Is Queen Hurting Our Children?

The band, not the dead monarch lady

I’m not telling you my exact age — you would need to buy me a drink first, and I don’t drink anymore — but I’m safely snuggled within Generation X. As of the last census, there were 65.2 million of us in America. That’s a lot! We came of age in the 1970s and ‘80s, a time of sweeping societal change we didn’t really understand. Hell, I still don’t.

The sexual revolution was one of those sweeping changes. Things were a lot different when I was a kid than they were in my parents’ generation. In less than a quarter-century, a society that had once reeled in disgust from the pelvic gyrations of Elvis Presley didn’t even blink at songs like this: