14 DAY TRIAL // A recent study concerned with adolescents' taste for music found that teens who listen to music with explicitly sexual lyrics have sex earlier than their counterparts who prefer "demurer" rhythms and tones.
It does not matter the music genre teenagers listen to. It may be dance, hip-hop, rap, rock or pop. All that matters is the message comprised in the song's lyrics. Researchers found that the lyrics influence teenagers' sexual behavior and enhance their desire for starting their sex life as soon as possible.
Modern music is known for its sexual hints or explicit sexual lyrics. These songs usually depict men as "sex studs" or "sex machines", while women are seen as "sex objects" and even "sexual slaves." The sexual message in modern lyrics is used as a means for attracting teenagers worldwide and appealing to them.
Teenagers and youngsters are the most concerned about sex of all groups of age, especially when they have not had any intimate relationships. Sexual lyrics based music use this as a target and its sexually explicit message as a trap in order to "snare" young people. The more sold an album is, the more money enter the artist's pocket. This is all that it is about. Maybe if artists or wanna be artists nowadays would be a little bit more concerned about the quality of their music, then sexual aggressiveness would not be that common among teenagers.
The US based Rand Corporation, Pittsburgh research found how the music teenagers listen to influence their desire of being sexually active. After investigating 1461 participants with ages ranging from 12 to 17, researchers came to the conclusion that teenagers who listen to music with degrading sexual messages are twice more prone to start their sex life in the following two year period than those who listen to little or no such music. 51% of the heavy listeners started having sexual intercourse within two years, as compared to only 29% of those who did not enjoy sexually explicit lyrics.
Most volunteers were virgin when the study began, in 2001, but further interviews were performed by researchers, involving the same participants, in 2002 and 2004. This is how the team that conducted the study established the percentage of those who have become sexually active during the follow up period.
Researchers explain in their report published in this month's issue of the Pediatric Journal that sexually degrading music offers teenagers "a specific message about sex" and it "really lowers kids' inhibitions and makes them less thoughtful."