I don't think she's promoting sex, i still think the song is kinda more about love, with sex included aha. Yet often we do anyway, because of the way we make each other feel, and all that hormone stuff doolb specified above, (: example: "the way you turn me on, I can't sleep". And if you're truly in love you don't really need to have sex anyway, I mean, it won't make or break the relationship, and it won't be at all regrettable. See to me its pretty simple, all teenagers really want to do is fall in love, (: I mean, we just want to be accepted, and how much more accepted can you be by a person than if they're in love with you and you're in love with them? And they love you for exactly who you are, (: example: "You think I'm pretty, without any makeup on". Honestly, I think the song is about being in love, and that line kinda just refers to how sex (at least more commonly thesedays) really is a pretty prominent part that goes along with the whole being in love thing. Haha well I'm a teenager and honestly I didn't really pick up on the whole "teenage dream" meaning sex until I read it, I mean, I understood the "let's go all the way tonight" part to mean sex, but i thought that was kinda the only reference.
I know we live in the world of free speech but sometimes silence is better and sometimes its not, unfortunately most people have their ideas on when to talk and when to shut up mixed up. I mean most teenagers would not get the references made in songs if some adult didn't pick up on it somewhere and spell it out. Songs like this are not the problem, however, people who try to treat sexual issues as though they are wrong or taboo (or think that songs or the media in general can influence a child so much that it would cause them to do something they know they shouldn't) are definitely part of the problem not the solution. Teenagers are really a world unto themselves and if you raised your child with the knowledge of right and wrong before they hit puberty there shouldn't be a huge problem for them in deciphering it after they hit puberty. What we as adults seem to forget is that though we can suggest what our children can and can not do we can not prevent them from doing it entirely.
If you do not think teenagers should be having sex then you discuss it let them no the precautions and repercussions of having it. Now that aside I do not think it is a big deal that we talk about having sex promoting it or preaching against it we live in a pretty free civilized world its 2010 for gods sake. Its a natural, biological side effect of maturing through puberty everyone goes through puberty in different ways but it all involves a lot of hormones and the FACT that a person is now able to produce the what is necessary to have a child. On top of that I remember being a teenager and that was pretty much all that was on my mind. While I do not think that teenagers should be having random sex nor do I even think that they are clear headed enough to think clearly and obtusely about whether or not to have sex they definitely seem to keep having it. You, make, me feel like I'm living a, teenage, dreamīe your teenage dream tonight (tonight, tonight, tonight)
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