[defrost]

I've always been fond of that 1920s foxtrot classic that celebrated stripping down past clothing to enter into a vertical expression of a horizontal desire, Tain't No Sin

( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq69ioCrX9U - George Olsen and his Music ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9bW4qauva8 - Lee Morse )

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (is all my brain and body need) by Ian Dury was originally released as a Stiff Records single on 26 August 1977.

( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfp8xrNAS6I it has a nice piano break )

Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine by by James Brown with Bobby Byrd backing was released in 1970.

( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VDzezv7atU .. oh, those crazy russians )

Roll that forward 30 years ... TISM- Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me the only single off The White Albun (2004).

( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENnAa7rqtBM .. it's all cute rabbits animated by a future Walt Disney Studios animation director )

Hardly The Decline & Fall ...

[meitham]

I agree there were always be examples like that, but my point is kids hardly had any exposure to these, whereas kids feel entitled to listen to explicit music nowadays and when you try as a parent to enforce rules everyone else seem to say "it's okay, all kids do that", it's never okay to let kids watch or listen to these explicit Nicky Minaj or Dojo Cat songs, and I will always speak against it.

[defrost]

When I was a kid, long long ago, we watched stallions put to mares, bulls to cows, and rams tupping ewes .. we grew up generally bemused by sexuality and made a lot of explicit sexual jokes in puberty.

I'm pretty sure the Athenians and those in the Roman Republic did also .. Pēdīcābo ego vōs et irrumābō has it over Nicky Minaj in several ways, it just lacks a music video.

Explicitly vulgar latin I also read as a teen.

The songs I listed, with the exception of TISM, I heard as a young teen - kids view the world and make their own minds up, Dojo Cat will be kind of lame to the next generation if not already.

Relax (1983) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yem_iEHiyJ0

[eesmith]

Just like parents said in the 1980s.

Just like parents said in the 1950s.

Wait until you find out what Jelly Roll Morton's nickname means, acquired when he was a fourteen year old piano player in a brothel, back around 1904.