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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''Dance is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire.''
|'''George Bernard Shaw'''}}
Dancing, an age old form of entertainment between one or more people. Dancing in some form can be found in almost any culture and is about as old as time. It could involve one person, two people, a few people, or a whole group of people. It could for fun, or for exercise, and is commonly shown to be romantic. Why just look at those two, so close to each other. They are really getting into it.
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Tenuously related to [[Intercourse with You]].
{{noreallife|we'd be here all day.}}
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== [[Comic Books]] ==▼
▲== Comic Books ==
* A certain dance scene from ''[[Elf Quest]]'', but since the participants are nude to begin with it's probably not so much a metaphor for sex as foreplay.
* In John Byrne's ''Next Men'', "dancing" was the only term the Next Men knew for actual sex.
== Films -- Animation ==▼
* The "Animal Dance" segment of ''[[Cats Don't Dance]]'' ends with leads Danny and Sawyer, who have engaged in a one-on-one Dance Off, looking [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|rather winded]].
== Films -- Live-Action ==▼
* A lot of [[Bollywood]] movies have many dance scenes like this. Indian parents complain that the dancers are practically humping each other.
* ''The Wedding Planner'' used this metaphor to great effect.
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* There's one about a young fellow telling his friend that he got beat up because his girlfriend's father caught him dancing the lambada with her. The friend asks, "What, is he crazy?" and the reply is, "No, he's deaf."
== [[Literature]] ==▼
▲== Literature ==
* In ''[[Discworld]]'' novels, Nanny Ogg has much more to say about folksongs, folk dances, maypoles and suchlike things than Granny Weatherwax [[Too Much Information|wanted to hear]]. And it's not exactly about ''that song''.
* One short story in the ''[[Wild Cards]]'' series makes mention of the Wedding Pattern, a dance a Takisian couple does at their wedding party that's supposed to end in full-on copulation.
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* In the ''[[Kiesha'ra]]'' series, the dances of the Serpiente are supposed to be much more sexual that those of the Avians. A certain kind is only to be danced with between mates.
* In the ''[[Night Huntress]]'' books, Cat uses the excuse of blending in a night club to get very physical with her ex. Visibly aroused, he tells her that if she doesn't stop teasing him he'll find them a room and finish what she's starting.
* ''[[The Action Hero's
* The [[Queen of the Black Coast]] does this for [[Conan the Barbarian]]. Right in front of her crew.
* ''[[Doctor Who]]''
** The episodes "The Empty Child" and "The Doctor Dances" make use of the second version of this trope, but it was also invoked in "The Girl In The Fireplace".
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** Heck, pretty much ''everyone'' does this at least once. This is a family show, right?
* Parodied in ''[[Babylon 5]]'' when Ivanova got out of having sex with an alien by convincing him that a strange dance routine ''was'' how humans did it.
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'': Buffy did this with Xander in the Season 2 premiere, apparently just to make Angel jealous. Or maybe to mess with Xander's head,
{{quote|'''Buffy:''' Why, are you jealous?
'''Angel:''' What, of Xander? He's just a kid.
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* Emma Livingstone performs [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH8zH2BiwSM$t=22m40s this] [[You Can Leave Your Hat On|impromtu striptease]] on ''Doctor In Charge''.
== [[Music]] ==
* "Private Dancer" by [[Tina Turner]] and "Dancing with Myself" by [[Billy Idol]] use dancing as a metaphor for sex.
* When she performs the live versions of both [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvOzNOL0w1A#t=0m14s "Hey Bobby"] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
* [[Elvis Presley]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMmljYkdr-w This] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GanoEE7VUc#t=0m15s is why] they called him "Elvis the Pelvis".
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▲* When she performs the live versions of both [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvOzNOL0w1A#t=0m14s "Hey Bobby"] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPTT3A1YZRos "Younger Men"], K.T. Oslin thrusts her pelvis throughout both songs.
* The Mating Dance from ''[[Dinosaurs]]''. Robbie even [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|gets caught practicing it in his room]] in one episode.
== [[Theater]] ==
▲== Theater ==
* The musical ''[[Company]]'' has the solo dance number "Tick Tock" (cut from some revivals), in which Kathy's movements are a metaphor both for the ideal of "making love" and the banality of "having sex"—the latter being what Robert and April are heard but not seen doing.
* Similar to "Tick Tock" is "Bang!" which was cut from ''[[A Little Night Music]]''. It was put into ''Putting It Together'', in which two characters do a dance which is a metaphor for sex and narrated by another character. The fact that the other character is referred to as "the Observer" throughout the show adds an aspect of voyeurism to this song, remedied only by the fact that he isn't actually "there".
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* "Contact" in ''[[Rent]]'', in which the ensemble's dance converges under a big white sheet.
== [[Web Comics]] ==▼
▲== Web Comics ==
* The "[http://www.leasticoulddo.com/comic/20080317 Out!]" story arc of ''[[Least I Could Do]]'' introduces Rayne to [http://www.leasticoulddo.com/comic/20080324 grinding]. He feel that the art of the pick up [http://www.leasticoulddo.com/comic/20080325 should be something more] than just rubbing your junk on a girls ass and ends up in a [http://www.leasticoulddo.com/comic/20080328 hump off] that ends [http://www.leasticoulddo.com/comic/20080329 painfully.]
* In ''[[Crossoverkill]]'', when [[Bad Guy High|Captain Perfect]] asks [[Magellan|Hoodoo]] what kind of dancing she wants, her answer is "[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Crossoverkill/5371617/ Dirty.]"
* La Tango De La Muerte from ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'':
{{quote|'''Eduardo:''' You are now carrying my child.
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* ''[[Aaahh Real Monsters]]'' has the monsters reproduce ''literally'' by [[G-Rated Sex|dancing]]!
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
▲== Real Life ==
* Much of Latin dancing is this in essence. The Argentine tango, for example, if Len Goodman (who should know what he's talking about) of ''[[Strictly Come Dancing]]'' is to be believed, was originally a "check out the client before you take his cash" thing in the brothels of Buenos Aires.
** Argentine Tango isn't a Latin dance. In fact it's not even, strictly speaking, ballroom, but its own style. Tangueros and milongueros HATE IT when you call it ballroom. Len knows more than the average guy, but ''[[Strictly Come Dancing]]'' and [[Dancing With the Stars|its American cousin]] actually are piss-poor demonstrations of what AT should look like. (For what it should actually look like, the Robert Duval film ''Assassination Tango'' is a better example. Especially interesting to remember is that it was often, in its early years, a solo/challenge dance, and the partnered version was often practiced between men.) A better example of a Latin dance would be rhumba, based on Cuban son, or its related dance Bolero. The 'figure-eight'
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7WOk69UQWg The Lambada] was called "The Forbidden Dance" because of freaked out parents who thought it looked too much like sex for American children and teens to be allowed to do it.
* The waltz had a similar reputation in the 19th century—and even in the 21st it does kinda look like that. The common dance before the waltz was the
* Depending on precisely how the lead arranges the hold, any of the International Standard dances are close-contact sports that can involves some interesting "Wait you want what where now?" moments.
* Reggaeton, natch. The ''perreo'' is outright designed to be the closest thing to sex you can do in da club without getting kicked.
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