[Tango-L] the fear of close embrace

[Shahrukh Merchant]

In response to my statement:
> You should come to Buenos Aires and watch the glow on the faces of the
> "younger females" who just got invited to dance by one of the "old men" milongueros ...

Vince Bagusauskas wrote:

> Yes but would they rather be dancing with their own age group or not?

Who? The "younger females" or the "old men milongueros"?

My observation is that the OMMs dance with their favourite local 
milongueras (of all ages, but very good dancers) and "pretty young 
foreign girls" (who are at least good enough to keep them from looking bad).

As for the YFs, you'd have to ask them. I've been in Argentina long 
enough to have lost (or perhaps given up on) the ability to interpret 
what a woman really wants (while continuing the endless pursuit of 
trying). :-)

> My experience is that the men have more  of an issue with this than the
> women: they prefer to dance and socialize with their own age group.

Not sure that I know what you mean. That the men only want to dance with 
women of similar age, neither much younger nor much older, but that 
women are more age-neutral? I guess one sees all combinations, but I 
haven't noticed a pattern like the one you suggest.

Groups of friends who come together *tend* to be of similar ages in 
Buenos Aires (and no doubt elsewhere), but this is hardly so rigid. At 
the last milonga I went to, at El Beso, the women in our group ranged 
from age 26 to 80, and I danced with all except the 26-year-old (who had 
taken her first class that day and was "just watching"). But admittedly 
that's not a typical group and was somewhat of an impromptu amalgamation.

Shahrukh