# Songs about "statutory rape" or underage love? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 12, 2005, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182 "2005-12-12T00:52:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/21 "2005-12-12T02:47:46Z")
I always got the impression that George Michael’s _Father Figure_ was more or less pedophilic. ---
**Author:** ![fifty-six](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@fifty-six](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fifty-six)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/22 "2005-12-12T02:50:45Z")
I can’t think of one right now off the top of my head, but if Alice Cooper sang less than five of them I would be suprised. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/23 "2005-12-12T02:51:26Z")
In and Out of Love by Bon Jovi ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/24 "2005-12-12T02:57:44Z")
_Hot Child In The City_, by Nick Gilder ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/25 "2005-12-12T02:59:51Z")
“Hot for Teacher” by Van Halen would somehow qualify I suppose. In some way. “She was too young to fall in love and I was too young to know” by John B. Sebastian. Icky and sappy at the same time, an achievement of sorts. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/26 "2005-12-12T03:13:36Z")
Ted Nugent’s _Jailbait_ (I don’t care if you’re just thirteen …) Spinal Tap’s _Tonight I’m Gonna Rock You Tonight_ (You’re sweet, but you’re just four feet/and you still got your baby teeth/You’re too young, and I’m too well hung, but tonight I’m gonna rock ya …) Manowar’s _Fast Taker_ (Only sixteen - a woman not a girl/old enough for a trip around the world …) ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/27 "2005-12-12T03:23:17Z")
Not in English, but “Criminel” by Garou. _Mais méfiez-vous de la femme-enfant Méfiez-vous de ses quatorze ans À cause d’elle On m’appelle criminel_ (crap me-translation: But don’t trust the woman-child/don’t trust her fourteen years/because of her/they call me “criminal”) ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/28 "2005-12-12T03:34:50Z")
The Infant Kiss, by Kate Bush ---
**Author:** ![Lambo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lambo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lambo)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/29 "2005-12-12T03:40:42Z")
“Danger”, by Steve Goodman. “Danger, this is about a 14 year old girl and her 19 year old boyfriend.” ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/30 "2005-12-12T03:51:00Z")
**Lets Go** by the Cars. This is another one that’s cool because our narrator respects the girl’s boundaries. …And she won’t give up 'cause she’s seventeen… …And when I ask her before, she said she’s holding out She’s a frozen fire She’s my one desire And I don’t want to hold her down Don’t want to break her crown When she says, let’s go… ---
**Author:** ![yoyodyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a9a28c/32.png) [@yoyodyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyodyne)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/31 "2005-12-12T04:04:37Z")
**It’s Money That I love** by Randy Newman _They say that’s money Can’t buy love in this world But it’ll get you a half-pound of cocaine And a sixteen-year old girl And a great big long limousine On a hot September night Now that may not be love But it is all right_ ---
**Author:** ![wonderlust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonderlust/32/7237_2.png) [@wonderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderlust)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/32 "2005-12-12T04:05:14Z")
“Brown Shoes Don’t Make It”, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention ("…she’s only 13 but she knows how to nasty") “Good Morning Little Schoolgirl”, performed by everyone ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/33 "2005-12-12T04:15:23Z")
Bow Wow Wow had the song “Louis Quatorze” in which lead singer Annabella Lwin (who actually was about that age) sang about being fourteen years old when Louis made love to her. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/34 "2005-12-12T04:30:22Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > “Aqualung” by Jethro Tull Also “Cross-Eyed Mary,” by Jethro Tull. How about “Tenderness on the Block” by Warren Zevon? ---
**Author:** ![by-tor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/by-tor/32/266_2.png) [@by-tor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/by-tor)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/35 "2005-12-12T04:33:48Z")
“How Many More Times” by Led Zeppelin. Maybe “Little Lover” by AC/DC. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/36 "2005-12-12T05:35:37Z")
Oh! I forgot _Edge of the World_ by Faith No More: “It’s not the point that I’m 40 years older” I suppose you could make a case for _Janie’s Got a Gun_ by Aerosmith: “He jacked a little-bitty baby” ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/37 "2005-12-12T05:53:14Z")
[http://karpov.hole.ru/songs/trad\_14.htm](http://karpov.hole.ru/songs/trad_14.htm) Also, Stacey’s Mom by Fountains of Wayne. Sorta. ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/38 "2005-12-12T07:44:49Z")
> [@fifty-six](#): > > I can’t think of one right now off the top of my head, but if Alice Cooper sang less than five of them I would be suprised. Cite?! I don’t think so! :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Macphisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Ms\_Macphisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Macphisto)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/39 "2005-12-12T08:32:12Z")
Travis, _U16 Girls_: … but when I called her number her mother’s on the line sayin’ you’ve no business as God’s my witness with a child as young as mine… ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/40 "2005-12-12T09:09:45Z")
> [@Dung Beetle](#): > > The Infant Kiss, by Kate Bush [Seconded !](http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/The-infant-kiss-lyrics-Kate-Bush/E9E7D0A7F3CE36C9482569A0002F3478) > [@](#): > > What is this? > An infant kiss > That sends my body tingling? > I’ve never fallen for > A little boy before. > No control. > > Just a kid and just at school. > Back home they’d call me dirty. > His little hand is on my heart. > He’s got me where it hurts me. > Knock, knock. Who’s there in this baby? > You know how to work me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182.md?page=3)