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A German heavy metal band popular with teenagers has caused outrage with the video clip to their latest single showing the musicians taking part in graphic hardcore pornography.
The video for Rammstein's song "Pussy" shows the band members engaging in a variety of sexual acts with women, interspersed with shots of the group performing and waving the German flag.
While the band have not shown the video on their website, they link to a pornographic site where the clip can be watched.
Aside from a warning of "nudity and sex scenes" on the webpage, there is no control to prevent teenagers — who make up a large portion of Rammstein's audience — from viewing the video.
Adolescent psychologist Michael Carr-Gregg said there was little difference between the video and the usual pornography available on the internet.
"It highlights the need for parents to do three things: one is to make sure kids have the computers in a public place, have an online filter, and have parents monitor what their kids do online," he said.
"The best monitoring of all is shoulder-surfing, so regularly checking what kids are looking at online.
But heavy metal and sex have always gone hand in hand, according to QUT professor and author of The Porn Report Alan McKee.
"It's explicit pornography but it's a generic hybrid, so it's pornography but also a music video," he said.
"It would be X-rated if it were released on DVD in Australia."
Professor McKee said the video was "juvenile, lowbrow and obsessed with sex, but that's not a bad thing".
"Heavy metal has always been about sex and if you go back to the '70s with Black Sabbath, there was outrage because their songs are about sex," he said.
"It's not the music that's making adolescent men think about sex — it's adolescent men thinking abot sex making heavy metal popular."
The clip is directed by Swedish filmmaker Jonas Akerlund, who has made videos for hit songs like "Beautiful Day" by U2, "Paparazzi" by Lady Gaga and "Beautiful" by Christina Aguilera.
Akerlund had previously attracted controversy for the video he made for The Prodigy song "Smack My Bitch Up" with allegations it promoted violence against women.
Rammstein's song "Amerika" reached the position of 46 in youth radio station Triple J's Hottest 100 for 2004.
