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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Nope, can't stand it. Nothing to do with the message, just the music. Gospel might not be so bad sans instruments.
I think it's a lot easier to sell a gospel CD to people who like that music than it is to sell a rock CD to a kid. :)
But you gotta agree.... if they booked that gospel band.... there would be no freek dancing there :)
Now let me ask you .... what is the deal with the beard??? Walmart sells sissors man :)
We called it "grinding coffee" back in the 50s and it was banned at HS dances then too.Same old, same old.
Really? I respectfully disagree. I never witnessed, nor heard of any school kids at school dances, pretending to screw from behind back then. Or in the sixties either.
I don't remember "The Dirty Dog." My school wouldn't even let us "Do the Freddie." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rt4VSKvU8Q
I really enjoyed that music. Thanks
Why do rednecks prefer the doggie position?
So they can both watch the race.
Then see it before commenting.
This is not "Dirty Dancing", this is not "grinding", this is not Elvis with his gyrating hips.
This is a girl lifting her skirt and a boy getting behind her and bending her over. He then grabs her hips and starts thrusting himself into her.
It is simulated sex pure and simple.
And educators can't stop it because they will get sued by parents who can't understand that educators didn't learn anything from Footloose.
:)
As soon as the school dances started allowing the lights in the dance area to be lowered for on stage lighting effects back in the 60's, all sorts of things started happening. Then again, since you never witnessed or heard of such a thing back then, it must not have happened and it's my memory playing tricks on me. BTW, the Dirty Dog was when the girl would pretend to ride on the guy's knee. It was pretty disgusting looking back then.
I did not have sex with that woman, my dance partner.
Most of us thought the same thing, figured what was behind the high *expectations* placed upon us was to help build the brave new world.
In hindsight a genuine study in what was considered "sanity v.s. insanity", one might say.
Today we're getting remakes of remakes outa Hollyweird & 30 year old "classic rock" songs, once the bedrock of a "cultural revolution", selling Fords, Chevy's, dish soap & dog food.
This has only been made possible by the superior youngsters produced over the past couple generations who're "in charge" today who haven't a clue when it comes to genuine "creativity", where originality's only a word & form without substance completely acceptable.
That's just the way it is.
"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."
When everything was so successfully dumbed-down, presumably to accommodate all visa vi hare brained schemes such as "inclusion" the die was struck.
I'm afraid this is what we all get now, gross banality.
FWIW if being a realist makes one pessimistic, so be it.
Self delusion has after all played no small part putting us where we find ourselves, today.
...~eh?
Yes, cheerleaders and dance groups on the "talent" shows have long been performing what used to be called, "hootchie kootchie dancing".
My question is, do young men today need that much encouragement? That wasn't true in the old days.
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"Elvis was a scandal in those days because they said it would inevitably lead to more even more sexual dancing.
They were right it seems."
Indeed, every prediction conservatives have made about effects of relaxing behavioral standards have come true. Language, dance, music, the content of TV and movies. At every step conservatives objected to the increasingly inappropriate material, only to be ridiculed.
If you want a shock watch some "All in the Family" reruns, on many of the issues Archie was ridiculed about, HE WAS RIGHT.
Well, kwap! I'm reeling from that sharp detective work, but honestly, I was 11 years old when best friend and I went to Elvis movies.
But, gogo boots? The only ones I had were white, so theree were no black marks on the floor. ;o)
Your post is informational, up to the last line, which is specious. If it's a problem, they should invite parents to attend the dances, as was done long ago. Once Mr. Boethius sees little Suzie Boethius takin' it dogstyle, he's not going to sue the school district. Suzie just won't be leavintg her bedroom closet for a few years. :)
Did you have the white lipstick to match them..... too? ;)
That would be true if most parents haven't bought into the liberal lie that schools are there to raise the kids. Most parents will not go even if invited because they would embarass their child, and heaven forbid little Billy or Susie have to be seen in public with Mom or Dad.
What would stop it is video taping the dance floor and mailing a CD of the dance to the parents.
Then it looks like you've brought the situation back to where it belongs - right in the parents' laps. (And I don't mean as in lap dance).
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