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I'd hate to see what happens if the Tigers collapse...Damn, you blame everything on rap music, huh?
Damn, you blame everything on rap music, huh?
I'd hate to see what happens if the Tigers collapse...Damn, you blame everything on rap music, huh?
My god, man, is no four-legged creature safe from you?
Damn, you blame everything on rap music, huh?
Well, if Disco can cause A.I.D.S....
I guess I think this is kind of a good thing. I'm not much older than high school girls, and even I sometimes am shocked by what they're wearing.
Maybe it does cause somethings.Damn, you blame everything on rap music, huh?
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/nation/15216803.htm
CHICAGO - Teens whose iPods are full of music with raunchy, sexual lyrics start having sex sooner than those who prefer other songs, a study found.
Whether it's hip-hop, rap, pop or rock, much of popular music aimed at teens contains sexual overtones. Its influence on their behavior appears to depend on how the sex is portrayed, researchers found.
Teens who said they listened to lots of music with degrading sexual messages were almost twice as likely to start having intercourse or engaging in other sexual activities within the following two years as were teens who listened to little or no sexually degrading music.
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.
Exposure to lots of sexually degrading music "gives them a specific message about sex," said lead author Steven Martino, a researcher for Rand Corp. in Pittsburgh. Boys learn they should relentlessly pursue women, and girls learn to view themselves as sex objects, he said.
"We think that really lowers kids' inhibitions and makes them less thoughtful" about sexual decisions and may influence them to make decisions they regret, he said.
The study, based on telephone interviews with 1,461 participants ages 12 to 17, appears in the August issue of Pediatrics, being released today.
Benjamin Chavis, chief executive officer of the Hip-Hip Summit Action Network, a coalition of hip-hop musicians and recording industry executives, said, "We caution rushing to judgment that music more than any other factor is a causative factor" for early sex among teens.
Yvonne K. Fulbright, a New York-based sex researcher and author, said factors including peer pressure, self-esteem and home environment are probably more influential than the research suggests.
"It's a little dangerous to just pinpoint one thing. You have to look at everything that's going on in a young person's life," she said. "When somebody has a healthy sense of themselves, they don't take these lyrics too seriously."
But David Walsh, a psychologist who heads the National Ins ute on Media and the Family, said the results echo research on the influence of videos and other visual media.
The brain's impulse-control center undergoes "major construction" during the teen years even as an interest in sex starts to blossom, he said.
Add sexually arousing lyrics, and "it's not that surprising that a kid with a heavier diet of that ... would be at greater risk for sexual behavior," Walsh said.
Gee, you know what? They could have written that story in 1956 as easily as they could have in 2006.
But now it's rap that is bad, not rock and roll.
To be fair, though ... I can honestly say I was thoroughly mortified when I found out my 9 & 11 year olds knew what 50 cent meant by "lick the lollipop".
Can you imagine Elvis singing that song?
But some people make it out like rap is the ONLY genre that talks about sex.To be fair, though ... I can honestly say I was thoroughly mortified when I found out my 9 & 11 year olds knew what 50 cent meant by "lick the lollipop".
Can you imagine Elvis singing that song?
It's been going on forever. I'm sure some wandering minstrel back in the day sang a song about frollicking in his fair maiden's dewy valley and got beheaded for it.But some people make it out like rap is the ONLY genre that talks about sex.
Of course they all do ... but I think rap gets most of the heat because it tends to be a lot more explicit and doesn't leave a lot to the imagination.
*shrugs*
That would go completely over my kids' head, or they would ignore it because it sounds fruity and boring.frollicking in his fair maiden's dewy valley
That would absolutely get their attention.He ed the out of that and blew skeet on her face
Damn, that's just sad. No 9 year old should know what the heck that means. When I was 9, I was still playing with my Barbie's...
If I had been drinking something at the moment I read that SW, my company would be billing you for a new keyboard!Of course they all do ... but I think rap gets most of the heat because it tends to be a lot more explicit and doesn't leave a lot to the imagination.
*shrugs*
That would go completely over my kids' head, or they would ignore it because it sounds fruity and boring.
That would absolutely get their attention.
They still giggle and can't believe how gross that is, but they know what it is nonetheless.
And you STILL don't know what it means.........
If I had been drinking something at the moment I read that SW, my company would be billing you for a new keyboard!
Sorry.
Such lies - you're one of those people sent out by the government to prevent us from finding out the truth by ruining our keyboards!!!
I would never argue that rap CAUSES any of that, but I would argue that it helps to perpetuate it... Just like 80's hair metal perpetuated the objectifying of women, emo perpetuates suburban teenage melancholy and mainstream country music perpetuates generally poor taste in music.
But really, in Middle School and High School, the only reason anyone does anything is because other people are doing it. They dress that way because their friends dress that way, and they listen to rap because their friends listen to rap.
But they all do, any 9 year old with some mental capacity should be able to figure it out...9 years old is like 3rd grade. Males at that age are already thinking about hot chicks, I know I was.
It's not that hard for a kid to figure out that some big black guy isn't rapping about lollipops.
I am one of the few that doesn't do because others do.
But can they correctly recognize a yak when they see one?
I wouldn't know
But enough reminiscing about Saturday.
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