What's next? Full sex sounds on the air?

Driving up to the Twin Cities on Saturday, I heard a song on the radio that I hadn't heard for a while.

But let's see if you can fill in the blank on these lyrics:

"I don't want
Anybody else.
When I think about you
I ______ ______."

Remember that?

I do. And I remember that video. The came to us from The Divinyls, a band that didn't have much to say after that. But it didn't have to. It's mark had been made. It was responsible for pushing the envelope a little bit more for what's acceptable on mainstream radio.

(Now, gangsta rap fans just calm down. I'm aware of how raw it all got throughout the days of N.W.A. and Ice Cube and Easy E. I've read the lyrics. I understand there was a falling out at one point, and that certain lyrics made threats involving broomsticks and Vaseline and ... Well, it was just not nice.)

Anyway, as I listened to this song, it struck me how harmless it seems now. A song that, in 1991, would have made me turn the volume down if my mother was in the room, would be considered a garden variety song with sexual references.

Have you heard some of the crap on the radio today?

Here's a little sampling from our good friend Usher, a fine looking fellow who seems articulate:

"Honey got a booty like pow, pow, powHoney got some boobies like wow, oh wow."

Not to be outdone, here's our good friend Bruno Mars:

"Tomorrow I'll wake up, do some P90XMeet a really nice girl, have some really nice sexAnd she's gonna scream out: 'This is Great' (Oh my God, this is great)."

Any Katy Perry fans out there? If you are, you're no doubt familiar with this:

"Last Friday nightWe went streaking in the parkSkinny dipping in the darkThen had a ménage à trois."

There are others. And I haven't even touched the Kesha catalog.

Imagine driving the kids to school and, just before little Billy heads into Mrs. Nelson's kindergarten room, he hears Mr. Mars talking about having some "really nice sex." Don't get me wrong; I'm happy for Bruno. And  I'm not decrying this situation. I'm not complaining. I'm just saying: we've come a long way from the Divinyls' lead singer talking about touching herself.

So, as I pondered this issue in the car, I thought to myself: How long will it be until we've got straight up sex sounds coming out of our car stereo? It's been hinted at for years, of course. Remember Duran Duran's "Hungry Like the Wolf"? Those primal female sounds as the chorus carries the song to fade out? Neat how they tucked it in like that, with the moaning getting louder with each utterance, and it came at the end of the song, long after persnickety ears had stopped listening.

My prediction is this: within 24 months, modern radio-play artists -- the ones you hear locally on Z99 or KDOG -- will have songs that leave even less to the imagination than they do now. Mark my works. It's the natural evolution of things.

How do you guys feel about the sexification of, well, everything? Are you OK with not being able to watch certain shows without having to sit through an ad for Trojan condoms?

Please understand, I'm not complaining. I'm honestly just curious what people think.