1. Music , Sex, and teens
By Lauren Gill

2. Question
Do sexually explicit music lyrics and videos have negative effects on teens’ views on women, sex, and relationships?

3. Music in the lives of teens
Listens to music hours a day
Watch about minutes of music videos
Contain large amount of sexually explicit content
Most prevalent in rap music and rap heavy metal

4. Music and Teens Listen for the beat
“I don’t really realize that the person is talking about having sex or raping a girl, but the message is being beaten into the teens’ heads”- Natasha Ramsey, teen editor sexetc.org

5. Music LyricS Every Girl Wait( The Whisper Song) Back that Ass Up
How did you react to these songs and how you think teens react to these songs?

6. Women In Music Videos Focus mainly on appearance Seen as sex objects
“Women are mostly props, not characters, not even people”

7. Teens Perception of sexually explicit content
Study of African American Teens in a Southern City in 2001
Ages 13-17
70% Female
Showed 3 hip hop videos
Choppa
The Clispe
Lil’Jon and the Eastside Boys

8. Teens Perception of sexually explicit content
59% said they tried to emulate the behavior they saw in music videos
Do you think that guys prefer girlfriends that look like or act like women in rap music videos? 63% Yes 37% No
Do you think that girls prefer boyfriends that look or act like men in rap music videos? 73% yes 29% No

9. Relationship between Sexually explicit music and teen’s Sexual behavior
4 yr study done 1461 teens between 12 and 17
Compared the effect of listening to degrading music versus non-degrading music
Teens who listened a lot of sexually degrading music
Twice as likely to start having sex
51% of heavy listening began having sex within two years
2/3 of teens wished they waited

10. Questions
Do sexually explicit music lyrics and videos have negative effects on teens’ views on women, sex, and relationships?
Is there validity in the statistics?
If there is a negative effect on teens, what could be done to stop it?

11. Ways To Prevent Music Affecting Teens
Parental involvement
Monitor what music teens purchase
Do not listen to explicit music around children
Have open dialogue with teens on explicit content in songs
Advertisers
Advertisers pull dollars from shows that show explicit content
Media literacy
Help teens become critical consumers of music