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There Is A Subject - There Is A Research That Says A Man Thinks About Sex Every 12 Seconds. And So When An Artist Expresses Something That's Sexual In Music It Is A Reflection Of Our Reality. If We Want That Reality Changed, Then We Have To Do Things That Affect The Core.

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There Is A Subject - There Is A Research That Says A Man Thinks About Sex Every 12 Seconds. And So When An Artist Expresses Something That's Sexual In Music It Is A Reflection Of Our Reality. If We Want That Reality Changed, Then We Have To Do Things That Affect The Core.

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