 the male dancer
written by Bill at on 22.02. at 07:17:16 - as answer to: No prayer needed. Some of us are here.... by an >Thanks Mancer!>Some of us are always here to be "serious" male dancers. Any open site attracts freaks from time to time. But I find that some monitored sites are too monitored. I once said to a young male dancer (he had just turned 18): "Haven't heard from you in a while; drop me a line sometimes!">And the monitors though I was trying to seduce this young thing and banned me from the site. It didn't have anything to do with the fact that I caught two of the monitors giving inappropriate information that could have injured the dancers. No, I was judged inappropriate for the site and was banned.>That's why I have been "anonymous" for the past two years! I had posted on the site I was banned from under a phoney name, and got praises from the monitors for my insight and experience! Then I decided that they were so phoney and the site was so phoney I gave it up and went to boards that were not monitored.>So, I can still impart my humble knowledge. And I try to give serious answers on this board. Thank God for you and guys who are "serious" about dance!>Anonymous Anonymous, my recent questions have been tendentious - if this site is for The Serious Male Dancer, let us be men who are serious about dance. Ballet is not about textiles. Sure, issues relating to costume have their place, but the topic is not endlessly fascinating to me and certainly isn't why I spend serious chunks of my limited free time and disposable income in ballet class. That said, I agree with almost everything you have mentioned about those other ballet sites (that shall remain nameless). I, too, have been censored. Even the areas that are supposed to be set aside for men only are over-monitored, in my opinion. I have been told outright that if a parent tunes in to a part of the site that is supposed to be off-limits to her, she'll raise holy hell if she disapproves of what she reads. Consequently, there can be no honest discussions about sensuality in dance. Gay men, who for most of the 20th century were both the most numerous ballet dancers in America, as well as ballet's sustaining audience and patrons, may be seen but not heard. In fact, we are to pretend not only that this history never happened, but that gay men are now a minority in every way in the dance world. Nothing whatsoever that could possibly afright the ballet moms is permitted, and a post that is so deemed by the moderators will be deleted straightaway. Yet, for all the prissiness, not to mention the homophobia that dare not speak its name, those sites are extremely valuable. The numbers and diversity of the participants brings a lot of experience to bear on the many dance questions that don't directly involve s-e-x. Answers to this message:
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