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yes it is all thanks to the media, also anouther thing is this rap and hiphop crap emphizes drugs and sex, and the crowds love it. but the old style 70's rock type didnt do so as much

I feel this is something that is happening with each generation. Personal values and morals are fast escaping our teenagers in replacement of new trends and popularity.

Morals, family values and personal beliefs are no longer considered important, along with respect and dignity. It is a shame to see this happening as younger kids today see this behaviour as normal.

I do believe that morals have to be started in the home. My parents taught me about self respect and it is something I have always kept with my growing up and experiencing life.

Not until we are ready to have respect for older people do we discover respect for ourselves and those around us.

i think its amazing whenever i meet someone whos saving themselves for marriage. its so rare nowadays to find poeple who respect their bodies enough not to fritter them on meaningless unions. though i agree that senuality and sexuality can be beautiful, i think it should be saved for an eternal union between two people, not just a random hook-up you know? and as far as young'uns go...i'm a little disturbed. a survey at my middle school waaaaaaayyyy back in.....'02/'03 (i think, haha) said that almost half of the population there (6th, 7th, & 8th graders) had already had sex of some kind, wether it be penetrative or oral. it disturbed me then, and things have only gotten worse since. it makes me wonder what people are letting their kids watch/read/do. having a strong family unit with high morals is important to me, and in my family it has resulted in some very happy & successful virgins until marriage.

i've ranted a bit much huh?

nk(c-v)

But the 70's rockstars weren't better, though. They took drugs and sang about ********, too. But they handled the sex topic more subversive and better metaphors, than the rappers do today. Also I wouldn't blame it all on the rappers, there are also a lot who rap about sex, but not in a relation with power. I just want to refer to Cypress Hills "What's your name" where they rap about a one night stand with a girl who got tricked with lies.

There are still socially responsible musicians, especially those who appear immoralous are still leaving a point of truth to their lyrics. For example Al Jourgensen of Ministry was on heroine for a long time, maybe he doesn't sing about feelings and such things, but he has the guts as a musician to vent his anger about politics, he also closed the drug chapter of his life with the album "Dark side of the Spoon" signing a mark of morals in my eyes. There is still a "Kids, don't do drugs I know what I talk about"-message in my view on it. I respect such a thing, because it's hard for a musician not to get raped by major labels and go another way beyond the "mass compatibility", making the single artists fall into the deep pit like many others did.

Taboo changes from generation to generation. Just think, the 60's were a major revolution for sex and drugs with free love and all (which didn't mean more sex...not to everyone, it was open to interpretation).

Essentially what happens is that the world changes, and people become more exposed to things that earlier generations wouldn't. A lot of this comes down to the media as well as parents. Media will show the most risque things that they can in order to attract more viewers, by showing things that we see as taboo that are changing, they really do a great job of this. And a lot of parents these days are too caught up in other things to really become involved in their children's lives and they don't take the time to make sure that their kids are making good decisions.

But morals have been seriously degraded as well as what people see as right or wrong. If you look at the degradation of things in the past 50 years, you can see how bad they'll be in another 50 years; it's just something that is inevitable.

I understand about these children they are too young, in my point of view, to even know of these things. I know puberty its a frustrating time in a person's life but we must controle ourselves. These children are not just controled by the media but older teens who only think of currupting the minds of the children. Note I say children for they have not reached puberty or their teenaged years yet. Face it, our world today is all about exploiting people it always has and always will unless we start to do something and I believe that D.A.R.E. doesn't do much. I think they reach kids at a too young of an age. They went to my school once I was in the fourth grade. I was nine for goodness sake.