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Sexual and violent songs are corrupting the minds of our youths

Jun 25, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
I am the victim of attempted rape. I write this as an absolute, in this my second month, the month to discard absolutes. Further, to emphasise awareness to the many victims of attempted rape, rape, general abuse and the other unmentioned social problems, that they are not alone since there are those who understand the psychological effects of these occurrences.
In addition it would also be wise to elaborate on all of the causes of these villainies. However, the focus of this letter is the “sexual and violent songs” which in my opinion should be banned from radio and television. These songs are an intensely bad influence other than “drug abuse” to the human race.
Please take these words of advice to the victims of criminals. Whatever you do, do not blame yourself and don’t let this bring you down no matter what the negative side of society says about you.
Be warned, some people will be for you while on the other hand, sometimes unexpectedly, there will be those who are not for you. However, you should take that as motivation and a challenge to put on your white wings and fly, so that they may always look up to you as a positive role model. Additionally villains nearly or actually come up with provocative alibi; as the victims and witnesses do not allow their fabricated stories to get to you. They are only trying to vindicate themselves in society.
Sexual and violent songs should be banned from radio and television because of the negative effects they have on society.
In addition there needs to be a profound look at the words from songs that the youths listen to. What is the logical encouragement that sexual violent songs offer?
Sexual and violent songs are corrupting the minds of youth, making them irresponsible and influencing viewers to reject the morals of society, based on their persuasive effectiveness for one and all.
It is wise to emphasise that the singer is a predominant role model. Take for instance the famous Caribbean singer “Movado” with his outrageous popular songs “Me squeeze her breast like de trigger of ma gun!” and “Kill them all and done!” The phrases serve as a typical definition of sexual and violent songs.
Additionally, they are appealing to society’s mind, instilling to put these words into practice to fit in and be “popular”. Furthermore they are degrading women. It is only fair if we ask ourselves, is this what the media should be teaching us? Do we really need to learn that?
Rational parents are not always around to monitor their children’s shows on television or songs on the radio. Because of the fact that parents are engaged in work activities an average of 12 hours a day, five days a week for every 8760 hours per year, children are left “unsupervised” by parents for approximately 240 hours, for 20 days a month.
Therefore it is safe to say that the mass media are guides for children and must not at any time promote sexual and violent songs.
The popularity derived from sexual and violent songs captures the minds of youths and serves also to motivate criminals to continue their negative practices. Furthermore, consider the revealing clothing that make up the attractiveness of the dancers in these recordings. Some men develop the urge to want women and if they can’t get a girl within a specific period of time, they tend to resort to rape. Likewise, girls watch these sexy dancers in a video and they start attiring themselves like these “dancers” who are basically their role models. Now wouldn’t you agree that what a child sees and hears as popular, that is what they will eventually portray?
To recapitulate sexual and violent crimes are corrupting the minds of people, furthermore, because potential supervision is less due to work, children need to learn positive things from the television and radio.
To go further, in adding insult to injury, these songs are highly responsible for motivating villains to be strong in their negative activities. Now it is “rock solid” to say that sexual and violent songs should be banned from the mass media, if we want the human race to live up to a humanitarian society.
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