They also apply to baroque music, while we're at it. And I'm not labeling all barbershop as masturbatory music--it's just that it's one of the genres that seems to encourage it.
The question is "What's so wrong about Barbershop?"...I attempted to suggest a possible answer. What's wrong with chili peppers is that they can burn your tongue--that doesn't mean that I'm opposed to chili peppers.

And Mike--what do you mean "eminent a scholar "? I plead not guilty to both counts.