Should We Be Limiting Explicit Lyrics In Music?

I remember the first time I ever bought a CD on my own. I got a gift certificate to the mall for Christmas one year, and so into the CD store I went with visions of best sellers dancing in my head. After I made my selections, two of the more popular artists among young people, I danced merrily home, eager to listen to my new acquisitions. However, imagine my horror when upon seeing my …

…are doing. True, most young children are not mature enough to listen to that kind of violent music, their minds are even yet too impressionable. However, it is up to the discernment of the parents to decide that, not the entertainment industry. As once said W. B. Yeats, an Irish poet, to the Irish Senate on a bill of censorship: "I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind."