Bellydancing...

[MarianJack]

5. My wife's best friend is a bellydancer

We've gone to see the troupe she performs with many times.

I consider it to be empowering to the women who do it. That's an impression I get from watching the women in the troupe, who range in age from their late teens to some ladies who look to be in their 60s.

While I believe that the women in the troupe are very lovely, I personally don't see anything sexual or erotic about it. When I was single and much younger than now, I went to a go-go bar or 2. I find the experiences to be very different. Of course, I didn't have a wife or son with me then, but I don't think I'd feel any differently if I'd seen the bellydancers by myself.

An interesting thing is that my wife's friend told us once that the original reason for bellydancing was to entertain the WIVES while the men held their counsels. Maybe true, maybe not, but Very interesting.

Anyway, that's my 2 cents, and maybe overpriced at that!

PEACE!