Is pop music sexualising our children?

The debate: music journalist Victoria Segal and feminist blogger Laurie Penny debate the effects of pop music on children, in the wake of record producer Mike Stock's comment that most R&B videos are like soft pornYes: Victoria SegalOf course pop music should be at least a little subversive, but if all it can do is channel the elderly libido of Hugh Hefner then it's time for a rethink. Nobody yearns for a Vera Drake society where sex is unmentionable and the only popular song is the equivalent o...

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