Like many parents of my generation， I grew up<br >listening to rock music and loving it， watching<br >television and being entertained by it. I still enjoy<br >both. But something has happened since the days of<br >"Twist and Shout" and "I Love Lucy."<br > This is a book about the kinds of violent and<br >explicit messages our children are receiving through<br >the media and what we as parents can do about it.<br > I decided to get involved because I began to see the<br >kinds of record lyrics that my children were being<br >exposed to. It shocked me and made me angry. I<br >started looking deeper into the problem， and became<br >even more concerned.<br > A small but immensely successful minority of<br >performers have pioneered the "porn rock" phenom-<br >enon. A Judas Priest song about oral sex at gunpoint<br >sold two million copies. So did M6tley Crtie s album<br >Shout at the Devil， with lyrics like: "Not a woman，<br >but a whore/I can taste the hate/Well， now I m killing<br >you/Watch your face turning blue.<br ><br >