The bodies bounce, twist and grind as the bass line bumps and the dance floor quakes.

The room is filled with a lingering stench of alcohol and musty sweat.

The patrons don’t miss a beat as the speakers bellow the explicit demeaning lyrics “Hey, you’re a crazy bitch, but .”

Some people can relate to Buckcherry‘s obscene lyrics, but most often people can relate more to the feel good scene that is associated with the song.

The sexual innuendos running rapid throughout the song’s entirety might lead some to believe that sex is the only thing on Buckcherry’s mind.

Now more than ever, sex is used to sell the products that are loved, but sex has gone hand in hand with music prior to the days of classical artists.

“Music touches the soul, and it is so correlated with our emotions and physical desires that it is definitely correlated with sex,” said Kathreen Ryan, general musical education professor. “Beethoven was said to have many lovers. Mozart messed around quite a bit. In fact, that is probably why he didn’t have any money. You can go all the way back in history and see where women were attracted to men that were producing music.”

This attraction has lead to something deeper than just a simple crush.

Many believed that the ’60s and ’70s were the world’s most overtly sexual times in history.

With the hippie movement and a plethora of new drugs fueling the adolescents, it is easy to look back and understand where this thought stemmed from. So what happened from then to now?

“Lyrics today go overboard,” Ryan said. “They take the pleasure out of the subtleness. The hint is no longer there. I think it kind of cheapens the music. In a way, I think it is the artist’s way of showing you their insecurities. They don’t think their music is a strong enough product so they have to be more promiscuous, and they have to prove themselves as sexy.”

The artists, in these cases, are obviously at some fault, but a portion of the fault lies within the music industry as a whole.

Record labels are forcing young artists to sing seductive lyrics that correlate to a sultry body image.

“If you are in music just to get signed, then you are in music for the wrong reasons,” said Sean Walker, lead vocalist for The Staff Blues Band. “Certainly songs are sometimes sexual just to be sexual, and all genres have these, but writing a sexual song just to get signed is wrong. I think that a change in the style of a band should be a natural change and not something just to get a hit single.”

Although all genres are facing more raw sexuality everyday, one genre has been leading the pack: rap.

Rap or hip-hop is a musical genre that was born in the streets.

The streets breed vulgar innuendos and violence, so it was only natural that this would become apparent in the music.

Does this mean the rapper makes the music or does the music make the rapper?

“I have a girlfriend and a sister, so I choose not to rap about those (vulgar and sexual) things,” said Ian Winston, locally known as rapper I2K. “If I had a daughter, I wouldn’t want her to be treated that way. To show your true creativity, you want to be an MC that bases your rhymes off things happening in the world. Not just sex. Sex does sell; I’d just rather listen to something a little more diverse in style.”

The foundations of sex in music stem so far back that it would be near impossible to reverse the damage that sex has brought to the quality of music, but it still remains hopeful.

“Right now were in the industry’s hands,” Ryan said. “It is going to take a group like The Beatles (to break the mold). It won’t matter what the music industry is pushing for. It will take a group that strong, that talented and with that much guts to say, ‘We have a following, and let’s go with it.'”