“Daggering,” according to the AP and The Daily Swarm — be warned that some of the seriously raw amateur club and outdoor-shot videos might be disturbing; the dance style is extreme, roughly sexual and often portrays violence toward the female participants. Snip:
Jamaican regulators say they are forbidding all explicit references to sex and violence over the airwaves.
The new rules from the island’s broadcast commission ban any song or music video that depicts sexual acts or glorifies gun violence, murder, rape or arson. The Saturday announcement follows a Feb. 6 ban that specifically targeted dancehall tunes and videos depicting “daggering” — a dance style popular among Jamaican youth that features pelvic grinding simulating sex. The beat-driven fusion of reggae and rap known as “dancehall” is hugely popular in Jamaica despite recurrent controversy over its lyrics and the dance style.
What is daggering?
Some call it “dry sex” on the dance floor of a dance or party, but daggering is where a man and woman are dancing in a sexually provocative manner, which usually includes them simulating various sexual positions, and often times, rough sex, to the beat of whatever music is playing at the time. In recent times, dancehall artistes RDX and Mr. Vegas have both released daggering songs in tribute to the newly accepted name for an action / activity that has been present in Jamaica’s dancehalls for many years.
(…read more and watch, thedailyswarm.com)
You may not have realised that i did not ask you to remove the image, i was just alerting you to the fact that you should have asked first.
hi Greg,
I removed your photo. if you don’t want your photos linked to by anyone — and I followed the hotlinking rules according to Flickr policy — you should disable sharing abilities, which will prohibit anyone from using your images — especially uncredited, unlike me. photographers on Flickr who don’t want their images hotliinked or snagged uncredited adjust their settings; in best practices in blogging this is how us bloggers know not to use your images without express permission. this is the easy to grab code (URL) I used to hotlink your image:
https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3334/3256476703_f733d7c1b5.jpg?v=0
you’ll want to make that go away so this doesn’t happen to you again. in the original post with your photo, I added the link back to you and the photo credit by hand to ensure proper attribution to you. but now it’s all removed. I meant no ill will or harm. thank you for your polite request for removal and your input on my post.
Just want to add a few things here.
1. This is my photo, and it is not a creative commons photo, it is a all rights reserved photo for which you should have asked my permision to use.
2. The Jamaican Dancehall is a explicit “place” its not for kids, its for adults similar to this website. “daggering” is not a new phenomenon, it has just been around for ages and coined with many different names: daggering, bubbling,wining, cool and deadly, grinding etc.
3. Every country has its own version of “dry sex” and sometimes “wet sex” dances, the problem with Jamaica is that the authorities have been unable to “regulate” which music reaches which audience, pretty much like the PG-13, not for teens, rated mature, 18+, the non age verifiable “enter if you are 18” button to view the pages of this blog, and other stickers that american and other media vaguely place on mature content in the hope that young curious minds will not be interested in what is supposed to be too much for their young minds.
Without proper regulation, you find the kids doing these dances as the dancehall culture is interwoven into the lives of most Jamaicans especially the influential youth. That problem definetly needs to be adressed as the kids are often able to recite the dancehall songs word for word, probably they are even more profficient at that than at regular items of literacy
As a result the government and its regulatory (what a joke) bodies try to patch the problem by trying to apply a blanket of censorship, the same thing that the owner and viewers of this blog would protest vehemently as a infringement on their rights to freedom of speech.
4. My position is that the dancehall culture is too influential to be allowed to be totally unregulated. but dancehall music is more of a social commentary, it does not speak to dreamland fantasies but actual happenings. The solution is not to mask the problem by blocking the commentary but to attack the root causes of the problem. Take away abject poverty, social injustices toward women, educate the young so they know the value of life, women, freedom and all those things and you will not have a dancehall laced with negativity because the populace will not be able to relate.
In the meantime they might have to continue with the censorship to start a turnaround in the music but not the reality.
I know you like to give everyone a fair timespace…but…WTF??
I guess I’m just old, tedious, and out-of-touch, but the expression “Get a room” comes to mind.
Dancing? More like dry humping. I’ve seen some really hot sexy dancing and this just aint it! It looks to me like the evolutionary cycle of the male sexual drive has come full circle. In the past there was at least some pretense of rhythm and style to cover men’s sex drive in popular dance, but it seems like there is just no need for it anymore. Sad. I hope this doesn’t catch on, I like the formal rituals involved in “the dance” of love…
BTW I’m an dancer (Lindy Hop, Blues). If you want to see some good ol’ sexy dancing search for some blues or lindy blues stuff.
(warning: snark ahead)
Looks like a Bang Bros. porn with clothes and no facials.
(snaps)