Posted on 10/17/2006 5:11:25 AM PDT by John Carey
The grainy high school dance video is lurid.
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.
ADVERTISEMENT 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.
After a jungle-themed dance in September, Principal Charles Salter canceled all future dances until students, parents and administrators craft a plan to stop freak dancing.
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.
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And the more adults cry out, the more they'll continue. I'm thinking of the reaction to Elvis. Um, so I've been told. I'm too young to remember. ;o)
Sounds like a Clinton reasoning.
That's one of the best solutions. Or they could hire one of the bands I play in. Here we are on Youtube...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRCcdHCBTEs
This is the kind of hedonism that used to belong only to the animals. Aren't we the cultured ones? [/s]
Have they ever been to a football game and wat hed the cheerleaders? I swear I saw six high school girls last week screwing the atmosphere.
You made me realize I'm too preachy. I was sent home once for a mini that was too mini. Just because they're selling it doesn't mean we have to buy.
I will bet the girls were wearing patent leather shoes to boot.
Shakin' it.
This is somethng the p.c. do whatever crowd just doesn't get.
Freaking out the adults is the purpose of most things teens do, dancing among them.
The logical progression from the air guitar.
America is unfortunately raising a bunch of whores.
I saw girls get into trouble for skirts too short or for rolling their skirts too....
Funny how these educators are now relying upon old school morality, when they are the ones who preached against it in the 60's and 70's, I'll bet this is an result at least partly of stopping all Biblcal morality in schools..
I rolled my skirt, too. I haven't seen any stops to the morality downslide yet, that I can think of anyway.
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