People Are Still Having Sex

"People Are Still Having Sex" is a song written and composed by American musician LaTour and released as the first single from his self-titled debut album LaTour (1991).

Song content

The song features a monologue expounding the narrator's observations that "people everywhere" are "still having sex;" no matter how authority figures such as parents and counselors try, and despite the risk posed by AIDS, "nothing seems to stop them."

The song is built around an instrumental background and also includes a female voice speaking various lines. This voice also ends the song with the word "sex." An audio sample of a woman saying "Hello, lover" is taken from the 1987 horror film Evil Dead II.

The track was written about the initial AIDS scare in the late 1980s. At the time, various media outlets were sensationalizing the disease with the solution many advocacy groups touted was to just not have any intimate relations at all.

LaTour wrote the song based on the notion that pure abstinence was not the only answer and that something a bit more aggressive to educate the public needed to be done. The song rose to #1 on the Billboard dance charts and selective quotes have been used on the CDC's (Center for Disease Control) website.

Music video

The song features animation and features various animated backgrounds, some of which relate to the song's topic. The video was conceived by H-Gun, creator of early videos by Nine Inch Nails and Ministry. LaTour's live face is seen at the left of the screen during his speaking parts, while animation occupies the rest of the screen.

The video of the song was featured on the animated MTV series Beavis and Butt-head, on the episode "Temporary Insanity," which aired on December 10, 1994.

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