While campaigners have long blamed the media for forcing sexualized imagery on children and teens, a study by Temple psychologist Laurence Steinberg found that young people are more influenced by factors at home. Steinberg analyzed data from a 2006 study claiming that children between the ages of 12 and 14 who consumed a large amount of sexualized media including films, television, music and magazines were more likely to have sex by age 16. For his study, Steinberg looked at various aspects of the teenagers' lives, including school performance, religiousness, parental relationships and perceptions of friends' attitudes about sex. "It may look like media exposure leads to sexual activity, but the relation between the two is artificial," he said.