REQUEST: various kinds of paired dance and bdsm and the way they match up almost exactly (and, of course, there are the guys who...
iwanderedon asked: REQUEST: various kinds of paired dance and bdsm and the way they match up almost exactly (and, of course, there are the guys who are there because it's a chance to touch a girl, which probably has a bdsm counterpart too but idk). what is the relationship between swing dancing and swinging. will somebody finally tell me what contra is. (why these people never actually do, you know, real dancing that's not a series of a few giant boring building blocks.)
Contra dancing has a centuries-long history? So says Wikipedia. Huh.I had always kind of assumed it was invented in 1986 by Jewish organizations worried about intermarriage and birthrates, as a way to trick neurotic single overeducated 20-somethings into touching each other.