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"When dancing back to front, all dancers must remain upright ? no sexual bending is allowed."

These dance instructions ? from a Wisconsin high school ? are being held up for mockery by The Smoking Gun and Drudge, but, frankly, I approve. Once you get past the silly term "sexual bending," it's pretty clear that the school officials are trying to protect the students from aggressive sexual touching.

... No hands on the dance floor with your buttocks touching your dance partner.

Think about it. That's a common enough kind of dancing that the school officials specified it? Obviously, some ground rules are needed for a school dance. No one is even saying your bodies cannot be fully touching in that upright position ? the extremely sexy dancing that we Baby Boomers remember from high school... back in the days when teachers demanded to see "daylight" between the dancers.

Full post as published by Althouse on January 27, 2010 (boomark / email).