Sex in Christian Music

May your fountain be blessed,

and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.

A loving doe, a graceful deer —

    may her breasts satisfy you always,

    may you ever be intoxicated with her love.

PROVERBS 5:18-19

It's an incredibly sensitive and personal subject. Sex. The dreaded 3 letter word that most church's stray away from yet outside of our holy circle sex is as common as morning cup of coffee from your nearest convenience store (and honestly just as accessible). In music especially, sex makes up for a decent chunk of content. In 2009 psychology professor Dawn R. Hobbs in Evolutionary Psychology stated said out of 174 songs that made to billboard of that year a whopping 92% of those songs contained "reproductive messages." Some of those songs include "Right Round" by Flo Rida, "Best I Ever Had" by Drake, "Birthday Sex" by Jeremih, "Whatever You Like" by T.I. and probably most notably (for this blog anyway) "Every Girl" by Young Money. All these particular songs fall into the rap/hip hop genre but we all know sex is in every genre of music from Rock and R&B to Country & even EDM...except for Christian/Gospel music. Why?

There have been plenty of love songs from Christian artists but it's extremely rare thing when a bit of intimacy is mentioned. When it is, it's often met with criticism. But isn't sex a gift from God? It certainly is. A wonderful gift at that so it's surprising that believers don't ever take the pen to write about the beauty of intimacy between spouses. I do recall gospel artist Fred Hammond creating a deluxe album called "God, Love and Romance" which combines gospel centered music with love songs and it's a very good album. A classic if anything. More recently Rapper Sho Baraka paired up with Vanessa Hill to create "So Many Feelings" a musical venture into married life and all it's intricacies. What many have a called a bold step for Christian Music.

                                          Sho Baraka & Vanessa Hill's "So Many Feelings"

Now what I'm about to say is to intentionally to stir the pot of conversation. What I've noticed is those who chose to take the step into more "sexually explicit" content have been those of color. I have yet to see any white CCM/Gospel artists that have taken this bold step. If I'm wrong please correct me and point me to artists who have. I haven't heard TobyMac, Kim Walker, The Gaithers, Chris Tomlin or others talk about intimacy in their music. Love songs sure, but never anything sexual. Heck, not even too many Spanish Christian artists touch this subject. With all this being said I leave you with the final questions.

Should Christians write songs about sex? Or should we leave that to the mainstream?

Is it wrong for Christians to write songs on intimacy? If so, what does that make Song of Solomon?

Music can shift the atmosphere, so would intimate songs from Christian artists be different from mainstream artists? Why or Why Not

I'm open to dialogue and to having healthy conversations. No arguments or online screaming matches (you know, typing in all caps to suggest you're yelling  at me). I wanna be able to produce blogs that helps exercise conversation, the possibility of changing perspectives and ultimately build us—the believers—as better conversationalists.

God bless you family.

- William

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