The dance is performed where voters get on their knees and open their mouths, and Democrats stand in front of them.
Posted on 10/16/2006 11:58:01 PM PDT by World_Events
By Seema Mehta, Times Staff Writer October 17, 2006
A teenage boy dances behind his winter-formal date, hands on her hips, thrusting his pelvis against her while she hitches up her satiny gown and bends at the waist. Another couple dance facing each other, their bodies enmeshed and their hips gyrating in a frenzy. A boy approaches a third couple, nearly sandwiching the girl between himself and her partner.
Teenagers call it "freaking," a style of dance made popular on MTV. Educators call it "simulated sex" that has no place at school dances. This clash between outraged adults and sexualized teens is being played out at homecoming dances, winter formals and proms across the nation, most recently at Aliso Niguel High School in Aliso Viejo.
For months he'd implored parents to get their children to stop freaking, and even showed a video of the school dance to hundreds of parents at back-to-school night.
"The 'dancing' of our youngsters today is one step from events that should be occurring on wedding nights," he wrote in an e-mail to parents.
Though forms of freak dancing — also called "grinding" or "the nasty" — first appeared years ago, so many students are doing it now that educators nationwide are drawing up rules of behavior, changing music formats away from freak-friendly hip-hop, and banning from dances students whose movements are deemed too sexual.
"Of all the things that happen at a high school, having to spend so much time on dances — that's out of whack," said Kelly Godfrey, principal of Los Alamitos High School in Orange County.
Some students say a crackdown on freaking would discourage them from attending school dances.
"I wouldn't go," said Chelsea Walsh, 15, a sophomore at Aliso Niguel High. "It would be boring. How else do you dance?"
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Anyone who has ever attended a major convention can tell you otherwise. Oh, the things I have seen middle aged married men do, especially when the liquor flows.
As a longtime Vegas Veteran, I can tell you -- it's painful to watch.
You did touch on an interesting thing though -- the growth of so-called "gentlemen's clubs" is astounding. You'd expect a bunch to exist in NYC, but that number is dwarfed by the quantity to be found in mid-sized cities out in middle America. Something really screwy about that...
***Its inappropriate, disrespectful and obscene. Give me 40s style dancing. Now's that's decorous, elegant and uplifting! ***
You mean like "shimmey dancing"? How about boogie woogie!
I still remember when the twist was banned!
In the 70's it was the "freeky deeky" or something like that. Nothing ever changes.
"There really is no slippery slope -- if there were, then the world would have ended years ago. As it is, there are only trends that come and go..."
When, in this nation's past pray tell, was dry humping like dogs in a back ally the trend? What past trend do you suppose will be the next generation's form of rebellion to replace simulated copulation on a dance floor?
So, you're suggesting that there should be no age criteria to discriminate between adults and non-adults? Sounds like a recipe for "NAMBLA nirvana"(!)
The dance is performed where voters get on their knees and open their mouths, and Democrats stand in front of them.
You assume a type of moral entropy that doesn't exist. A lot of other factors play into it, such as economics, technology, geography, demographics, etc. etc.
"Fifty years ago kids horrified their parents by chewing "gum" and using "slang." Now it's dry-humping on the dance hall floor. See the similarity?"
no, but cleaning glasses and looking again
I'm with you on this!
HMMM. Maybe my honey and I need to watch more MTV and less FOX. LOL!
I have been thinking of taking dance lessons with my husband and love something graceful and classic with a bit of energy. Any suggestions?
And the Hustle!! (with my Farrah Fawcett haircut....)
Tango! Oh, if only I could find a dance partner. The tango isn't just dance, it's an art form ;-)
Yes, this sort of degeneracy is the inevitable result of a society awash in all forms of pornography.
"Its inappropriate, disrespectful and obscene."
I agree.
Absolutely.
(Can I go back to High School? I think there's some things I need to brush up on...)
"I ain't gonna bump no more with no big fat woman"...Joe Tex
Hey, it wasn't so easy for a boy back then either. If we did end up in a slow dance, it was a nightmare. Being a pubescent boy, And basically hugging a girl while swaying back and forth - well, nature happens.
Think about baseball, think about baseball...
Ooooooo, the threat of the teenager. So, if they won't go if they can't "freak" then do away with dances in school altogether. I bet they'd soon agree to the rules. And if not, so what? It's their loss, not the school's, who has to do all the work anyway.
My mother has always said that the worst thing you can do for a teenager is to be afraid of them. As soon as you do they have the upper hand. This girl sounds like she has too many adults afraid of her, and she's learned how to play that. I hope the school calls her bluff.
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