Video: Freak dancing. Grinding. Or simply freaking. No matter what you call it, the sexually charged movement is changing the high school dance. In some school districts, administrators have canceled ...

Mary slid into her seat and asked the question that, as it became apparent, had been on the minds of many of my freshmen students that Monday morning a couple of years ago. They knew I had chaperoned ...

I also remember a television show on MTV called The Grind, which featured scantily clad dancers jutting and shaking (although on the show mostly dancers danced solo). Apparently, the 21st century has ...

Singer R. Kelly once crooned, “There ain’t nothing wrong with a little bump and grind,” but Prior Lake High School administrators couldn’t disagree more. At the school’s annual Sadie Hawkins dance on ...

IT is a close call, but Seattle Public Schools has no choice but to ban freak dancing, that hyper-sexualized bump-and-grind that some teens pass off as dancing. This is within the district’s role as ...

“Grinding: to rotate hips in an erotic manner,” explains the always helpful WikiHow in a guide that teaches teenage girls how to “be the best grinder at any party.” But I know firsthand that grinding ...

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Restrictions on freak dancing were first imposed locally at Santa Rosa's Montgomery High School, where administrators were sounding the alarm as early as six years ago, a time when freaking was ...

Inveighing against the mischief of youth is a time-tested technique for bolstering one’s notoriety, and Jenna Mourey, better known on YouTube as Jenna Marbles, is working the circuit with her ...