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Chicago Professional Prom & School Dance
Disc Jockeys (DJs)
Bumping, grinding, and
freak dancing
Hans Zeiger
April 24, 2004 |
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The contemporary lexicon of
dirty dancing includes such terms as freaking,
slamming, moshing, spanking, humping, bumping,
undressing, grinding, and so on. Dancing fascinates
cultural anthropologists because it seems that
dancing is an almost universal expression of love
without actually lovemaking. But for American high
school and college students in 2004, dancing has
become nothing short of group sex.
A few weeks ago, according to the Associated Press,
officials at Oregon's Bend High School shut down a
school dance after the bumping and grinding
(intense sexual hip rubbing) got so out of hand
that one teacher described it as "sex with your
clothes on."
But, says one 17-year old Bend High School student,
"it's just the way people dance these days." Many
students at the Oregon school plan to protest this
year's upcoming prom by throwing an expensive
alternative party, devoid of chaperones, rules, and
appropriate clothing.
After similarly lascivious dancing at Shawnee
Mission North High School in Kansas City, a
controversial dance behavior expectation policy has
been drafted by administrators. One senior quoted
in the Kansas City Star called the proposed rule "a
joke ... We're moving with the generation," she
said, "This is what we've seen."
Even Christian schools and Catholic schools have
dance problems. One music DJ reports on the website
of the United States Disc Jockey Association that
upon being handed a song play list at a Catholic
School dance, "At first I thought it was the do not
play list." If X-rated popular music is intended to
spark its listeners to X-rated action, it certainly
gets results.
When I was a sophomore at Puyallup High School near
Seattle, parental concerns over excessive freak
dancing led to new rules for the 2001 Valentine's
Day Ball. Students and administrators worked
together to formulate a reasonable compromise that
included things like no simulated sex acts, no
ankle grabbing, and no lewd groping. But renegade
students, determined to repudiate the new rules,
organized a competing no-rules dance at the Liberty
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At the time, I was Class President, and I organized
a meeting at which I addressed my class of 500 on
the importance of public modesty and school spirit.
My exhortations went unheeded by the several
hundred students who ended up at the anarchic orgy
down the street.
The notorious breast-revealing song and dance
routine performed by Janet Jackson and Justin
Timberlake at this year's Super Bowl is hardly a
shocker for this generation. Popular culture,
managed in large part by the marketing gurus of
MTV, has found its way onto the dance floor of
Generation Y. Chances are, your local educational
institution has hosted a recent dance with a flock
of J.Lo's and Britney Spearses doing the freak with
a testosterone charged legion of Eminems and P.
Diddy's. It is to be expected in a day when the
flesh almost always triumphs over the spirit.
Having seen it all, Generation Y is more than ready
to do it all.
They've done it all in Fort Wayne, Indiana,
according to an article in last week's Fort Wayne
News Sentinel. School officials are making what
effort they can to put an end to perverse
gyrations, skimpy clothing, and inappropriate
lyrics in dance songs.
Dirty dancing is the only kind of dancing there is,
declare the louder voices of my generation. "I've
grown up with it," says one girl at Northrop High
School in Fort Wayne. "That's the way dance is. You
have to grow with times."
In California, Palo Alto High School principal
Sandra Pearson refuses to "grow with times."
Pearson banned freak dancing at her high school
last year because she said it "is like pornography
... there are instances when a girl will be on the
floor and there will be guys on top of her,''
gyrating in sync to the song. The San Jose Mercury
News adds to Pearson's description: "There are
times when a student's head is nuzzled in another's
crotch. Or legs are hung around hips as pelvises
thrust against each other. Basically, it's anything
that looks like sex."
Even the rebellious Baby Boomers were quite
puritanical in their dance styles, I'm told, in
contrast to this generation. Generation Y is
bumping and grinding its way to the gates of
perdition. The promiscuity, the abortions, the
broken hearts, the empty minds, the annihilated
souls are proof of a generation that is literally
"freaking" out.
Hans Zeiger, 20, is a conservative activist
and columnist from Puyallup, Washington. As an
Eagle Scout, Hans is the founder and president of
the Scout Honor Coalition, a grassroots network of
Americans dedicated to preventing and countering
politically correct attacks on the Scouts.
Hans writes a column that appears in Renew America,
the Seattle Sentinel, WorldNetDaily.com, GOPUSA.com,
OpinionEditorials.com, Sierra Times, American
Daily, America's Voices, The Right Report, and
other publications. Hans was a freelance columnist
for the Seattle Times NEXT page, and he has written
articles for the San Francisco Chronicle,
Philadelphia Daily News, Baltimore Sun, Insight,
Birmingham News, Conservative Battleline, Wisconsin
State Journal, Tacoma News Tribune, The New
American, and Townhall.com.
Previously, Hans served as chairman of Washington
Young Americans for Freedom and was a Research
Assistant at the Evergreen Freedom Foundation in
Olympia, Washington.
He has been a guest on numerous radio and
television programs, including National Public
Radio, the Lars Larson Show, Point of View,
Republican Radio, Crosstalk, Concerned Women Today,
the Ken Hamblin show, and the Laura Ingraham show.
Hans has been referenced on the Rush Limbaugh Show
and in newspapers and magazines, including National
Review, Education Week, Mother Jones, and Agape
News. A dynamic public speaker, he has preached in
churches, keynoted civic organization conventions
and rallies, and debated Left-wing activists in
colleges.
Hans is the author of Get Off My Honor: the War on
the Boy Scouts, to be released by Broadman and
Holman Publishers of Nashville, Tennessee in 2005.
A graduate of Puyallup High School, Hans is a
sophomore at Hillsdale College in Michigan where he
is majoring in American Studies. His website is
www.hanszeiger.net.
© Copyright 2004 by Hans Zeiger
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/zeiger/040424
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