The High School Dance is Corrupt and Depraved

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Thanks. I really don't understand how that works, but hey

"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers. " - Misattributed to Socraties (although a paraphrase from a later work which had him as a character.)

That's how the majority of people dance at dances or in the club scene. I've danced like that before and never had a problem with it as a girl, but different whatever floats your boat.

Never went to dances

No offense OP, but you sound extremely uptight about the whole situation, grinding is a normal part of most dances involing us young folk.

Never went to them either, and got tormented for not going, which made me not want to go even more because I wasn't going to be pushed around.

I've never been to a school dance before, but I think I have hope.
I go to a school which is almost half-mormon, and our church discourages that kind of dancing.
I know at our church dances (EFY), there wasn't grinding.
Still, I have never been to a school one, so I have no clue.
I would be disgusted also if I saw people grinding.
But as a lot of people have said on here, that is a cultural norm .
So I will see (if I go to senior prom...if I get asked), if my school is any different.
But for now, it is a mystery...
Good job for having good values...

Here's an interesting fact. When waltz first developed (that is, the form we know today) in the early 19th century, it caused a moral panic. Before then, it was unheard of for men and women to dance in a close embrace in public. Upper classes danced in groups, similar to today's line dances, and lower classes danced in circles holding hands. Sure it was quite G-rated by today's standards (the characters dance somewhat like that in Beauty and the Beast), but the closeness of dancing couples scared the "traditional" community.

Fast-forward to 2011, and here we are today, having the same complaints. Interestingly, some traditional partner dances are coming back in favor, after almost completely losing the public interest after the 1960's.

I don't see the big deal, there's nothing wrong with sexuality. It's not something I'd take part in, but frankly if two guys want to mud wrestle wearing cowbow outfits at a school dance it's up to them

I enjoyed dances when I'm going single with a group of friends as opposed to going with a date. You feel more lose and don't have to feel like a weirdo. You're not under the constant pressure of having to be in the company of your date the entire time either. And you can sit down during the slow dances.