Twerking is a type of dancing in which an individual, usually a female, dances to music in a sexually provocative manner involving thrusting hip movements and a low squatting stance. The term seems to be a contraction of the words "twist" and "jerk", there is evidence from ethnographic interviews in New Orleans that the term began as street language in New Orleans with the rise of the local hip-hop music known as Bounce. Since the late 1990s, twerking was associated with Bounce music of the Dirty South Comparisons have been made with traditional African dances, for instance the Mapouka or Soukous which was banned from Ivory Coast's television due to its suggestive nature. 

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