“[R]OCK music has one appeal only, a barbaric appeal, to sexual desire — not love … but sexual desire undeveloped and untutored … rock gives children, on a silver plate, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up … Young people know that rock has the beat of sexual intercourse … Never was there such an art form directed so exclusively to children… The words implicitly and explicitly describe bodily acts that satisfy sexual desire and treat them as its only natural and routine culmination for children who do not yet have the slightest imagination of love, marriage or family. This has a much more powerful effect than does pornography on youngsters, who have no need to watch others do grossly what they can so easily do themselves. Voyeurism is for the old perverts; active sexual relations are for the young. All they need is encouragement.”

 — Allan Bloom, Closing of the American Mind, pp. 73-74 [quoted here]

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