[Tango-L] PhD tango sex project

[Ecsedy Áron]

> 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

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Ecsedy Áron
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