Songs, Lyrics, Sex and Teenagers

 

Is sex and music a gate away to teenagers for having sex?

It is believed that the music industries have an influence on the behaviour of the children today.

Studies have shown that there is a strong link between music that young teens listen to and their sexual behaviours. It is proved that "average teen listens to 1.5 to of  music every day.

Girls who watch more than 14 hours of music videos are more likely to engage in unsafe sex with multiple partners and get STI. Boys who watch violent sex scenes on television have less sympathy to victims of sexual violence".

Many of these songs have sexual themes that can range from being romantic and playful to raunchy and degrading",

This is a chart of sexual content of different genres of music (based on this study)

Musical Genre		Number of songs per album(s)	% of songs with sexual content	% of songs with degrading sexual content
Hard Rock		12	50	0
Alternative Rock		26	33	0
Rap-Rock		25	127	88
Rap		43	141	129
Rap-Metal		14	21	14
R & B		12	42	17
Country		25	8	0
Teen Pop

It was also said that "Teens who listened to lots of music with degrading sexual messages were almost twice as likely to start having intercourse or other sexual activities within the following two years as were teens who listened to little or no sexually degrading music

The Influence Of The Americans

Looking at world music today you would see that the influence of the Americans in our people who live by being in the spotlight is very obvious to see, I wont dwell too much on that I will show you some videos of Beyonce and that of Chomee who is a South Africa female artists who her dances and performances make men risk losing their wives by coming home late at night coming back from her performance. One would reckon that their existed has became something like much needed vitamin by alpha males.

This form of entertainment once made the former liberation leader and South Africas first black democratically elected President Nelson Mandela to complain about the Boom Shakas  way of dressing and their much admired(by men) way of dancing which was very provocative in many ways depending on ones beliefs.


Today we can see that as being just another effect of globalisation or maybe if you look at with an understanding of how Africans used to dress before the missionaries came you wouldn’t be very surprised by the dances to some extent but the almost naked bodies is part of our heritage which has to be expressed and treasured.