The spiraling popularity of “daggering” has led the Jamaican government to take an unprecedented step: an all-out radio and TV ban on songs and videos with blatantly sexual content. The Jamaican Broadcast Commission defines daggering as "a colloquial term or phrase used in dancehall culture as a reference to hardcore sex or what is popularly referred to as 'dry' sex, or the activities of persons engaged in the public simulation of various sexual acts and positions." Therefore, "There shall not be transmitted, any recording, live song, or music video which promotes the act of 'daggering' or which makes reference to, or is otherwise suggestive of 'daggering'."
Also Jamaican doctors have warned of the dangers of daggering, after having many cases of damaged penis tissue over the last year. The condition can result in permanent damage and therefore must be taken seriously. Jamaican doctors assert that those trying to replicate the powerful moves of daggering in the bedroom can end up with dramatic injuries: they say the incidents of broken penises have increased in the past year; according to an article in the Jamaican Star. The community is divided over the dance, with singers up in arms over the ban, saying it stifles their right to free speech and diversity. Andrei Laskatelev argues that in social history numerous dances have been banned (the belly dance, the tango, the waltz etc.) and that it's just a matter of time, before the ban on 'daggering' will also be offset.
The spiraling popularity of “daggering” has led the Jamaican government to take an unprecedented step: an all-out radio and TV ban on songs and videos with blatantly sexual content. The Jamaican Broadcast Commission defines daggering as "a colloquial term or phrase used in dancehall culture as a reference to hardcore sex or what is popularly referred to as 'dry' sex, or the activities of persons engaged in the public simulation of various sexual acts and positions." Therefore, "There shall not be transmitted, any recording, live song, or music video which promotes the act of 'daggering' or which makes reference to, or is otherwise suggestive of 'daggering'."
Also Jamaican doctors have warned of the dangers of daggering, after having many cases of damaged penis tissue over the last year. The condition can result in permanent damage and therefore must be taken seriously. Jamaican doctors assert that those trying to replicate the powerful moves of daggering in the bedroom can end up with dramatic injuries: they say the incidents of broken penises have increased in the past year; according to an article in the Jamaican Star. The community is divided over the dance, with singers up in arms over the ban, saying it stifles their right to free speech and diversity. Andrei Laskatelev argues that in social history numerous dances have been banned (the belly dance, the tango, the waltz etc.) and that it's just a matter of time, before the ban on 'daggering' will also be offset.
I love world culture.
Coming to a club/dancehall near you soon!
Usual authority's reaction to anything they cannot control.
Roots reggae was controversial in the late 70/early 80s. Mikey Dread got a radio show on JBC but quit when bosses wanted control of playlists. Rastas were the punks of their generation.
Now, even white middle class people sing along to Bob Marley and the Wailers singing Get Up Stand Up.
Can't help wondering how many of the injuries cited above are in part due to sniffing a well-known south American white powder. Cocaine hydrochloride is an anaesthetic after all! Imagine the horrors of coming down with a broken penis!
Used to be that dancing was known as the "vertical expression of a 'horizontal' desire", leaving something to the imagination, rather than a simple demonstration. For this reason the town fathers here donated a hall to the church under the express condition that no dancing be conducted in it. Probably the tango hadn't yet been invented. I wonder how they would feel about it being used for Zumba and Ceroc classes these days.
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Gregory East wrote:Used to be that dancing was known as the "vertical expression of a 'horizontal' desire", leaving something to the imagination, rather than a simple demonstration. For this reason the town fathers here donated a hall to the church under the express condition that no dancing be conducted in it. Probably the tango hadn't yet been invented. I wonder how they would feel about it being used for Zumba and Ceroc classes these days.
Yep, several English people I know have been to Cuba and South America and returned expressing patrician indignation and embarrassment at the sight of children of all ages practising salsa and tango moves!
As for Scots presbyterians like in my extended family? Hmmmm I reckon they'd spontaneously combust!
Gregory East wrote:Used to be that dancing was known as the "vertical expression of a 'horizontal' desire", leaving something to the imagination, rather than a simple demonstration. For this reason the town fathers here donated a hall to the church under the express condition that no dancing be conducted in it. Probably the tango hadn't yet been invented. I wonder how they would feel about it being used for Zumba and Ceroc classes these days.
"vertical expression of a 'horizontal' desire" wasn't about dance in general, it was about tango. Tango had a bad, bad, bad reputation in the 1920s and before (to the point where Vernon and Irene Castle had to sanitize it to death before introducing it to Edwardian England). They loved it in Paris, though.
