Teens' Dancing Is Freaking Out the Adults

The Christan Science Monitor ^ | October 17, 2006 | Seema Mehta

[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.

[alicewonders]

It's sad. Unfortunately, I don't know anyway to turn back from this point. Things just go from worse to worst & I can understand how after you've lived so long, just getting to a point where you're ready to move on to greener eternal pastures.

You can live so long & see so much change......I hate to think what the kids will be doing in 20 years. My mind just can't go there.

[sandbar]

>>>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.>>>

I was appalled the last high school football game I went to. All they needed was a pole.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

I thought the opposite was true. The p.c. crowd wants to set their own standards, making us into automatons, stopping any creative thought that might come up with a workable solution. How often do they say, "You CAN'T do that!"?

[MBB1984]

Adults should be outraged because this is nothing more than simulated sex in public by juveniles with no sense of the consequences of their actions. Such "orgy" dancing will quickly evolve to promiscuous sexual encounters, leaving a trail of venereal disease, pregnancy, abortion, heartache, depression and suicide. But, hey, all that is something the left wants to celebrate!

Our nation becomes more and more like the decaying Roman empire every day.

[kjam22]

Fox n Friends was just showing the Tampa Bay cheerleaders doing their "thing". I guess that's what most high school cheerleaders want to grow up and be?

[AppyPappy]

Or perhaps the immoralists want our children to be indoctrinated so they will become easier prey.

Freak dancing is what we used to call "dry humping".

[daybreakcoming]

The two film clips I've ever seen of the freak dancing reminds me of African fertility dances. Those kids don't know how stupid looking they are - especially the girls who are being used as masturbation tools.

[Baseballguy]

HAHAHAHAHAHA.

When the educators of today where in school they went to woodstock and called it a civil revolution. Ask any of them which Beatles songs where the best and if the concept of free love was made up for thier generation only.

Its a world of growth and Elvis started it and what do you expect.

I just heard a commercial on the radio about a rent a mother. If you are too busy for your child have a nanny for rent. Where does the morals of the country end???

[Pan_Yans Wife]

I'm not advocating the dance. I'm just opposed to group think.

[Kakaze]

" How often do they say, "You CAN'T do that!"? "

It's normally those who attempt to set a standard the p.c. police tell that too.

Anything deviant goes..and don't you dare question it.

We are probably on the same page just comming at it from different angles :)

[Realism]

Teenagers call it "freaking,"

Back before MTV existed we used to call it "dirty dancing"

[AppyPappy]

I'm just opposed to group think.

That doesn't make any sense.

[Loud Mime]

I hate to think what the kids will be doing in 20 years.

If the 'rats gain control, we'll be living under a shariah by that time.
We won't have to worry about dances or music at all!

[R. Scott]

My daddy told me of the adults freaking out when teens were dancing the jitterbug, but he still freaked out at rock and roll.

[R. Scott]

I swear I saw six high school girls last week screwing the atmosphere.

Safe sex?

[alicewonders]

You are correct. I hadn't factored that into the equation. How can this be happening? I always thought we would progress into the future - not regress.

Human creativity seems to be at a low point right now. I think we're in the beginning stages of a new dark ages. I hate to be a pessimist about it.

[linda_22003]

The description in the article sounds like "dirty dancing" - from twenty years ago.

[metesky]

We called it "grinding coffee" back in the 50s and it was banned at HS dances then too. Big stink and yet we all grew up to have our mortgages, car loans, families, etc.

Same old, same old.

[linda_22003]

"Where does the morals of the country end???"

The same place as the grammar, apparently! :)

[MMcC]

If the 'rats gain control, we'll be living under a shariah by that time. We won't have to worry about dances or music at all!

Sharia wouldn't be too much different from the way things would be if some of the more moralist FReeper had their way.