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As we all know, watching professional wrestling makes teenagers more likely to fight, physically, on dates. Now comes word (via Web MD) that listening to raunchy music makes them more likely to have sex. Or, more specifically, music with degrading lyrics (defined as lyrics describing males as “insatiable studs” and women as “sex objects”) makes them want to have sex. Oddly, the study, by RAND, found no correlation between listening to non-degrading sexual lyrics and sexual behavior. Something doesn’t seem quite right about that…
