contains a section on effects (Exploitation of women in mass media#Effects on society. In fact, if this article is kept there should be a hatnote at that section to this article because the content that section covers is very similar to this article's scope.VR _talk 06:08, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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• Delete per WP:NOTESSAY - this is written like an essay. --Whiteguru (talk) 20:56, 29 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - While AfD is not cleanup, this is clearly just an essay and a likely content fork from effects of pornography. The title is also rather vague. What media? What effects? What definition of "sex"? HumanBodyPiloter5 (talk) 06:42, 1 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • from my perusal, “media”=porn, “effects”=effects of pornography, “sex”=straight, cis people doing it Dronebogus (talk) 10:18, 1 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete The first reference cited is not reliable. The article reads like a magazine op-ed using a dozen random academic journal articles with barely any relevancy to the topic. Multi7001 (talk) 02:57, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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