bttt
Really hate to admit this, but we did some pretty sexy dancing in high school back in ‘68.
looks like Hollyweird will have another job for Kevin Bacon...
Recalling one report locally...
Only 62 students signed up for the dance and that’s why it was canceled.
I’m glad the rest boycotted. Maybe they have learned a lesson for later in life...don’t settle for BS you disagree with.
“Dirty Dancing” was set in the ‘60s. How much more “suggestive” can dancing be with your clothes on.
***Administrators at Brighton High School said they’re trying to stop a style of dancing they consider obscene ***
I remember back in 1962 when the TWIST was banned at the teen dances at the National Guard Armory at Carlsbad, NM!
And I recently saw an old Harold Lloyd movie from about 1922 in which there was a sign at the dance hall, “NO SHIMMY DANCING!”
Just play 40’s 50’s music. That’ll slow ‘em down.
I saw a demonstration of this phenom in the aisle of the local grocery store recently. It’s graphic. Reminded me of the way chimps and monkeys signal that they want some.
I used to read ‘Education Weekly’. I recall reading of trios on the dance floor ‘phreaking’. By it’s description, a girl crouches on all fours while one boy thrusts his pelvis into hers from behind while the boy in front of her pushes her face into his groin while he thrusts. This is not ‘the twist’, this is far more explicit than ‘Dirty Dancing’. The reason they aren’t dancing the way they did 50 years ago is because back then, simulating graphic, multi-partner, anonymous sex in public was frowned upon. (some attention was paid, in the article, to the fact that girls tended to accept partners they did not know) Once school had to write specific rules specifying how many hands/feet a girl could have on the floor at any time - hence the morphing of ‘all fours’ into a low crouch forward - that way one can still simulate sex and not break the rules. Terrible social pressure on the kids who don’t want to do this but don’t want to be seen as weird - ah the irony. Sad, really.
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Ladies and gentlemen, this is where our culture is now. Makes the twist or other "old fashioned" dancing look like the minuette or square dancing. And you think this is the lowest it can go? There is not end to the degradation unless it is stopped by external force. How bad will it have to get before good citizens put a stop to it?
How to put a stop to it? There are many ways, telling the truth is the first one. How about parents attending such dances en masse and putting a stop to it? Of course, that's not the total answer, there is no "one" answer. But the brakes need to be slammed to the floor, only then can we turn this hellish descent into the abyss around.
I’m trying to imagine the response I would have gotten if I’d have asked our school nurse for a free condom in 1975.
Today, there’s a glass cookie jar full of them on the high school receptionist’s desk.
May 22nd is Harvey Milk Day. A whole day celebrating perversion.
And we’re worried about a dance?
So?...Is this the wonderful socialization homeschoolers are missing? ( Just wondering?)
Oye.
I haven’t attended a school dance since the 10th grade (which was only 9 years ago). I never went to my prom but I also am at the age where I know exactly what goes on at these “dances”. To be honest, it’s not what goes on at the dance that worries me as much as what goes on afterwards. I picked my 13 year old cousin up at a middle school dance one night. All her friends had some pretty revealing clothes on, getting into their parents cars and being taken to the next “party”. She was a little PO’ed I told her to get in the car with her friends watching, but we had a long talk on the way home about where her “friends” will be in 4 years if they keep it up.