Sexual Content in Music and Its Relation to Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors among Consumers: A Meta-Analytic Review

Wright, Chrysalis L.; Centeno, Brittany

doi:10.1080/01463373.2018.1437055

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“…Exposure to sexual content in music is also associated with engaging in risky sexual behaviors (e.g., early age at sexual intercourse, multiple sexual partners, engaging in unprotected sex; Coyne & Padilla-Walker, 2015 ; Frison et al, 2015; Johnson-Baker et al, 2016; Peterson et al, 2007; Wingood et al, 2003; Wright & Brandt, 2015; Wright & Centeno, 2018; Wright & Qureshi, 2015; Wright & Rubin, 2017). This association varies based on music genre with rap, hip hop, pop, and R&B having more of an effect compared with other genres (Wright & Qureshi, 2015; Wright & Rubin, 2017).…”

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Popular Music Media Literacy: Recommendations for the Education Curriculum

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Advances in technology have made music more readily accessible and geographic distance irrelevant in dissemination of music. Greater access to popular music has resulted in greater consumption by both children and adolescents. Popular music in the United States may contain the most sexual content, compared with other forms of media. Exposure to such content is associated with the development of gender ideals and identity, objectification and sexualization of women, permissive sexual attitudes and risky sexual behaviors, as well as greater acceptance of sexual and gendered violence. Even so, current education standards do not include media literacy, much less popular music media literacy, and do not prepare children for best practices related to media consumption. Some of the inadequacies in current education standards include introducing education about media influence on personal development at an age far later than children’s engagement with contemporary media, avoidance of controversial topics, and not making this education compulsory. Considering the lack of media literacy provided in the curriculum, we outline specific foundational curricular recommendations related to media education and specifically for popular music media literacy.

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Popular Music Media Literacy: Recommendations for the Education Curriculum

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“…C.L. Wright and B. Centeno (Wright, Centeno, 2018) explored the sexual contents in music by using meta-analytic analysis. First time meta-analysis is made on this topic.…”

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Consumption of Sexually Explicit Content through Web Series and Emerging Adults' Sexual Objectification: An Empirical Study

2021

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Modern technologies play a significant role in shaping gender perception and adolescents giving more emphasize on the external rather than internal features of an individuals. This study has been designed to examine the effects of the sexually explicit content of web series on emerging adults' objectification. Survey method was applied, and data was collected from 700 undergraduate participant ages 18 to 23 studying in various public and private sector universities of Lahore, Pakistan. The study is driven by theoretical framework of uses and gratification and objectification theory. The result of the study showed that exposure of sexually explicit content through web series among male was strongly correlated with sexual objectification, dis-empathy, commenting about women's body and insulting unattractive women. Moreover, web series exposure of sexually explicit content among female was not significantly correlated with male objectification. In addition to this, web series exposure is a significant predictor of sexual objectification disempathy, commenting about women's body and insulting unattractive women among male university students. On the other hand, web series exposure of sexually explicit content is not significant predictor of sexual objectification among female university students. Hence the information acquired in this study can help in understanding the objectification decision made by males and females of this society and motivate parents to keep check on the type of contents their children are exposed to. Implication regarding media effects on gender perception and sexual objectification among male and females are discussed.

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