Will Sex ever be TABOO again?

Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte in Carmen Jones

As part of the hip hop generation, I hear all the concerns from older generations about what we're being exposed to through our music, movies and TV shows...often times I feel that its blown out of proportion ( seeing as how Rick James, Marvin Gaye,Barry White, Uncle Luke, etc...were around long before many of us were even thought of...in fact we may have gotten here with their aid) but mostly I can see where the concern comes from. I love music...especially the music that WE have created through hip hop (dont know you guys' definition but hip hop is now more than "rap" to me...its the whole movement...so im including singers in that title as well) and so I am always listening to many different genres and comparing the content and I must say we talk about sex...A LOT! We talk about the feeling sex gives, we talk about the best way to get sex from someone, we even talk about HOW to have sex...and as the age of music superstars continues to decline it worries me to think that they feel the need to continue with the hyper-sexualized content. As an adult I can appreciate some of the naughty lines that artists such as Trey Songz, Lil Wayne or Mario drop in their songs but as an educated woman with a little sister who I love dearly...I am worried.

I was looking through some of the artwork of old albums that I adored when I was younger and I must say they were clean...the artists who I looked up to were actually innocent...Monica, Brandy, Immature...there was no going online to see them in "naked pics" or "doing something strange for a little piece of change" on worldstarhiphop....and there was no hiding their music from my mother when she came in the room....

And then there were the other artists who introduced me to the music that I in fact DID have to hide from my mother when she came in the room...the TLC albums, Usher LP's...pretending to not know what Aaliyah meant by "getting down aint nothing but a thing" but the bottom line is I knew better...I knew that what they were selling to me was not okay...it was still pretty taboo...there were not full shows dedicated to who can sleep with a rich man the fastest...or who can sleep with as many strangers as possible in the course of a season...sex scenes were still being suggested by shots of people's feets sticking out of the bottom of blankets....and you had to have HBO to see anything that you would have to cover your eyes for...things are VASTLY different now...there are shows on primetime that would make HBO sweat i.e. Nip/Tuck...certain episodes of Grey's...recent episode of House...etc...etc...and dont even get me started on some of the ad campaigns using sex to sell everything from jeans to perfumes so what's next?

At this point I personally feel that we've become so desensitized to sex that there is no going back to a time when class was more important than....you get the point...it hurts me to think that real talent will start to fall second to how "sexy" you can be...I dont know if a show, album, film, etc...can sell without the ultra selling power that sex has and where does that leave artists? fans? the next generation? I dont have the answers...but hopefully the discussion can start through my questions