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Is there a more fitting song than this to 'freak out' over? A 53-year-old Florida woman named Mary Ann has lived with her cousin in Clearwater for the last five years. And earlier this week, she lost it when the cousin wouldn't stop blasting the same song over and over again on a loop. It happened around 12:15 in the morning on Tuesday. And the song she freaked out over was . . . Chic's 1978 disco hit, "Le Freak." (It's the one where they sing "freak out" over and over.) Mary Ann shoved her 64-year-old cousin into a makeshift...

AMERICAN teenagers are facing school bans on a new style of sexually suggestive dancing called freaking, the first dance craze to have been spread through the internet. In California head teachers, dismayed that many liberal parents do not see the problem, have resorted to showing them videos which use dolls to portray the children grinding their pelvises together. Some schools are introducing “no freaking contracts” for pupils to sign before they can attend autumn dances; others are suspending dances known as winter formals until the craze abates. For the first time in its 90-year history, the National Association of Secondary...

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...