> Tango and sex... > I think you'll find that Tango dancers don't actually have much sex, > they are too busy arguing about the embrace.
Well, maybe on that side of the Channel. :) During the last pre-Christmas milonga I was chatting with my partner, and we also talked about relationships within our tango community. While talking we've counted (using mostly information based on observation and ...well... "reliable" gossip :) ) the number of dancers on the floor who has or had a relationship with at least one another tango-dancer (not counting those who started dancing tango _because_ of said partner, but including married couples who may have started dancing together). After a suprisingly high ~95%, we've also checked those sitting, along the same lines. The average was still above 90% (and these are only the affairs we actually know about), and married couples that started tango already with each other accounted for less than a 20% of this. Approx. 30% or more had two or more past (and present) relationships, however the one leading the list had half a dozen (and these were only among the dancers present at that particular milonga. In this person's case tango related affairs are in the several dozens - but this is not a usual thing in the community). People with at least one "clandestine" relationship (meaning: the couple tries to hide their affair while in the community) were also over 30%. Of course, all the above is not really specific to tango. Almost all small, leisure-related communities are very inbred and therefore the above is absolutely normal. Compared to competitive ballroom dancers (a much larger community, with a lot stronger separation from the "civillians" and with an age-average barely touching 20) or your average high school the sexual load is a lot lower. Cheers, Aron -- Ecsedy Áron *********** Aron ECSEDY Tel: +36 20 66-24-071 http://www.milonga.hu/ http://www.holgyvalasz.hu/ _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
