Denise
if you have low self- esteam then watching these videos can make a girls self image feel low, it comes across that if you don't meet the criteria of girls in videos you set out to be just like them.

natalie n samantha
watchin rap video make teenagers feel insucure about there body image. they feel as if they have to look as good as the women they see in the rap videos.

nicole- durty angel
y would rap videos make u act different??? u watch da video coz u lyk da musik!!! not coz u wanna b da gurlz!! sum ov dem gurlz look nasty n most ov dem ave no respect 4 dem selves if dey need 2 take dere clothes off 2 look gud!!! certain ppl have different thingz dey wanna do if dey wanna do dat let um coz dey jus makin dem selves look cheap!!!

gem
i think it could influence women in some ways to go out looking sexy and wanting to sleep with other men. Women usually want to be thin so looking at all these women practically naked will bring some women down. Overall i do not think it would affect manyb women as most can think for themselves.

Marquita
How thick can you get? Videos do NOT make you act a certain way!! No girl will sleep with a guy if she doesn't want to!! I am a female hip-hop fan and let me tell you that no way would I act like them. I mean come on the researchers are just trying to make teenagers sould dumb so they can censor the stuff we like and ALSO it affects the BOYS the most take a look around!!

Neil
I disagree. You can research as much as you'd like, it's dependant on the person and their mentality. You could watch Coronation Street and still decide to go and rob an old aged pensioner.

Emily
I understand there can be other factors, but I definitely think if you watch something enough you want to to become it and you start to mimick it, sometimes even subconciously. This definitely happens in boys as well as girls, but in this instance they just tested girls.

If they watch 21 hours a week, then after a while they will become more prone to act like it, but who's to say that if they spent 21 hours hanging out with friends who watched those music videos that you wouldn't start acting like your friends?

lily
well.... i say your reasearch is wrong 500 African American girls excuse me but theres like other girls in the world like chinese british etc... did you follow them??? you cant base it on a certain group of girls because i watch rap videos but it doesnt affect me at all, im a mature girl for my age, and im 14 years old, it doesnt affect us may be to some but not all its jst not right.

nicole
i dont think it affects women at all. mostly it will affect men to go out n get laid because there soo "up for it" after watchin these videos

emma
wot the? how can hip hop videos make a girls self image go down? i think it could if people were that unhappy with themselves, but ya know -it happens

Shania
Can dis world get ne dumber!?! Y do ppl insist on wastin dere tym wid such foolishness? Personally seein buttaz gyals take their clothes off 4 cheap pay on videos such as R Kelly's Fiesta, N.E.R.D's lapdance, doesnt appeal 2 me. Lyk da ova 2 say, its not just da media dat influence gyals, but r upbringin & freindship groups. I actually find it pathetic dat ppl cum 2 suc h conclusions...but then again dis iz in America.....home 2 a population who cant fink independently, therefore must follow wot dey c on tv kmt. xXx

helen
as a 14 yr old i dont think that watching RAP videos is turning youngsters violent or anything. but in some videos i do agree there are images that are not very sensible, because even young children like the artists songs and there are some cases of nudity and violence ie guns

laura
i dont think it has anything to do with rap videos infact people like snoop dogg and tupac are a good example of what you can do with your life and that the sky is the limit even if you do come from the hood.also we no the diffrence between right and wrong therefore it has nothing to do with videos.

heather
i think that is so true, because rap and dirty hip-hop is encouraging teens to be sexy and to have sex

emma
First of all i don't agree to the fact that they tested only on African American women. I personaly found that racist. Secondly it might affect a girlz behavior but that doesn't mean that boys aren't affected. To be honest i think boys are affected more because they will think that to have a girlfriend like that they have to have a good body and money. Everything is affecting young people's minds these days and rap videos are not the only thing promoting sex. Sex sells and everybody knows that so i don't blame them.

Bex c
I don't think pop or R&B or any other music videos have any effect on us as teenagers because not all of the videos are all bad and a bad influence some of the videos infact give us a positive thought on life and give us some allabyes on how to cope with the day 2 day problems including love! we need the videos

Leena
Music videos dont tell kids to go be a stripper and do bad things, kids make that choice and sometimes stress of doing bad things comes from friends and pressure. people just need a reason to point a finger at.

Kati Blake
Seeing a semi naked woman with a perfect body wriggle round top stars on a music video doesnt have a direct impact on us girls, but it has a mental one. Everyone searches for the perfect life and these girls seem to have it, so some girls may take their actions literally and sleep around searching for this life that these rappers show.

I dont think stopping the videos would help though, because naked women are everywhere. Look at the current dove advert, it shows the insecurities modern women face.....

YAS
i do not think that hip-hop videos influence women, people are listenin to the music and not dreamin about the hoochie with the big bum, if girls want a to be ghetto faboulous then its nothing to do with hip-hop videos its what they see in everyday life.

stacey
of course it's possible for girls to want to follow that sort of lifestyle as it looks amazing but what those girls dont realise is that money doesnt buy happiness. you cant criticize girls for becoming hooked on rap videos, wouldn't it be worse if they were hooked on other things. i believe people have a right to choose how they live, what they watch and what they wear. these videos don't influence girls to live that lifestyle. girls will grow out of this after a while. a girl cant be blamed for being addicted to tv...

nakiesha
i love this website and everything but i think what your saying is racist because that is how us black JAMACIAN people dance and do. we aint dirty,just sexually active. how we dance and hiw we rap. thats like me saying goths talk about death, suicide and hanging themselves. black music is about girls and that not giving us a bad name, its expressing love and sexual activity. ALL girls like to show off their bodies even white, african, indian, chinese,etc. its no just black people. take this quote to consideration.

Nikki
We live in an image conscious society whereby the way we look dictates & plays a major part in things. If the images that you see on a regular basis are of voluptous (big batty & breasts), fair skinned, long hair females - gyrating & whining & you are constantly viewing these images.

As an impressionable person you may find yourself comparing & thinking this is the image to strive for & to achieve the lifestyle that's being projected you have to sexualise yourself. It's naive not to think that the media doesn't influence people. If you're young, impressionable & do not have any other positive images around you- you're going to feed on what you see, read & listen to.

The majority of videos just sexualise women & to an impressionable person they may think this is the way to conduct yourself. Now if I had a young daughter under the age of 12 - I wouldn't want her to be watching these images on a regular basis - as they do carry a negative image.

Ryze
Stupid, anti-rap garbage. OBVIOUSLY, if a girl is watching 21 hours worth of rap videos a week (average 3 HOURS PER DAY of just rap), then she's more likely to already be the type of girl that finds the images on show appealing. She can probably relate to them in one way or another. So obviously, the girl that never or rarely has sex is likely to be disinterested in watching images of scantily clad women, who may be models or erotic dancers. So obviously, they'd watch nowhere near 21 hours of rap videos, so obviously this is going to skew the statistics. I hate when these people use ridiculous stats to try to impose THEIR OPINION on the population.

Astrid
Most hip hop videos just portray women in a sexual way and (apart from female performers) this is the only image shown to female hip hop fans. As most of the time the girls are surrounded by dripping diamonds and bling bling, this lifestyle can be appealing to girls and they think the way to get it is by acting like the girls in the videos.

Im not saying that all girls act like this and are sucked in but even I want more money, a bigger bum and a fit boyfriend when I watch hip hop videos. Its hard not to be sucked into the glamour lifestyle and attention that seems to be on offer by acting in a sexual way.

However... saying this... if a girl is watching 21 hours of TV a week she needs to get a job and stop being so lazy. Other factors such as upbringing probably have an influence on how a girl acts as well.

Neil Jayaratne
I mean how silly can researchers get, so this test was taken on 500 girls for 21 hours a week on what sort of timescale? Granted the people we hang out with, the surroundings we are in and the things we listen to and watch can in a small way influence us, but i refuse to believe that hip-hop videos infuence women that much to the point they feel to go out and sleep with loads of guys. Im a guy and i know women are smarter then us.... if anything it would affect men more.