If you're wondering how to approach women, and you think grinding works, think again. It's a fact of life in nightclubs today:
There's grinding with your girlfriend, and there's grinding with someone you hope might become your girlfriend, at least for that night.
Men, it's not working. If it does work, make sure you're carrying protection.
Here's the scenario: A guy approaches a woman at a club or bar dance floor and presses his pelvis against her in a suggestive way (suggestive, hell -- it's pretty explicit), hoping she'll respond in a friendly way.
A researcher in Canada actually studied this phenomenon, which has become increasingly accepted over the past decade or so. Dr. Jonathan Huber, M.D., of Queen's University College in Kingston, Ontario, found that about three in 10 women think it's okay.
(ladies i ask you! Is this true?)
Good luck finding those three. Men's Health's own spot survey of attractive, intelligent women found near-universal disgust with the move.
"This is my biggest pet peeve and I think it started in middle school," said Kerri, 24, of New York City. "I cringe when I see men doing this at a bar. Ick!
"Grinding a girl from behind is like having a big, slobbery dog hump your leg. It's embarrassing, a nuisance, and just uncomfortable. Please don't do it. Ever."
Dr. Huber, a resident in obstetrics and gynecology, published his results in the Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality. He surveyed 143 women ages 18 to 28 at five Canadian bars.
About seven in 10 found "sexually overt approach behaviors" not acceptable.
Dr. Huber told Men's Health he and his team spent 100 hours investigating five types of sexual advances: two kinds of grinding (front-to-front and from behind) and buttock, breast and genital groping. He said they saw "a lot of ass-grabbing"; but little breast or genital touching. (Really i guess they didn;t go to a swingers club) LMAO
Fully 84 percent of the women surveyed had been approached by a man grinding her from behind, he reported.
"The sexual script may be evolving to include more overt sexual touching earlier in the script," he told The National Post, "whereas the touching decades ago only came in at the end of the story."
The women who didn't like it still "accepted it as something that just happens [at singles bars]," Dr. Huber told the newspaper.
And it's happening more and more -- and in some other places, too, said another New York woman: "Guys have even tried to sneak little grinds in crowded subways -- it's pretty desperate and gross."
One Canadian woman told researchers, "Grinding is just dancing." Women who objected called it "rude," "too personal," and "pure lust and horniness."