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Sex sells
In America today it is very difficult to go anywhere without encountering America's number one best seller. I'm not talking about the newest Harry Potter book, or latest Stephen King thriller either; I'm talking about sex. Music, magazines, and television are prime examples of sex being used negatively to sell, or market products.
The music industry, although the least blatant of the three examples, uses sex as a way to market a great deal of its many superstars. If you have ever watched MTV's: TRL, or BET's: 106th and Park, then you know how true the phrase, "video killed the radio star is". Often times I find it difficult to concentrate on the lyrical content of the songs on TV because of the dozens of scantily clad women running around in the background, "ant girl would want to be her", says Joyce Garity. This phenomenon is not limited to only the extras in the music videos anymore. Teen sensations such as *Nsync and the Backstreet Boys are perfect examples.......

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