A study has shown that teens listening to song with sexual lyrics on their iPods everyday tend to have sex sooner. Doesn’t matter the genre, as long as there is reference to sex, the influence seem to be strong.
The study was conducted via telephone interviews with 1,461 participants aged 12 to 17. The results have shown that only 29 percent of teens that listen to little or no sexually music started having sex within two years. Versus a staggering 51 percent of those that listened to heavy doses of such music.
“A lot of teens think that’s the way they’re supposed to be, they think that’s the cool thing to do. Because it’s so common, it’s accepted,” said Ramsey, a teen editor for Sexetc.org, a teen sexual health Web site produced at Rutgers University.
So now, all you young Casanovas know what to do. And parents, now you know how to stop them.
August 12th, 2006 at 12:14 am
This just in: water wet, sky blue, teenagers libidinous.
I wish I could typify this newsbite as something more than just another tired iteration of the story “Teen sex: Threat, or Menace!” but nothing else comes to mind. If you listened to more Mike Doughty, you’d know that correlation is not causation.
August 15th, 2006 at 10:34 pm
Well the research doesn’t decern whether the teenagers are listening to music with sexual lyrics because they’re more sexual themselves, and therefore more likely to have sex anyway. I listen to music that’s similar to how I think and feel, so I think this judgement that music influences sex is a bit misfounded as it’s clearly someone looking at an effect and claiming it to be a cause.
Our world works via Cause > Effect; not Effect > Cause. I thought scientists should already know this, but now they seem more interested in figuring out people are fat (well done genius, I figured that out when I looked) than actual meaningful science.
What’s the next ‘big’ discovery going to be, that people have sex?