Reply #88: And we don't need to read the study to know... [View All]

[sofa king]

...that the news article about it incorrectly and selectively reports major details, because that's what all science articles written by non-science journalists do. This one is no exception, for this simple reason:

That article spends a lot of time discussing what sort of lyrics were considered "degrading." But there is not one sentence describing a causitive relationship between that degrading music and sexual behavior. It simply asserts such a relationship without explanation.

That would get your ass failed in any science class in any middle school in America.

If this is such an important study, its importance is that for the first time it shows that lyrics in music cause people to do things they wouldn't otherwise do. As Oderus Urungus once pointed out to Joan Rivers, someone who would emulate the behavior described in violent music is, "probably a very disturbed person in the first place." By the same token, people attracted to raunchy music just might be attracted to sex in the first place.

So I'd sure as hell like to know how that mechanism works, because a judge decided it wasn't true when Judas Priest was on trial, and unless I read something that explains otherwise, it still ain't true now.