Should Sex and Violence Be Restricted?

When you turn on the TV after coming home from school or work, what would you expect to see? A talk-show with an African-American woman talking about life stories, a show about babies running around in diapers that can talk (Rugrats) or one showing people killing each other? Most people would choose the first or the second, and that is the way TV is. During the afternoon when young children or teens are sitting around the TV, those are the shows that are aired, but it doesn't mean that the other types of shows showing violent or sexual acts can't be aired at all. Why can't both types of shows be on TV? If we have the freedom of speech, shouldn't we also have the freedom to watch what we want on TV? What you watch on TV is your choice and affects yourself. If it makes you act in a negative way, you are the one controlling those actions, not the networks that put shows like CSI, COPS, or Sex and the City on TV. Television has been around ever since the late 1800's in some sort of form. The human race has been around much longer than this and violence has been a part of human society ever since then. We have known many different kinds of violence from punching a kid on the playground to flying a plane into a building and killing thousands. It would be very hard to limit the violence that exists in our lives because we see it everywhere we go, showing that TV isn't the only outlet for violence.
Sex is a topic that every kid faces in his or her life at some point. Whether it is discussed in school, at home, or with friends, kids experience it. In today's world, it is very hard to go without seeing these images of violence or talking about sex because it is everywhere. And that can actually be a good thing. The knowledge kids learn about topics like sex can come from TV and can help them in life. There are such shows that involve discussing sex in order to teach about safe sex, the results from unsafe sex, and just basic knowledge on how to make good choices for