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Grinding (dance)

Suggestive club dancing

Grinding (dance)
Summary

Suggestive club dancing

A man and woman grinding.

Grinding, also known as juking, freak dancing or freaking (in the Anglophone Caribbean, wining) is an intimate and romantic close partner dance where two or more dancers rub or bump their bodies against each other, usually with a female dancer rubbing or bumping her buttocks against a male dancer's genitals. The male dancer will typically place his hands on the female dancer's hips or waist.

Grinding gained widespread popularity as a hip hop dance in night clubs, and eventually became popular at high school dances and proms in the US and Canada where it has garnered controversy and has resulted in attempted bans. A more graphic version called daggering involves a man slamming his genital area into a woman's buttocks.

References

References

  1. Gewertz, Catherine. (2001-02-27). ""Freak Dancing" Craze Generates Friction, Fears". Washington Post.
  2. Kennedy-Moore, Eileen. (February 18, 2013). "They Call That Dancing?! Can grinding at high school dances be stopped?".
  3. Ronen, Shelly. (June 2010). "Grinding on the dance floor: Gendered Scripts and Sexualized Dancing at College Parties". [[Gender & Society]].
  4. (19 November 2007). "Freaked Out: Teens' Dance Moves Split a Texas Town". Wall Street Journal.
  5. Black, Rosemary. [http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/2010/02/16/2010-02-16_dance_like_grandmas_watching_high_schools_nationwide_crack_down_on_freak_dancing.html "'Dance Like Grandma's Watching': High schools nationwide crack down on freak dancing, grinding"] ''[[New York Daily News]]'' (February 18, 2010). Accessed: February 17, 2010.
  6. Ordway, Renee. [https://archive.today/20120718143213/http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/134624.html "A grinding halt for Bangor High School dances?"]. ''[[Bangor Daily News]]'' (January 12, 2010). Accessed: July 2, 2011
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