Twerking Miley Cyrus shocks at 2013 Video Music Awards, but what is twerking? Watch the full 6-minute Miley Cyrus twerking video and learn

Twerking has been around for the past 20 years and is a sexually suggestive dance move that includes shaking the hips in an up-and-down bouncing motion (rather than side to side).  Adding the right kind of clothing (or lack thereof), as in the case of twerking Miley Cyrus, one is in fact reminded of the strip clubs that popularized twerking after the twerking move became popular in 1993, when DJ Jubilee recorded the dance tune "Do The Jubilee All" in which he chanted, "Twerk baby, twerk baby, twerk, twerk, twerk."

Miley Cyrus twerking on stage at the 2013 VMA was a bit more than most people would choose to see though. As the Los Angeles Times described it on Monday, “media reaction to Cyrus' bump-and-grind veered between disgust and sadness.”

On NBC's "Today" show, guest co-anchor Brooke Shields, who played Miley's mom on "Hannah Montana," called the performance "desperate." The Parents Television Council  issued a statement calling the fact that MTV allowed twerking Miley Cyrus on stage as “unacceptable,” and "Real Time" host Bill Maher took to Twitter to comment: "Haven't been in a strip club in awhile, but good to see nothing has changed."

Twerking Miley Cyrus at the age of 20. See the video below. 

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