Not a Required Element

Many people now-a-days will argue that the current artistic (music, theatre, movies, etc) industry is all about, and nothing without, sex. In my opinion, sex is not a required element in order to sell music, movies, theatre, and other artistic endeavors. This is a problem our society faces; people think that the artistic industry must include something sexual in order to sell. This thought causes artists to lack creativity. Instead of coming up with new ideas, it is like they are scared that their art will not sell if it does not include sex. The mindset of most of our society is that sex is a bad thing, but yet it sells all over the world. This is something that has to change, sex is not a bad thing yet it does not have to be an element that is classified as an essential for art to sell. I believe that it was more necessary a generation or two ago. Music in the past was more about the lyrics and obviously sex was a big topic in music. It still wasn’t an essential element back then but it was talked about more often. In today’s society, music such as house music, or techno, can be consisted of only beats and no vocals, yet it is still portrayed as sexual by some people. A generation or two ago, they couldn’t build these type of beats due to the lack of technology and music generating equipment.