It is extremely unusual that I agree with Susie O'Brien and she seems just as startled that she would agree with "reactionary Right-wing columnists". However, when events like the Forever Young Festival occur both sides can align. Here is how Susie O'Brien describes the event:

Lyrics about bondage have no place at any underage dance party
Susie O'Brien, 29th March 2011

"How do you feel about bondage? If you are an adult, I don't care what your answer is.

Tie yourself up. Knock yourself out. Whatever gets you there is fine by me.

But it's not OK for children. Children shouldn't even know about that stuff.

And yet, a kids-only music event, Forever Young Festival 2011, to be held in Melbourne in three weeks, is headlining an artist whose hit song describes bondage in graphic detail. In fact, Wynter Gordon's Dirty Talk track appears to endorse it, along with promiscuity, violence and masturbation.....

Our children are immersed in a culture that sees music with suggestive, outrageous, pornographic lyrics as not only acceptable, but totally normal.

Take some of these lines from Dirty Talk, and work out for yourself whether it's something you'd want your year 8 student listening to: "Kitten heels, lingerie, pantyhose, foreplay, Legs up, on the bar, In the back of your car/ Latex, champagne, bubble bath, whipped cream, Cherry pop tactic/ Can you make me scream."

And this: "Blindfold, feather bed, Tickle me, slippery, G spot, nasty pose/ In a video, love machine, by myself/ Climax, hot wax, S&M on the floor, I like it hardcore."

Now I am not against adults having a good time. In fact, I am whole-heartedly for it and some of these suggestions are probably even on the to-do list of many married mothers.

We all know sex sells. But who do we want sex sold to? Certainly not to our kids.

Does anyone think that these are the sort of lyrics we want our kids to be humming on the way to school?...."

Click here to go to the full editorial in the Herald Sun.