by RubyLane

Created on: August 22, 2009

How did we get to this point where Akon's latest single Smack That has these lyrics?

And possibly bend you over look back and watch me

[Chorus (2X):]

Smack that all on the floor

Smack that give me some more

Smack that 'till you get sore, Smack that oh-oh!

I personally think its catchy and raunchy but what happened between ABBA's Dancing Queen and this? Have we revolutionized, become more decadent thus making the latest hits so sexually blatant or is it because we have tried every minutia of ways to pleasure ourselves that we forget the art of less is more? Or have we really crossed the line?

Crossing the line is perhaps a reflection of our society reaching the nadar of decadence, predominant during the Roman Empire. Is that where we are heading? In my generation spanning just after the war years austerity, simplicity with prudish moral earnestness was the order of the day. God fearing society, our code of conduct was determined by the respected leaders of society.

When religion failed us, leaders failed us, divorced parents failed us, we decided to take our future into our own hands. The 60's love-ins, make love not war, flower children were a product of the revolutionary Pill. Wow, it was the most defining moment for women not only in this decade but for all times. We were going to say to the world, we are sexual beings, life will be on our terms and we were determined to enjoy. And we did. Germain Greer, Helen Gurley Brown opened pandora's box and all hell broke lose.

The 70's became the real swinging seventies where couples swapped their car keys for greater adventures. The eighties heightened it by group sex, by the time the nineties came around, our little foray into threesomes, foursomes gave us a taste of dabbling with our own gender. Whoopie, some found it the best thing since sliced bread. Some pontificated whether its nature versus nuture - using any excuse to help them over the twinge of right over wrong but it all comes down to crossing the line

Katy Perry sings it with her hit song I Kissed a Girl . and if you don't know it, I'll just give you the chorus:

I kissed a girl and I liked it

The taste of her cherry chap stick

I kissed a girl just to try it

I hope my boyfriend don't mind it

It felt so wrong

It felt so right

Don't mean I'm in love tonight

I kissed a girl and I liked it

I liked it,

Even if you're straight like me Katy Perry keeps me wondering?

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