Rap Music, and the Influence It Has on Teens
9015632 Literature Review
From many people's point of views, they believe that media as a whole does have an effect on teenagers. But it is not a fact that music, videos or tv actually influence teens to do anything.
Regardless to what teens hear or see, their going to have sex, do drugs, or join gangs because they want to. The urban community does not revolve around music. The lyrics to someone's song is just what that person went through in their life and their just telling their story. How teens react to it, cannot be blamed on the artists. Some teens say media does influence them to have sex. Teens who said they listened to lots of music with degrading sexual messages were almost twice as likely to start having intercourse or other sexual activities within the following two years, as were teens who listened to little or no sexually degrading music.
Songs depicting men as “sex-driven studs,” women as sex objects and with explicit references to sex acts, are more likely to trigger early sexual behavior than those where sexual references are more veiled and relationships appear more committed, some studies 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. So there does seem to be a correlation between sexual music and sex. But does that make the relationship causal? Wouldn’t it make sense that the kind of teenagers who want to have a lot of sex are the same ones who want to listen to sexual music, and the ones who don’t want to have a lot of sex (or at least refrain from doing so) are the same ones who don’t listen to such music?
On the other hand, if the findings of this study are true, it sure makes things easier on all the people who are promoting birth control, safe sex, abstinence, and the like. Instead, they can just ban all the
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From many people's point of views, they believe that media as a whole does have an effect on teenagers. But it is not a fact that music, videos or tv actually influence teens to do anything.
Regardless to what teens hear or see, their going to have sex, do drugs, or join gangs because they want to. The urban community does not revolve around music. The lyrics to someone's song is just what that person went through in their life and their just telling their story. How teens react to it, cannot be blamed on the artists. Some teens say media does influence them to have sex. Teens who said they listened to lots of music with degrading sexual messages were almost twice as likely to start having intercourse or other sexual activities within the following two years, as were teens who listened to little or no sexually degrading music.
Songs depicting men as “sex-driven studs,” women as sex objects and with explicit references to sex acts, are more likely to trigger early sexual behavior than those where sexual references are more veiled and relationships appear more committed, some studies 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. So there does seem to be a correlation between sexual music and sex. But does that make the relationship causal? Wouldn’t it make sense that the kind of teenagers who want to have a lot of sex are the same ones who want to listen to sexual music, and the ones who don’t want to have a lot of sex (or at least refrain from doing so) are the same ones who don’t listen to such music?
On the other hand, if the findings of this study are true, it sure makes things easier on all the people who are promoting birth control, safe sex, abstinence, and the like. Instead, they can just ban all the
sexy