hear. Also, sexual content within the albums, as
in their artwork, is unacceptable. For example, the Frankenchrist album by the
Dead Kennedys, which portrays an extremely sexual painting by H.G. Giger,
entitled Landscape #20: Where Are We Coming From (Wishna 444). Not to mention
all the shows and concerts in which some kind of pornography is used or
displayed that is inappropriate for younger kids, such as Billy Joe Armstrong,
of Green Day, baring all for a concert of his in Philadelphia (Bernstein 95).
Also, in Cleveland, a frustrated Courtney Love tore off her bra and screamed,
"Now you know how I get all the guys," (Bernstein 95). Most parents would not
allow their children to attend a concert with actions such as Courtney Love's.
These actions and paintings, however, are choices of the musicians, part of
Who are we to say what is wrong and what is right? Parents are not always aware
of the references to sex in their children's music choices. Most parents would
not allow their children to listen to the music if they knew it consisted of
lyrical references to masturbation, orgasms, sodomy, and anal vapors (Zucchino
9). An example is the hit song, "Sugar Walls," by Sheena Easton which makes
references to orgasms: "The blood races to your private spots. . . come spend
the night inside my sugar walls," (Zucchino 9). "Feel the hot cum dripping on
your thigh," from "Tie You Up" by the Rolling Stones, is also a reference to
orgasms (Zucchino 9). Not to mention an excerpt from the 1983 song "Fits Like
A Glove" by Kiss, "when I go through her, it's just like a hot knife through
butter," (Zucchino 9). When the majority of people (children) listen to these
types of music, they do not sit and analyze the lyrics and say, "Gee, this
sure is quite sexual music." No, people listen to the music because they enjoy
the style, and most realize the sexual content of this music is not to be taken
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