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‘Baby It’s Cold Outisde’ is not a song about rape

By Lisa Lillianstrom | December 17, 2018

“Baby It’s Cold Outside,” the 1944 holiday classic by Frank Loesser, never seemed to be a problem for listeners until recently when radio stations started banning the song because it was deemed controversial even though the song, which has since...