One specific form of dancing we see often in the wrestling ring is the Sexual Victory Dance. This is where the Dancing Wrestler will stand near, or directly over, his defeated opponent and shake his hips, gyrating and booty-shaking right over the other man’s face.
The message being sent to the audience is that the dominant man is so much stronger, so physically superior, that he has time to dance around if he feels like it. The Sexual Victory Dance is meant as a show of one-sided superiority — it is a silly and laughable act on one level, but a serious insult and inappropriate degradation on another.
The Urban Dictionary defines F*ck Dancing as: “Any dance pertaining to or closely resembling fucking. I.E. Grinding, vertical sex through clothing while listening to music. If the boy’s mouth is open and his eyes are closed… he is f–k dancing.”
We often see a pro wrestler perform the Sexual Victory Dance where his “mouth is open and his eyes are closed.” This dance implies more than just a celebration over winning the fight.
The Sexual Victory Dance sends the message that the Dancing Wrestler is using, abusing, and basically raping the helpless man. Sometimes it also appears that the dominant wrestler is so excited about winning, about wrestling with another man in general, that his arousal has overwhelmed him, forcing him to begin to pleasure himself right in front of the audience.
Their bodies may not be physically touching, but the grinding of hips, the thrusting gyrations, the limp helplessness of the victim, and the positioning of his body over the fallen man all combine to paint the picture of a sexual assault. If the loser of the match is symbolically raped, the outcome of the match seems more meaningful to the fans, and the stakes of the match seem more serious and permanent.
This is a vulgar and disrespectful display, for one man to simulate a sex act over the body of another presumably heterosexual man. The dominant man is asserting that he can do anything he wants to the victim, degrade and humiliate him, even rape him if he wishes, and the victim is seen as powerless to stop the abuse. This is meant to be a slap in the face to the helpless man, marking him as inferior, submissive, a “bottom.”
And when multiple dominant men dance together over their fallen victim, a gang bang is implied.
Holy shit, that Dolph GIF…!