For Clues on Teenage Sex, Experts Look to Hip-Hop

Suggestive, certainly. Misogynistic, sometimes. But dangerous?

By TARA PARKER-POPE, The New York Times
Published: November 6, 2007

Hip-hop, with its suggestive lyrics, videos and dance moves, has long been criticized by public health experts and parents, who fear that it leads to risky sexual behavior among teenagers.

But it has never been clear whether there is something uniquely insidious about hip-hop or whether the problem is simply that most people over 40 just don’t understand it. After all, nearly every generation seems troubled by the musical preferences of the next; remember, Elvis’s gyrating hips were once viewed as a corrupting influence on the nation’s youth.
(full NYTimes article)
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