New study links sexually explicit lyrics and adolescent sex

A new study about music and teenage sex is interesting, not for its obvious results, but for a nuance that will probably be ignored by the so-called news media.

From The Raw Story:

The authors tracked the sexual behaviour and musical tastes of 1,461 US adolescent participants in reference to 16 top artists whose lyrics "depicted sexually insatiable men pursuing women valued only as sex objects."

Among heavy listeners of sexually degrading music - where men are "studs" and women are sex objects - 51 per cent started having sex within two years, versus 29 per cent of those who listened to little or none of that type of music.

But here is the really interesting part:

There was "no correlation found between sexual behaviour and sexualized lyrics that were not degrading in tone." The authors of the study concluded that "degrading lyrics" teach boys to "relentlessly pursue women," and teach girls to "view themselves as sex objects."