Here's a crash course on record players for the layman:
From the 1870s to the 1980s the way you listened to music was the phonograph, or record player. One uses these devices to play vinyl records with. Each side of a vinyl record is around 30 minutes (between 4-6 songs), MAXIMUM, then you have to flip the disk over. Now that you have the basic understanding of the fickle record player, allow me to bestow upon you the problem that has dumbfounded me.
Marvin Gaye was responsible for most of the population in the late 60s, early 70s, being played in over %80 of the baby making sessions between the years of 1967 and 1977. Those are just the plain facts. Now, if everyone was listening to their favorite Motown artist on their personal players while engaging in baby-making, after 30 minutes of revving the engine, "hold on, let me just flip the disk..." *BOOM* the baby-making mood is assassinated. I'm not even taking into account the 7 inch versions of the vinyl records where you got one or two songs, imagine all the interruptions then, yikes. I'm not sure about the exact numbers, but I bet the world population was experiencing a steady downfall within those hundred years.
I'm willing to bet that the engineers behind the 8-track and the cassette tape were a bunch of blue balled, white boys who were more into the Sex Pistols than the Jackson 5. I'm just happy the cassette tape caught on when it did in the 1980s, or I might have not been conceived at all.
The variable you are ignoring here is the potency of Marvin's stroke. A Marvin Gaye song brings a couple to climax anywhere from 25-65% faster than say, an Elton John song, depending on the song.
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