Re: [Mid] In defense of the bellydancer

> and they can make an honest living at it, then more power to them. I
> do, however, take exception to your comment about belly dancers being
> "acceptable" exotic dancers. WE ARE NOT EXOTIC DANCERS!! This is a
> stereotype we have been fighting since Europeans discoevered the dance.

Oh what have they done to our language? Exotic is something out of
the ordinary and from a far away land. Belly dancing is from the
Middle Esst, and uncommon here, hence it is exotic. Why do the
strip joints continue to call their performers exotic, when they are
in fact erotic?

  A three-toed sloth would be an exotic pet. Kimchee is an exotic
food. I see nothing particularly sexy about them, except maybe to
another sloth or a decompsed cabbage.

While many so-called "exotic" dancers are very talented and do much
more than take offf their clothes (I know one who does a fire act),
the primary economic reason for strippers to perform is to make men
horny.

Berwyn

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