This particular article questions the now considered "family friendliness" factor that is now attributed to the show. It was written by Justin Wm Moyer of The Washington Post. It can be found here.
He writes:
In our gritty season of online porn, it’s hard to think of the Eisenhower era as edgy. But when co-creator Jim Jacobs, a self-confessed, “bona fide JD,” created “Grease,” he was trying to get at the dark side of the white working class. This show is, at heart, about a bunch of bad kids trying to get into one another’s pants.
“People get offended that there are teenagers portrayed onstage smoking,” he told The Post in 2010. Newer incarnations, he said, “try to get away from the heavy issues such as the suspected pregnancy or whatever … but the original version was heavy stuff. … It dealt with some real issues of the blue-collar kids in America.”
“Only about a third of the songs are about Danny and Sandy — the rest are about sex, cars, and rock-and-roll,” Miller, who has mounted “Grease” three times, said in a phone interview with The Post. He said “Grease” captured “a pivotal moment in history when TV was driving drive-ins out of business, drive-ins switched to teen-exploitation movies, teens were having cars and teens were having sex in cars.”
Sex, it seems, is “Grease’s” primary theme. It’s hard to believe that parents whose children were raised on the film version — in which “Deep Throat” star Harry Reems was once considered for a part — missed or didn’t care about its parade of innuendo: “Where you goin’ — to flog your log?”; “I feel like a defective typewriter … I skipped a period”; “The Hand Jive”; Travolta singing, “We’ll be getting lots of tit,” “She’s a real **** wagon” and “The chicks’ll cream!” in “Greased Lightning.”
