Sexo Media Rock Y Roll. Ingles

Sex, Media, and Rock n’ Roll

Music is one of the oldest and most exciting forms of artistic expression; it can easily define a culture. When combined with the power of communication of the media,music can influence our lives to a great extent. In the last sixty years, this art has been responsible for broadening society’s perception in one of the most tabooed aspect of our lives: sex.
The1950s was a decade characterized by a repressive society towards the subject of sex in America. There existed an attitude of fear and rejection concerning premarital sex, homosexual behavior, and thefree expression of sexuality, because of how it was seen in that time. Society saw these acts as threats to their conservative values; they were considered morally incorrect. The best example ofconservative America was the Social Hygiene Movement, a sex education program, which relied on fear as a way of communication and encouraged students to avoid any kind of sexual activity until marriage.
Thewhole concept started to deteriorate with the publication of two books that exposed the reality about human sexuality, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and the later controversial SexualBehavior in the Human Female (1953), both written by the American Biologist, Dr. Alfred Kinsey. Both books showed, based on scientific research, the previously mentioned acts that society repressed aspart of the human behavior. They stated how it was natural to both, men and women, to have sexual desires and needs, and how homosexual behavior was not a disease, contrary to the current dogma. This waspowered by the abrasive success of a magazine called Playboy, founded in 1953 by Hugh Hefner. Although this magazine is known for its images exposing female nudity, what was considered to bedemeaning and “pornographic”, its purpose has been to portray a lifestyle that as Hefner himself said “tried to associate sex with beauty and something that made a person feel good about the subject”.
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