Are You Trying to Kill Me?

Single Girl — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:30:39 +0000

One early morning, a couple weeks ago, I was awaken by a frantic phone call from a girlfriend.

“SG, this dude is trying to kill me?”

“Huh?” I jumped out of my stupor. “Call the police!”

“No, not like bang, bang kill me. His ass is a slipper.”

She’d been seeing this guy for a couple weeks. That night they had what was known as the “we’re going to sleep together tonight” date. He picked her up from her place. She wore a flirty dress and made sure her bra and panties matched. They went to a low key but nice restaurant, sat in the corner, next to each other so they could gaze in one another eyes. She was very hopeful about there being more after she dropped her draws.

Several hours later she’s on my phone, going nuts.

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Can Dirty Lyrics Lead To Over-Sexed Teens?

Hello Beautiful — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:28:08 +0000

Unsurprising news alert! A new study shows that listening to songs with sexual lyrics can lead to higher and more risky sexual behavior among teenagers. Says the Canadian Press,

High exposure to lyrics that describe degrading sex is associated with high levels of sexual behaviour in teens, a new study suggests.

The research, published Tuesday in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, was conducted in three large urban high schools in the Pittsburgh area, and involved asking Grade 9 students about the number of hours a day they listen to music and their favourite musical artists.

“Music exposure is growing … there is now unprecedented access to music and it’s also becoming more direct, more explicit,” said co-author Dr. Brian Primack of the Center for Research on Health Care at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

“Adolescents are exposed to six to eight hours of mass media messages per day, and since it is such an important exposure, we need to know if this is affecting health.”

He noted, for example, that data have shown that up to 25 per cent of American teenage girls have sexually transmitted diseases.

STDs are particularly problematic in poor communities, Primack said, and that was a reason for focusing on three urban high schools where about half the kids take part in a lunch program – indicating they fall below a certain income level.

“We divided the cohort into three … those who were exposed to the lowest amount (of music with degrading references), those who were exposed to sort of the medium amount, those who were exposed to the most,” he said.

“And those who were exposed to the most were more than twice as likely to have had sexual intercourse, and that’s even controlling for all of the other factors that we looked at that we thought might be related to uptake of sexual intercourse.”

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