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or move to the left or right or whatever. She is supposed to be able to divine that intention and act accordingly and if she doesn't she is just a dumb broad and a lousy dancer. Few men, be it noted at this point, are lousy dancers or leaders by THEIR opinion.

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I greatly enjoy dancing, with a good dancer that is, and the oppor- tunity to enjoy the music, the bodily motion to express the rhythm and so on. I also appreciated the opportunity to wear pretty evening dresses and jewelry the things I used to be so envious of on the girls at the college dances. But I soon learned that most of the men had other things on their mind besides dancing and it was a new and fascinating experience learning to accept their compliments and parry their ver- bal advances. I was obviously neither prepared nor intending to "go the route" that they had in mind and I was not about to allow myself to be revealed and take a beating for it. But anything short of that was great fun and it taught me much more about men than I ever knew from being one. As a man I used to resent it when women would say, "Men only have one thing on their mind," because I didn't feel that that applied to me, but since I have become a woman, I must say I've come to the same conclusion. The only difference between one and another is how anxious, how smooth, and how interested they happen to be. But unless they are 85 and over the hill, there is only one purpose in a woman as far as they are concerned. This is a generalization to be sure and there are exceptions to this as to all generalizations I was one of them myself as Charles and probably many of those of you who read this are, too - but as a generalization it is still valid. I wonder if men really have any idea of this themselves?

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The nature of this boy-girl interaction was rather clearly brought home to me early in my "career" when one night I was dancing with a man who was from Chicago. It so happened that they were playing the piece named "Chicago" and there is a line in that song that says, "I saw a man dancing with his wife in Chicago, Chicago." Since there was a vocalist with the orchestra, she sang these words and and in- nocently enough and just to make conversation (which is pretty dif- ficult anyway when you are dancing with a complete stranger), I said to him, knowing that he was from Chicago, "Gee, do you mean they actually do things like that in Chicago?" To which he nonchalantly replied, "Well, I suppose he would, if she was good in bed." With that I made a rather surprised mental note of this tying up dancing and bed activities. We danced around the floor a bit and he suddenly said, "I'll bet you are good in bed, Virginia" (we had introduced ourselves by first names). And I thought to myself, "Oh, oh, this one's really got it on his mind."

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