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Aziyade · 11-07-2007, 07:38 PM

see above -- EXACTLY!

Plus, it didn't help that in the formative years of bellydance in the US, if you went to many of the nightclubs, the dancers were wearing pasties and skirts split up to there -- because the nightclub owners also knew sex sells. So you try to point out that bellydance isn't about sleaze, and some guy shows you the old album cover to "Music of the African Arab" or "Port Said" and you just have to sigh and say, "that was then" and hope they get it.

11-07-2007, 07:38 PM	#6 (permalink)
Aziyade V.I.P. Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Cornfields of Evansville Indiana. Posts: 1,049	see above -- EXACTLY! Plus, it didn't help that in the formative years of bellydance in the US, if you went to many of the nightclubs, the dancers were wearing pasties and skirts split up to there -- because the nightclub owners also knew sex sells. So you try to point out that bellydance isn't about sleaze, and some guy shows you the old album cover to "Music of the African Arab" or "Port Said" and you just have to sigh and say, "that was then" and hope they get it.