It all depends upon how one defines "in good fun". The use of social
dancing, even the most outwardly chaste in appearance, as a way to
either lead to or sublimate a sexual encounter has a long history and is
nearly universal in practice.
DJW
John Howell wrote:
Same root as the Elizabethan dance, the Volta or Lavolta, a fast
galliard during which the gentleman grabs the lady by the bottom of
her busk and twirls her around. (Looks almost pornographic in the
paintings, but it was all in good fun, and the busks were so stiffened
with whalebone stays that he couldn't have gotten away with anything
anyhow!!!)
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