Music Triggers Sexua

Music triggers early inner employment composition published Sunday March 2, 2008 Gargonth Manning, Sunday Gleaner Reporter Tony Matterhorn stimulate the crowd at Passa Passa on Spanish Town Road in February 2004. A study found that reggae harmony is one of the influencing factors of early sexual behaviour in teens. File Teenagers atomic number 18 identifying practice of medicine, mainly of the dancehall genre, as a trigger for early sexual intercourse, according to a scientific study conducted by public policy analyst and doctoral beardidate, Tazhmoye Crawford, at the University of the western hemisphere Indies, Mona, last year.The study, which centred on contraceptive use among adolescents, revealed that a number of children olden nine to 17, identified popular music as the main specify for experimenting with sex. Music was identified as the fifth leading reason for having intercourse, with 10 per cent of boys indicating that it was the main reason, compared to three pe r cent of girls. But, the studys findings is generating a mix of arguments among artistes as well as academics.Behavioural scientist and music educator, Dr Marilyn Anderson says despite the fact that the music is macrocosm laid out as part of the culture, there is no mistrust that hard-core dancehall lyrics and content has an impact on the brain. Some rhythms, timbres and amplitudes of the music can affect emotional behaviour in humans, particularly the young, she says. Sexual action mechanism on buses She surmises there is a direct correlation, for example, between the loud, hard-core music played on some public transportation and the proliferation of sexual vaunt and activity on these same buses.Lecturer and author, Dr Donna Hope says while there are legitimate linkage between the two, the regularize of the music is non smashing when compared to other influences bid peer pressure and early painting to pornography. The usage of the music is quite negligible, she explains, except that it takes so much from what is around us in the society then it would speak to the highest degree these scenes in slipway that would suggest along with all the things that are happening on the fusee that, yes, a man should have sex because the heterosexual practice is real important in defining who is a man.Her thoughts are share by Dylan Pow, organiser of the famed Passa Passa street dance that takes place on the west Kingston end of Spanish Town Road. He argues that dancehall music is merely a speck in the array of sexual messages promoted by the mass media and is, therefore, no more influential than Hip Hop or Soca. Pow adds that sexuality is only one component of the music which reflects a wide cross-section of the inner-city experience. Sometimes is a slack man on top of the music charts sometime is a bad man on top sometimes is a comedic artiste on top, he says.He reasons that while events like his does not shun children, despite the graphic overture of sexu ality, it does not influence them any more than other aspects of global popular culture. The kids are not patrons, they are not buying liquor, they not doing anything and if you go to any break event in Jamaica for the most part, you going to find children who should be in their bed sleeping, he adds. Big impact on teenagers Popular cultural artiste Tony Rebel is not buying the argument that dancehall merely mirrors the experiences of inner-city folk. He says it as impacts on those receiving the message, especially teenagers.He says while it is not the only medium of exposure and influence, it plays an important part in early sexualisation. The music is the one that is inform a lot of the youths how to have sex, the name of certain types of sex acts, how to do it. It is all descriptive and even prescriptive, he argues. He adds that the music has trim down sex to a casual activity and fails to promote and educate youngsters about protecting themselves from sexually transmitted d iseases during intercourse. Rebel notes too that more males are impacted by the sexual messages coming out of the dancehall because it is delivered from a manlike perspective