Lets+Talk+About+Sex

 __AIDS IN POP CULTURE__ **MUSIC

"Let's Talk About Sex"** is the name of a controversial   hit  song   released by the  American    <span style="COLOR: #f50000; FONT-FAMILY: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif">hip-hop  <span style="COLOR: #f50000; FONT-FAMILY: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"> trio  <span style="COLOR: #f50000; FONT-FAMILY: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif">Salt-n-Pepa  <span style="COLOR: #f50000; FONT-FAMILY: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif">. <span style="COLOR: #f50000; FONT-FAMILY: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif">It was released as a <span style="COLOR: #f50000; FONT-FAMILY: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif">single  <span style="COLOR: #f50000; FONT-FAMILY: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"> from their Blacks' Magic  <span style="COLOR: #f50000; FONT-FAMILY: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif">album  <span style="COLOR: #f50000; FONT-FAMILY: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"> in the year  <span style="COLOR: #f50000; FONT-FAMILY: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif">1991  <span style="COLOR: #f50000; FONT-FAMILY: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif">. <span style="COLOR: #f50000; FONT-FAMILY: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif">The song, that was certified <span style="COLOR: #f50000; FONT-FAMILY: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif">gold  <span style="COLOR: #f50000; FONT-FAMILY: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"> by the   <span style="COLOR: #f50000; FONT-FAMILY: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif">RIAA  <span style="COLOR: #f50000; FONT-FAMILY: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"> and peaked at #13 at the Billboard  <span style="COLOR: #f50000; FONT-FAMILY: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif">Hot 100  <span style="COLOR: #f50000; FONT-FAMILY: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"> chart, talks about  <span style="COLOR: #f50000; FONT-FAMILY: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif">safe sex  <span style="COLOR: #f50000; FONT-FAMILY: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif">, the positive and negative sides of sex   <span style="COLOR: #f50000; FONT-FAMILY: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif">and the censorship that  <span style="COLOR: #f50000; FONT-FAMILY: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif">sex  <span style="COLOR: #f50000; FONT-FAMILY: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"> had around that time in American mainstream  <span style="COLOR: #f50000; FONT-FAMILY: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif">media  <span style="COLOR: #f50000; FONT-FAMILY: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif">. The song was later included in the  <span style="COLOR: #f50000; FONT-FAMILY: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif">trio's Greatest Hits (2000)  <span style="COLOR: #f50000; FONT-FAMILY: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"> album. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"> <span style="COLOR: #f50000; FONT-FAMILY: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"> **“Let’s Talk About AIDS”** was written in response to a request by Peter Jennings for the group to change the initial song so it discussed the AIDS    <span style="COLOR: #f50000; FONT-FAMILY: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif">  epidemic directly. It was premiered on an ABC television special, “In a New Light,” and was also used as a public service announcement by the   <span style="COLOR: #f50000; FONT-FAMILY: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif">  New York State Department of Health. Released as a charity single, proceeds went to AIDS charities and research. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"> To see the music video, <span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif">[|click here]  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif">.

<span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif">**TELEVISION**

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//And the Band Played On// is a 1993 Emmy Award-winning American made-for-television docudrama directed by Roger Spottiswoode. The teleplay by Arnold Schulman is based on the best-selling 1987 non-fiction book __And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic__ by Randy Shilts. The film tells the story of the discovery of the AIDS virus. The cover the early days in 1978 when numerous San Franciscan gay men began dying from unknown causes, to the identification of the HIV virus.

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