Public health researchers at Columbia are studying hip hop's influence on teenage sexuality, whether the overt sexuality of the music, lyrics, and dances has an impact on early sexual behavior. Turns out the primary influences on sexual behavior are alcohol, drugs, and peer pressure.
However, researchers are still looking into whether certain types of lyrics spur adolescent sex, after the RAND Corporation's 2006 landmark study that suggested that teenagers who were exposed to sexually degrading lyrics were twice as likely to start having sex within 2 years of the beginning of the study.
My question to you, dear reader, is: "Do teenagers actually listen to the lyrics and internalize the messages therein or do they just memorize lyrics to look cool?"
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Hip-Hop Lyrics + Teenagers = Sex?
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I'm going to have to go with yes. I have no other discussion nor do I care to back it up. but i think a kid exposed to say...the beatles...from ages 10-12 is less likely to be interested in 'seeing that dick' as the ying yang twins so delightfully whisper.
Really, because I was raised nearly exclusively on The Beatles and Catholicism, and I'm still pretty sure I wanted to get some head by the time I was 11.
As I'm about to post in another article, I think images in popular music simply reflect popular images already existing.
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