1510 The Voluptuous Dance => Wrecked Manhood
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 14:17:39 -0700
From: Striker <auto_d20@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: The Voluptuous Dance => Wrecked Manhood
The
Voluptuous
Dance:
Every healthy, vigorous, manly man knows that the
sex impulse is hard enough to control when there are
only natural temptations to combat. The embrace in
tango is strikingly suggestive. Most of milongas are
at night where no moral or religious restraints are
felt or exercised. The libertine is admitted on a
social and moral place with the purest and best girl
who dances. The seductive music and corresponding
movements, the stimulating refreshments, and the close
and sensual embrace, all conspire to awaken the sex
nature. Such dancing leads to passion and complicates
the social and sex problems of both men and women and
endangers their moral interests.
Leg Shows
and Sugges-
tive Movies:
Trashy vaudeville-like ("Forever Tango"?)
performances with leg shows and suggestive dancing
are no small factor in the development of sensuality.
No normal man, in the prime of life, can sit for hours
and be entertained in this manner and remain pure in
his thoughts. Some films exhibited in the movies are
quite as suggestive.
Improperly
Dressed
Women:
Many men who never have been immoral with women, and
have struggled to keep the demon of sensuality out of
their thoughts, meet with their greatest temptation in
the presence of improperly dressed women or at the
sight of obscene pictures. A mother with a fully
exposed breast, nursing and innocent, beautiful baby,
is no temptation to any normal man. But the partially
concealed breasts of an attractively formed woman no
well-sexed man can look upon, admire, think about and
remain untempted.
Hugging,
Kissing,
etc.:
Young men and women can not engage in indiscreet
social relations and retain perfect sex control. Such
social relations are breeders of sensuality and are
the chief cause of young people's immorality.
Wrecked
Manhood:
All these different agencies of sex stimulation bring
about a mental condition that gives a low and degraded
attitude towards sex and strongly inclines to some
form of sexual gratification. Manhood is wrecked
through abuses of the sex instinct.
Liberally borrowed and paraphrased from "Personal Help
for Men" by Wm. A. McKeever, T.W. Shannon, and Louise
Francis Spaller
El Duke.
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 17:37:17 EDT
From: Mallpasso@AOL.COM
Subject: Re: The Voluptuous Dance => Wrecked Manhood
That tome was published around 1924, according to my reference.
Here's another silly one from the same site:
21. Is dancing wrong? Can one do it just for exercise? Dancing is always wrong
—if it were done for exercise, people would dance with their own sex. Dancing
has been call “A hugging match set to music”—which agrees with the
explanation that “Dancing is hugging someone else's wife in public and a little loud
music makes it legal.” Dancing is the step downward that has caused scores of
high school girls to exchange graduation gowns for maternity dresses. It is the
instrument of the Devil in the guise of recreation which can lead you down the
lane of disgrace and can ruin your reputation. It destroys the finer
sensibilities of life and corrupts the mind. It drives young men into going beyond the
limits of reason and good sense. It is appeals to those whose hearts are “
jazz-minded,” sensual, interested only in satisfying the carnal appetites . . .
definitely not elevating the mind and heart of a young person endeavoring to
serve Christ.
Sounds like some Christian temperance organization on the loose.. LOL
See the entire article as well as other juicy tidbits:
https://web.morons.org/menagerie/books/helpmen7.jsp
El Bandito de Tango
In a message dated 7/9/2003 14:19:08 Pacific Daylight Time,
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>
>
> The
> Voluptuous
> Dance:
>
> Every healthy, vigorous, manly man knows that the
> sex impulse is hard enough to control when there are
> only natural temptations to combat. The embrace in
> tango is strikingly suggestive. Most of milongas are
> at night where no moral or religious restraints are
> felt or exercised. The libertine is admitted on a
> social and moral place with the purest and best girl
> who dances. The seductive music and corresponding
> movements, the stimulating refreshments, and the close
> and sensual embrace, all conspire to awaken the sex
> nature. Such dancing leads to passion and complicates
> the social and sex problems of both men and women and
> endangers their moral interests.
>
> Leg Shows
> and Sugges-
> tive Movies:
> Trashy vaudeville-like ("Forever Tango"?)
> performances with leg shows and suggestive dancing
> are no small factor in the development of sensuality.
> No normal man, in the prime of life, can sit for hours
> and be entertained in this manner and remain pure in
> his thoughts. Some films exhibited in the movies are
> quite as suggestive.
>
> Improperly
> Dressed
> Women:
>
> Many men who never have been immoral with women, and
> have struggled to keep the demon of sensuality out of
> their thoughts, meet with their greatest temptation in
> the presence of improperly dressed women or at the
> sight of obscene pictures. A mother with a fully
> exposed breast, nursing and innocent, beautiful baby,
> is no temptation to any normal man. But the partially
> concealed breasts of an attractively formed woman no
> well-sexed man can look upon, admire, think about and
> remain untempted.
>
> Hugging,
> Kissing,
> etc.:
>
> Young men and women can not engage in indiscreet
> social relations and retain perfect sex control. Such
> social relations are breeders of sensuality and are
> the chief cause of young people's immorality.
>
> Wrecked
> Manhood:
>
> All these different agencies of sex stimulation bring
> about a mental condition that gives a low and degraded
> attitude towards sex and strongly inclines to some
> form of sexual gratification. Manhood is wrecked
> through abuses of the sex instinct.
>
> Liberally borrowed and paraphrased from "Personal Help
> for Men" by Wm. A. McKeever, T.W. Shannon, and Louise
> Francis Spaller
>
> El Duke.
>
>
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 23:17:50 +0100
From: Bruce Stephens <bruce@CENDERIS.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: The Voluptuous Dance => Wrecked Manhood
Mallpasso@AOL.COM writes:
[...]
> Sounds like some Christian temperance organization on the
> loose.. LOL
Probably. It would be wrong to assume that there weren't (or aren't)
social problems associated with dancing. For example, in the teaching
environment, there's a teacher (a person with some authority) often
alone with a student. It would be silly to assume that there's never
inappropriate conduct.
> See the entire article as well as other juicy tidbits:
> https://web.morons.org/menagerie/books/helpmen7.jsp
The Library of Congress also has some
<https://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dihtml/dihome.html> in their antidance
section.
[...]
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 16:16:19 -0700
From: Rick FromPortland <pruneshrub04@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: The Voluptuous Dance => Wrecked Manhood (
Someone wrote awhlie ago:
>> interested only in satisfying the carnal appetites . .
Hmmm...ala WhenHarryMetSally...I'll have whatever Sergio & Bruce & Malpasso & Striker ordered for lunch ;o)
PS: Just watched TheFellowshipOfTheRing on a borrwed DVD player & am wracking my brains for a Tango analogy..hmmm...girlie-girl is also going to Saipan for a while. If anyone knows a cheap way to get there & back from the West Coast I'd be forever in your debt! Thanks ;o) Off to the beautiful waterfalls & pools in the Columbia River Gorge. Swimming too! Summer's here!!!
