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ORIGINAL: kittinSol

I think this clip of Rita Hayworth is hypnotising: it's the one where she peels off her gloves... omg.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVI0A4DTVgg

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ORIGINAL: LadyHathor

maybe in your world, but not Mine.
 

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ORIGINAL: MalcolmVice

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ORIGINAL: kittinSol

I think this clip of Rita Hayworth is hypnotising: it's the one where she peels off her gloves... omg.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVI0A4DTVgg

Ah yes, that's more to my taste.

I see your Rita Hayworth, and raise you Grace Kelly in Rear Window. Alas, I could not find the clip of her emerging from the bedroom in her nightgown, but this should suffice:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHf610wKmCw

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ORIGINAL: Pyrrsefanie

In reference to the OP:

Speaking as a bellydancer... this is a really sensitive subject for a lot of us.

Bellydancing itself is not meant to be seductive.  The image of a sultan sitting on a throne surrounded by scantily-clad harem girls just ain't real, sadly.  I think when they said "exotic bellydancing demonstration" they meant unusual, foreign, etc., not in the same way as an "exotic dancer" because it didn't look to me like a burlesque routine or a routine intended to arouse.

It's actually an insult to a lot of us when people watch us dance (in a celebration of life, health, and femininity, for some it's even a spiritual thing) and then are like "LOL SEXY UR HOT."  We appreciate that we're nice to look at, but dear God, it'd be nice for people to view it as a legitimate cultural art form rather than seduction.

That being said, there are certainly some bellydancing/burlesque combination routines that are simply amazing and really meant to seduce, where saying "oh man, that was hot" would be encouraged and appropriate.

Just popping in with my .02 here.  I don't think you intended to say that all bellydancers were lolhotstripperz or anything, but I just wanted to diffuse that stereotype before it began.

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Grace Kelly? Whats with you and all the Ice Princesses????

Marilyn Monroe...now she had REAL sizzle!

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ORIGINAL: MalcolmVice
Hmm, you have a point, and honestly I didn't mean to offend, though I must protest at being compared to the common youtube commenter...

I would like to think I was appreciating a display of sincere feminity, being a red-blooded male I probably appreciate that feminity in a different way to a hetero female *grin* but I very definitely was not perving, nor was I inviting it. There is a difference.

Does that suffice?

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ORIGINAL: Pyrrsefanie

In reference to the OP:

Speaking as a bellydancer... this is a really sensitive subject for a lot of us.

Bellydancing itself is not meant to be seductive.  The image of a sultan sitting on a throne surrounded by scantily-clad harem girls just ain't real, sadly.  I think when they said "exotic bellydancing demonstration" they meant unusual, foreign, etc., not in the same way as an "exotic dancer" because it didn't look to me like a burlesque routine or a routine intended to arouse.

It's actually an insult to a lot of us when people watch us dance (in a celebration of life, health, and femininity, for some it's even a spiritual thing) and then are like "LOL SEXY UR HOT."  We appreciate that we're nice to look at, but dear God, it'd be nice for people to view it as a legitimate cultural art form rather than seduction.

That being said, there are certainly some bellydancing/burlesque combination routines that are simply amazing and really meant to seduce, where saying "oh man, that was hot" would be encouraged and appropriate.

Just popping in with my .02 here.  I don't think you intended to say that all bellydancers were lolhotstripperz or anything, but I just wanted to diffuse that stereotype before it began.