Music as an Analogy to Geographical Space

Throughout reading the Longhurst chapter, to be honest, I was not sure exactly what concept she meant by the many references to geography.  Going with the assumption that she is speaking of physical places and environments in which our bodies must exist, I want to make the analogy of thinking about music (particular pieces/songs, even) as a place, or more abstractly, as a "space".  (It is slightly different because we cannot physically place our bodies within a song as we can place them within locations in the physical world.)  She posits that we are not effectively grappling with the body's fluid boundaries because--to give one reason--the fluids produced that characterize the body as "messy" are viewed as abject, unclean; we do not want to acknowledge them because they tarnish the model of the human.

This phenomenon of skirting around the truth of the messy body is something I have seen in the "geography" of some popular music.  Some songs are quite sexual in nature, but the fluids that are inherently involved in sexual acts are pretty much avoided in lyrics by way of using implications rather than more direct language.

Examples...

• "Taste It", by INXS (lyrics, video): The title alone is suggestive of fluids; the video clearly shows the sexual subject material of the song; an excerpt from the lyrics is "Sweet, sweet, sweet / Could you taste it?", but to look at the lyrics, they are still rather abstract, not explicit.
• "Birthday Sex", by Jeremih (lyrics): The lyrics contain some pretty specific references but still step around the messiness of the act.
• "Secret", by Maroon 5 (video - lyrics in description): In this case the lyrics are not explicit at all, more poetic in nature, but the sexual nature of the song (enhanced by the music) is evident.

To ponder for a moment: Perhaps partially we are avoiding bodily fluidity and messiness in music (as an example of popular media) because it seems distasteful and human-image-tarnishing.  Because this is music, though, we may not just be avoiding something, but rather trying to glorify the actions without including dirty details--yes, they exist, but we know that in the back of our minds, so we need not include them directly.  Additionally (as came to mind for me via the third song above), part of the game is creation of mystery (through abstraction) and thus the desire to uncover more.  In that "more" could be all the "dirty" details.