Why BURLESQUE was Best!
We have become too generous with 'show-and-tell'...we need to go back to leaving SOMETHING to the imagination...
My excursions to clubs here in South Florida are starting to leave one with the same jaded melancholy my first five months of marriage gave me. Here's why:
A young woman is gyrating and undulating toward a young man's crotch, practically
giving him a friction burn. Their bodies are sweaty and he is rubbing his face
through the back of her hair and 'kneading' her bum and thighs greedily with his
hands. The music tempers as the DJ makes an announcement and the young woman uses
the time wisely...she turns toward the young man and asks,
"SO WHAT'S YOUR NAME?"
Oh bloody yeah! She didn't even KNOW the wanker! But I BET he felt like he bloody well knew her!
I am not a complete prude- please do not make that mistake. I believe in enticement and seduction as vital to our interactions with the opposite sex. But is it enticement to 'dry hump' a man you don't know? I made a comparison to my first five months of marriage because I was quite the timid virgin when I married. My husband attempted to be 'patient' but was getting quite frustrated waiting for me to be "ready". I decided to reward his patience with my rendition of the naughty school girl striptease from "Exotica" (1994). I bought the soundtrack and let's just say that there was something about me NO ONE KNEW that night. He was so happy he waited another month! Friends and nosey coworkers often asked either him or me how he was able to wait so long during our courtship. He would smile naughtily and say "You gotta see her dance". While we were dating I would dance mainly alone on speakers or bars in clubs we would frequent. At five-two and just about one hundred pounds it didn't do much damage...except to him obviously.
I recently saw a documentary on some famous (and INfamous!) Burlesque dancers of the early twentieth century called "Pretty Things" (2006). They still had it! The IT being the attitude coupled with a sixth sense about what was ENOUGH. These women had female followers not because of the sexual orientation of the fans but because they could drive men WILD sometimes still adorned in their flamboyant ensembles. They are the reason I have never troubled myself about being labeled a tease and why I secretly gloat when I hear of actresses stipulating in their contracts that they WILL NOT be nude under any circumstances. But God love the actors that do! (wink)
We have all heard of 'Gypsy Rose Lee'...but did you know she was a published author? READ: "The G-string Murders"
Research: Betty Rowland- one of my fav redheads; Lois De Fee- the six-foot goddess; and the first of the feminist-lesbian Burlesque goddesses, 'Zorita'.
My excursions to clubs here in South Florida are starting to leave one with the same jaded melancholy my first five months of marriage gave me. Here's why:
A young woman is gyrating and undulating toward a young man's crotch, practically
giving him a friction burn. Their bodies are sweaty and he is rubbing his face
through the back of her hair and 'kneading' her bum and thighs greedily with his
hands. The music tempers as the DJ makes an announcement and the young woman uses
the time wisely...she turns toward the young man and asks,
"SO WHAT'S YOUR NAME?"
Oh bloody yeah! She didn't even KNOW the wanker! But I BET he felt like he bloody well knew her!
I am not a complete prude- please do not make that mistake. I believe in enticement and seduction as vital to our interactions with the opposite sex. But is it enticement to 'dry hump' a man you don't know? I made a comparison to my first five months of marriage because I was quite the timid virgin when I married. My husband attempted to be 'patient' but was getting quite frustrated waiting for me to be "ready". I decided to reward his patience with my rendition of the naughty school girl striptease from "Exotica" (1994). I bought the soundtrack and let's just say that there was something about me NO ONE KNEW that night. He was so happy he waited another month! Friends and nosey coworkers often asked either him or me how he was able to wait so long during our courtship. He would smile naughtily and say "You gotta see her dance". While we were dating I would dance mainly alone on speakers or bars in clubs we would frequent. At five-two and just about one hundred pounds it didn't do much damage...except to him obviously.
I recently saw a documentary on some famous (and INfamous!) Burlesque dancers of the early twentieth century called "Pretty Things" (2006). They still had it! The IT being the attitude coupled with a sixth sense about what was ENOUGH. These women had female followers not because of the sexual orientation of the fans but because they could drive men WILD sometimes still adorned in their flamboyant ensembles. They are the reason I have never troubled myself about being labeled a tease and why I secretly gloat when I hear of actresses stipulating in their contracts that they WILL NOT be nude under any circumstances. But God love the actors that do! (wink)
We have all heard of 'Gypsy Rose Lee'...but did you know she was a published author? READ: "The G-string Murders"
Research: Betty Rowland- one of my fav redheads; Lois De Fee- the six-foot goddess; and the first of the feminist-lesbian Burlesque goddesses, 'Zorita'.
Labels: Burlesque, history of striptease, modesty
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