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
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