Comments on: Sexy Songs Lead Teens to Have Sex

By: Pug

Pug — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 16:45:48 +0000

Why, back in my day we always hoped enough beer would do the trick. On rare occassions, it worked.

Never thought much about the music.

By: Anderson

Anderson — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 15:10:50 +0000

Had the Democratic Party not invented horniness in 1967, today's youth would be chaste indeed.

By: just me

just me — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 22:36:12 +0000

I think how you define "parental permissiveness" for purposes of control is pretty subjective.

I strongly suspect that parents have a lot of influence here, but I will also say that if you are fed constantly with songs that refer to sex as nothing more than lust and/or physical gratification, you may be more open to sex when tempted.

By: Gollum

Gollum — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 22:32:47 +0000

Interestingly, the authors point out that by the time their survey was complete, half their sample had become legal adults and, in their words, "initiation of intercourse in this group would not be considered early according to US norms and might be considered healthy."

By: yetanotherjohn

yetanotherjohn — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 22:23:12 +0000

Tipper Gore must be smiling at her vindication.

By: Gollum

Gollum — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 22:10:41 +0000

You can download the entire article at the Pediatrics website.

By: randall

randall — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 21:55:09 +0000

Darn that rock-n-roll music anyway. So that was my problem as teenager, I must have had the wrong music in my Pioneer Super-tuner and 6x9 speakers(1979),I wasn't getting any at all. I thought it was because I was a geeky photography club nerd but now I know the truth. Come on now teen have been having sex since there have been teens, well some of them anyway. I have to admit that some of today's music is sexually degrading to women so it's know wonder that more teens are having sex at an earlier age. As a father of two girls and a boy all I can say is listen to your children, no subject is taboo if they want to talk about it.

By: Gollum

Gollum — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 21:44:56 +0000

You can access the full text of the article on the Pediatrics website. The study relies on two unnamed raters who reviewed lyrics they obtained online and then decided whether the lyrics were degrading or not. The study offers two examples:

Examples of nondegrading sexual lyrics from our study include: "When my eyes open I wanna see your face/Spendin' my days in your sweet embrace/Just one night with you could set me free/I get next to you and I get dizzy, dizzy/You make me think of things to come/I’m dreamin’ day and night of making love," from Ninety-Eight Degrees, "Dizzy."46 Examples of degrading sexual lyrics include: "Half the ho's hate me, half them love me/The ones that hate me/Only hate me 'cause they ain't fucked me/And they say I'm lucky/Do you think I've got time/To fuck all these ho's?" from Ja Rule, "Livin' It Up."47

I'd agree with the raters on those two points, but I'd also guess that a lot of the references were far more difficult to judge. Inasmuch as the correlation was found to lie between interval to onset of sex and "degrading" lyrics (versus, say, plain old explicit lyrics), the criteria for what is degrading or not seem to be of critical importance.

By: A view from the mushroom...

A view from the mushroom... — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Sexy Songs Lead Teens to Have Sex