Rainbows, butterflies and pretty faces are sadly not all that you get to see on television. A lot of blood and brawl attract viewers like you like piranhas, and movie makers are capitalizing on this weird aspect of human nature. Violence attracts viewers. Here are the five types of violence you get exposed to in many television programs.

1. PHYSICAL BRUTALITY. Among the types, physical brutality is the most obvious violent content you get to watch on television. You need no further explanation or convincing that whenever you see fighting scenes, tortures, stabbing, punching, hitting, slapping, sawing, slicing and beating living beings, you're witnessing physical brutality at its rawest and simplest sense.

Sometimes physical brutality is left to your imagination, such as flashing shots of a gaping wound, a black eye, a limp or a bruised arm. Although you never got to witness the fight, you instinctively know how the movie character got hurt.

2. SEX. Oral sex, anal sex and the strangest positions the human brain can positively conceive are all part of the sexual content you'll find in television programs. Love scenes are common, and although some are portrayed tastefully and with great subtlety, others border on obscene fetishes and hard-core pornography.

Apparently, the sight of two or three people copulating makes a lot of programs rate better than their peers. Just like physical brutality, sexual content can be left to your imagination as well. Imageries and sounds are used by some movie makers to program your mind for sex. Watch Dirty, Sexy Money and go figure.

3. NUDITY. There are many ways you can classify nudity. There's frontal nudity to include exposure of the breasts and genitalia; there's sex-related nudity to include shots or scenes preceding or highlighting lovemaking; and there's non-sex-related nudity which expose human anatomy with the absence of sexual thought or connection.

Per se, there's nothing violent about viewing an unclothed human, but because of the nudity associated with torture scenes and disturbing sexual acts in many movies and television programs, nudity is now considered a type of violence.

4. HATE SPEECH. Are you familiar with the saying, “Stones and sticks won't hurt me, but words will”? This is the essence of violence found in hate speech. Words carry venom that can really be more hurtful than physical brutality itself.

Hate speech may come in the form of curses and cussing, and it may come in the form of racially discriminating language. Today, expressions such as “f*ck” and “sh*t” are commonplace that even the young generation is mimicking them.

5. DRUG ABUSE. Somehow scenes of drug abuse remain a favorite among movie makers. Drug abuse scenes not only contain physical brutalities but also carry the potentially misleading message that drugs are a “cool way to escape reality” and as such, have been classified to be violent.

In fact, if you're choosing a film to rent for your young nephews and nieces, you'll notice right away that any movie that includes drug abuse shots is automatically rated PG-13 where adult guidance is not just recommended but required.