Sims Prevent Teen Pregnancy

Do You Know Where Your Kids Are?

ABC Family show devoid of videogames

Play WoW like everyone else!!!We all know that if 15 year old girls were playing Everquest, EVE Online, Guild Wars, Sims, or World of Warcraft, they wouldn't be having sex right now! My girlfriend and I started watching this show about high school kids. She watched it due to her amazingly long rubber-neck, the ability to not turn away from a horrific car crash, and I watched it because I'm a teacher. After blowing through Season 1, I noticed something peculiure, no videogames. The show is called The Secret Life of an American Teenager, yet I see no games or systems or even knock offs of systems, like South Park's Gamesphere 3000 or some garbage. It got me to thinking, if they were playing games there would be no sex going on thus no prego kids.

Understanding the show as a cautionary tale, I get that the producers didn't want to distract from the messages they were pedaling to...whoever is their intended audience. But I'm sure if they showed WOW or Guild Wars in the series it might be tied to an anti-social virgin with "absolutly no life," the stereotype of us all. So maybe I should be thankful, but still I'm reminded of this video:

Now I know it's been a while since I've been in high school, and maybe this is a sign of my aging, but being a gaming nerd in high school had amazing benefits. I never got a girl pregnant and I didn't go out drinking or doing drugs. Gamecube was my drug and Gamestop was my dealer. Sure there were some social consequences, but I left high school without too much baggage. 

So is it true, playing games prevents teen pregnancy, or am I living in the fantasy world most parents my age are living in?