sum of two units reports just in ou...

sum of two units reports just in ought to give parents the flow

A research of 1,461 teens, which appears in the August issue of Pediatrics Today intimates that teens whose taste in music emanates to raunchy and sexually explicit lyrics start having sex sooner than other teen

"Sexually degrading music gives them a specific message about sex" said lead author Steven Martino, a researcher with Rand Corp.

Teen who listened to "lot of music" with degrading sexual messages were almost twice as likely to start sexual activities within the following pair years as were teens who listened to little or no sexually degrading music.

wherefore is that so hard to believe?

When we were young, many of us got steamed up each time we heard Marvin Gaye's "Let's prepare It On." But we didn't hear lyrics like that all the time. That's the difference. We also had the Isley Brothers with "I've Got Work to Do," and Aretha Franklin's "Respect"

on now, teens ought know they can't eat up these sexually demeaning lyrics without experiencing negative side imports If you listen to the same message above and over and over again, it will in a short time soak into your subconscious. if it be not that just like you can't eat junk subsistence all day and feel healthy, you can't listen to graphic pejoratives all day and it not affect you.

Really, it is as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but fascinating and frightening that the images of sex-driven black knob s and lascivious black women that a certain quantity of teens mindlessly emulate can be traced back to the pious ol' plantation days.

with what intent is this happening? Honestly.

It's happening because, we, their parents, have been bamboozled into believing we have to tolerate nasty speech to ensure we have unrestrained speech.

'Cultural expression'?

A hundred from now, slurs and harass words will still be derogatory, and folk will still be trying to figure gone out what effect the constant barrage of testy language had on a teen's developing intellect.

Meanwhile, we have family like Benjamin Chavis -- one time an honorable elder in the Black Power motion -- who is now making his living as the chief executive officer of the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network.

He asserts the offensive lyrics with the antiquated lame excuse: "Explicit music lyrics are a cultural expression that cogitates social and economic realities."

I've in no degree understood whose culture people like Chavis are talking about. If anything, the dissemination of raunchy lyrics is actually a counter-cultural expression. the public are getting paid, and they don't care by what mode much the music defiles, as in extent as the CDs fly on the farther side the shelves.

Meanwhile, another application of mind -- this one by the Washington, DC- based Child inclines -- reported that most sexually active teenagers don't regularly use condoms.

In fact, younger teen are the single in kinds least likely to use contraceptives the first time they have sex The subject of attention found males (76 percent) were more likely to use a mode of contraceptive at first than females (65 percent)

You can argue throughout the accuracy of these studies, however there's one thing we know for sure: The teen who engage in unprotect sex are likely to toss down a huge hole called straitened circumstances Some of them will not at any time make the journey back to solid domain

There's just no excuse for taking that fall -- not in these times.

take exception for the teens who are stuck disclosed in the backwoods, most young family have access to the Internet. The Internet has empowered teen by the agency of giving them private access to knowledge. Teen who squander that knowledge don't have a thread about what they are going to be up against when they must make it onward their own.

More important, given that in such a manner many teens are willing to start their sexual lives without protection, we've obviously failed to communicate the seriousness of HIV/AIDS.

No, it's not something that's happening in Africa. It's happening right here, in each city and in every neighborhood.

In 2005 it is estimated that 23 million race under 15 were living with HIV.

No individual is rapping about that.

Instead, an of the most popular lays are about oral sex. moreover what these performers don't compute young people is that oral sex is still unprotect sex And the sad thing is, a division of teens will believe the hype that could lead to pregnancy and HIV infection, before they believe these reports about HIV/AIDS. If they believe, they don't believe enough to defend themselves.

And unruffled though a lot of adults have devot a fate of effort to getting their message on the outside too many teens don't believe they can be infected with a sexually transmitted disease that will be with them for the intermission of their lives.

We ne help saving our kids from themselves.

I wish any of these culturally sensitive rappers would rap about that.

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