A Study into the Obvious

It's amazing that it takes a 3-year study to point out the blatantly obvious - that listening to sexually explicit music/lyrics at a young age can lead to increased sexual behavior.

The STUDY finds that "among heavy listeners, 51 percent started having sex within two years, versus 29 percent of those who said they listened to little or no sexually degrading music." The results were obtained by a phone survey which followed a group of teens over the course of several years.

Now, I am not blind to the fact that other factors can contribute to increased sexual activity among American children. Additionally, I am not claiming that this study constitutes rock solid proof that any teen who listens to such will become another Walt Whitman, either (studies are often open to many interpretations). However, it doesn't take rocket science to see the damage being done to our youth as a result of the MTVs of the world and their messages of sexual liberation (even for pre-teens). And, having once been a hormone-filled teen myself, I can say with authority that the more sexual information I was fed - the more I became interested in it.

Even without a study it is reasonable to assume that listening to music with erotic beats and sensual rhythms (mixed with graphic lyrics) will only add to increase this stimulation that might otherwise be put off until someone is a little more sexually mature. If this wasn't the case, then why not just play bandstand music in clubs and discos?

There will be some who will demand that I "step down from my morale high-horse" when citing reports like this one. To them, these studies fly in the face of their liberal philosophies of "freedom without responsibility." They say that kids will always be sexual creatures so why try to stifle that impulse under some outdated, draconian religious ideal of morality? They look the other way when lives are destroyed by the emotional trauma, depression, disease and broken familes that often follow teenage sexual relationships.

To those people I ask: is your life so much better now that you have sex, abortions, antibiotics and antidepressents on demand? You think maybe, just maybe we'd have a little less use for these dramatic and life-altering (and life-killing) crutches if we had acted more responsibily as teens, or had parents who enforced a little morality? At the very least, maybe if we controlled the content of what went into our kid's ears (instead of acting like destroying their life is an acceptable option) by cutting the demand for such disgusting music, we could actually make a difference. Rather than pretending to make a difference by subscribing to the popular liberal sexual ideals of the 21st century.