A new study conducted by examining the best-selling songs of 2009 discovered that Americans like sex references in their music. Dawn R. Hobbs, psychology professor at the State University of New York and lead author of the study in Evolutionary Psychology said, “Approximately 92% of the 174 songs that made it into the Billboard Top 10 in 2009 contained reproductive messages.” The survey of songs checked for 18 sexual references, including “infidelity” and “mate guarding.” The top-selling songs had “an average of 10.49 sex-related phrases per song.” Hobbs adds that the trend goes back to the “opera and arts songs dating back hundreds of years.”
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
American Like A Little Sex In Their Songs
A new study conducted by examining the best-selling songs of 2009 discovered that Americans like sex references in their music. Dawn R. Hobbs, psychology professor at the State University of New York and lead author of the study in Evolutionary Psychology said, “Approximately 92% of the 174 songs that made it into the Billboard Top 10 in 2009 contained reproductive messages.” The survey of songs checked for 18 sexual references, including “infidelity” and “mate guarding.” The top-selling songs had “an average of 10.49 sex-related phrases per song.” Hobbs adds that the trend goes back to the “opera and arts songs dating back hundreds of years.”
