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Gossip Girl on CW

The CW network takes a perverse pride in its teenage sex-soap Gossip Girl. In its advertising for the program, the network has proudly flaunted legitimate criticism of the show, placing phrases like “Very Bad for You,” “Every Parent’s Nightmare” and (the PTC’s contribution) “Mind-blowingly Inappropriate” on websites, magazine pages, buses and billboards everywhere. The program definitely lived down to its billing on its November 3rd episode. Airing during the Family Hour of 8:00 p.m. ET, Gossip Girl is the Worst TV Show of the Week.

The episode finds teen Blair chaperoning Emma, the fifteen-year-old daughter of an elite Yale donor, during a night out in Manhattan. Emma explicitly states that her goal for the night is to lose her virginity, out of a sense of competition with another girl, Muffy. Muffy is rumored to have scheduled her own first sexual experience for the same night, and brags that she has a date with the captain of the lacrosse team: “They call him the De-Virginator!” Emma squeals.

Emma cannot bear the thought that her rival will be deflowered before her. Commiserating with Blair, Emma pouts, “I want Bacardi and a boy. This body’s open for business!” Emma attempts to enlist Blair’s help, but Blair is rightly concerned – about her own future: “She determined to become a woman on my watch. And if I don't help pimp her out, she’s going to character assassinate me to the dean.”

Ultimately, Blair manages to foil Emma’s plans, telling her, “Having sex for the first time shouldn't be part of a competition to beat Muffy the Lacrosstitute.” This is the rankest hypocrisy on the part of the program; Blair herself, though only a high school senior, has been shown to have had sex with multiple men in past episodes.

Gossip Girl, in both its storylines and its advertising, encourages teens to rebel against parents and teachers – and, in fact, against their own best interests. The program disregards all the possible negative consequences of teenage sex. With a recent Rand Corporation study showing that teens with “frequent exposure to TV sexual content” were twice as likely to be involved in a pregnancy in the following three years as teens who did not, Gossip Girl‘s total disregard for its teenage audience earns the program the title of Worst TV Show of the Week.