Well of course!!! What else??!! In Arbeau's "Orchesography," where
he is explaining to his student, Capriol, the social importance of
learning to dance well, he says (paraphrased), "and it allows you to
hold your lady, and determine whether she is well shaped, or emits an
odor as of bad meat."
John
At 8:02 PM +0100 3/23/07, Daniel Wolf wrote:
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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