In 1980, a punk rock band called Minor Threat, wrote a song called 'Straight Edge' in response to rampant self-indulgent lifestyles associated with punk rock. Straight Edge has blossomed into a healthy lifestyles sub-culture promoting abstinence, vegan, drug-free lifestyles. The notorious black X or XXX icon worn as a tattoo or design on the back of the hand symbolizes a Straight Edge member's resistance to drugs, alcohol, promiscuous sex and meat-based diets.Straight Edge members commit to a five-pronged pledge of 'Discipline, Resistance, Commitment, Conviction, Persistence '. Under this motto, members also refrain from eating meat and animal by-products (follow a vegetarian or vegan diet) and practice clean lifestyles, swearing off from promiscuous sex, drugs and alcohol, including cigarettes and caffeine. Straight Edge XXX Teaches Clean Living, Abstinence Through Punk Music
