freak dancing

Grinding is a type of close partner dance where two or more dancers rub their bodies (especially the genitalia) against each other in a sexually suggestive manner. It has gained popularity at high school and middle school dances especially in the United States^{[citation needed]} where there have been cases of administrators attempting to ban it due to its explicit nature and incidence involving injury.^[1]

Dancing which consists mainly of grinding has also been referred to as freak dancing or freaking.^[2]

Elements of "grinding" may be seen in the 1987 movie Dirty Dancing. Lambada was a dance craze that featured grinding actions, as seen, for example, in the movies The Forbidden Dance and Lambada.

Perreo is a Reggaeton style of grinding.

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