Grinding (dance)

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. Grinding is a type of dryhumping, done to music, while both participants are standing. It is popular in the house and hip-hop dance styles. It is often performed at nightclubs and parties that play house and hip-hop music. It has also gained popularity at high school and middle school dances across the Western world, where there have been cases of administrators attempting to ban it. [Principal Chris Holleran (October 2006), [http://www.tamhigh.org/downloads/061004_WTF.pdf "Student Behavior at Dances,"] "The Whole Tam Family," Tam High PTSA, retrieved August 10, 2008]

Dancing which consists mainly of grinding has also been referred to as "freak dancing" or "freaking". [cite news|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=education/educationweek&contentId=A63657-2001Feb27|title="Freak Dancing" Craze Generates Friction, Fears|work=Washington Post|date=2001-02-27|author=Catherine Gewertz|publisher=The Washington Post Company]

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".

When a group of people line up to dance this style it is called a Grinding chain.

Perreo is a Reggaeton style of grinding.

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