# Have you twerked? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 13, 2013, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-twerked/668730 "2013-09-13T02:00:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sal\_Ammoniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-twerked/668730/1 "2013-09-13T02:00:06Z")
Me? Bless me, no. Do men even twerk? Is it even legal for people of my age to twerk? But there must be at least one person among us who does indeed twerk. Twerker, show thyself! ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-twerked/668730/2 "2013-09-13T02:25:53Z")
Men twerking? [Impossible.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pbz_8QpfNU) I only twerk when I’m drunk. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-twerked/668730/3 "2013-09-13T02:30:47Z")
Not even once. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-twerked/668730/4 "2013-09-13T02:32:39Z")
Nope. Never texted, either. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-twerked/668730/5 "2013-09-13T02:33:56Z")
You have to have a booty to twerk. I ain’t got no booty. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-twerked/668730/6 "2013-09-13T02:38:23Z")
Heck, I didn’t even know what it was before maybe a month ago. My wife didn’t know what it was until the VMAs. We don’t get it, but then we’re not in the target demographic. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-twerked/668730/7 "2013-09-13T02:41:11Z")
I kind of harbor a secret desire to try it- not in front of people, just alone, just to see if I can do it. But I’m afraid I might hurt myself. So no. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-twerked/668730/8 "2013-09-13T02:57:25Z")
I mean, I’ve shaken my ass on the dance floor but nobody, but nobody, said “hey, nice twerkin.” ---
**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-twerked/668730/9 "2013-09-13T03:18:48Z")
I think twerking is about the silliest thing on earth and when I see someone doing it I just feel… embarrassed for them. As a 35 year old male, the only redeeming quality I have found in twerking are jokes about me doing it. guy at work: That client (old lady) seemed really happy, what did you do? me: Oh you know, I just showed off my twerking skills. So no, I haven’t twerked, but you might overhear me claiming to from time to time. ---
**Author:** ![CLee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f19dbf/32.png) [@CLee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CLee)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-twerked/668730/10 "2013-09-13T03:25:00Z")
No, but I jogged down a flight of steps this morn and something definitely happened back there. I suspect it has more to do with the tiramisu I’m so fond of rather than the Yin Yang Twins on my IPod. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-twerked/668730/11 "2013-09-13T03:25:13Z")
I’ve sort of tried to figure out how that works. It doesn’t, with my butt. At all. Which is just as well, as ain’t nobody want to see that. ETA - **Alice** , DON’T DO IT. You’ll just be sad. Because no, you can’t. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-twerked/668730/12 "2013-09-13T03:37:36Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > ETA - **Alice** , DON’T DO IT. You’ll just be sad. Because no, you can’t. Oh. Well, okay. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-twerked/668730/13 "2013-09-13T03:47:27Z")
Currently, no. Back in the 90’s, when it was called booty poppin’ and I was a 20-something club-hopping dance-all-night type, yep. If I was a skinny little twerp with a flat ass like Miley’s, I would have been laughed off the dance floor. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-twerked/668730/14 "2013-09-13T04:25:23Z")
No. I had to look it up to see what it was when people started going crazy over the Miley Cyrus stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-twerked/668730/15 "2013-09-13T04:27:18Z")
Well I started out to try twerking, but I really only ended up blorking. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-twerked/668730/16 "2013-09-13T04:40:43Z")
After watching Miley Cyrus twerk, I think twerkers should be arrested and locked away. THAT’S it! I am now officially an old fogey. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-twerked/668730/17 "2013-09-13T04:42:01Z")
You don’t have to have booty to twerk. I have seen girls with no booty twerk very nicely. I have twerked plenty, but we just called it booty poppin. ---
**Author:** ![rhubarbarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb9ed0/32.png) [@rhubarbarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhubarbarin)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-twerked/668730/18 "2013-09-13T06:49:44Z")
I have twerked, but only because my boyfriend likes it. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-twerked/668730/19 "2013-09-13T07:53:07Z")
I’ve done it a couple times, mostly to make people laugh. I did it once at a con, while cosplaying, because someone who had an iPod deck played “Baby Got Back” and a whole bunch of women started shaking their butts, so I kind of got lost in the crowd. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-twerked/668730/20 "2013-09-13T08:55:17Z")
Not with clothes on. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-twerked/668730.md?page=2)