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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It's nice to see what American culture is producing in our young 'uns. That's why I took mine away from it.
Parents have been freaking out their teens' dancing style since Lott scurried out of Gomorrah.
Yeah, and it now looks as if their worst fears were absolutely on the money. All of the warnings from parents of previous generations are now coming true, with a vengeance.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
nothing a bucket of cold water wouldn't cure. LOL man, that would be FUN!
Where did you go?
And not all areas of the country are like the cities.
Nothing really changes, does it? 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?
Slippery slope.
Slippery slope.
Is that what they call that style of dancing?
All we had was the "Bump" in school...
You're welcome.
A nation that abandons civilization will, over time, lose the benefits of civilization. It's something to be very concerned about - especially if you plan on getting old.
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...
We didn't come close to ever touching each other in any of our dancing back then.
Ewww, the worst was being caught dancing with some creep when it switched over to a slow dance number. Accck. "Ummm, I just remembered I have to go to the little girls' room to powder my nose" or "Gee, I just remembered I smoke and need to go outside - see ya!" and then pray that *he* doesn't.
Meanwhile, the daddies of many of these kids pay a girl who is nearly their daughter's age to bump and grind on their crotch at the local gentlemen's club.
No, no doubt all the fathers are Ward Cleaver in cardigans.
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