In many cases now, it goes even further, wallowing in overt evil. Gangster rap, now a favorite of white suburban teenagers, glamorizes rape, drugs, and murdering police officers. Death metal spins dark fantasies of vampirism, sadistic sex, and demon worship. Marilyn Manson sings songs about kids murdering parents. Obviously, few of the fans of Marilyn Manson actually carry out what they are listening to.
Most listeners are content to enjoy such degradations in the privacy of their imaginations.
Even though they never act them out, the spiritual impact remains. A very few are not content with the vicarious experience of evil, but want to play it out in the real world. Members of the Trenchcoat Mafia were fond of hard-core death metal music, the kind with Nazi imagery. They played the bloody video game Doom and watched the critically acclaimed motion picture Natural Born Killers over and over again. Certainly, there are many fans of these works of art who have never killed any of their classmates.