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Originally Posted by escorpio
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The formation of the PMRC began in 1984, when Tipper Gore was shocked when listening (along with her daughter Karenna) to Prince's song "Darling Nikki". The song, which was on the soundtrack of Purple Rain, contained graphic references to sex and masturbation:
I knew a girl named Nikki
I guess you could say she was a sex fiend
I met her in a hotel lobby
Masturbating with a magazine
Gore watched other rock music videos and concluded that "The images frightened my children, they frightened me! The graphic sex and the violence were too much for us to handle." Susan Baker also became alarmed after hearing her 7-year-old daughter singing along with Madonna songs that Baker considered "suggestive". Gore and Baker, along with Howar and Nevius, formed the PMRC in May 1985.
The PMRC claimed that the change in rock music was attributable to the decay of the nuclear family in America. Families, according to Gore, are "haven[s] of moral stability" which protect children from outside influences. Gore said that without the family structure, rock music was "infecting the youth of the world with messages they cannot handle."
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And the list goes on