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- From: jeff@smoggy.gg.caltech.edu (Jeff Goldsmith)
- Newsgroups: rec.skate
- Subject: Re: Ice Figure Skating - A Competitive Spor
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 03:46:45 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- >Also, I suspect that spending some quality time in the bedroom is a
- >necessary prerequisite for paired skaters to dance well together.
- >It ensures both their bodies and personalities are in synch, since
- >their sport involves touching each other all day.
- >
- >Why would a man who is gay choose a sport that required him to
- >skate with an attractive woman several hours per day? In other words, I
- >suspect there
- >are fewer gays in paired dance competition than in other forms of
- >ice figure skating
- >
- >I think you're confusing ice pairs dancing with the kind of dancing
- >you do on a friday at some club somewhere. Ice dancing is a sport, not a
- >social pick up event.
-
- Ice Dancing is too much hard work to be a pickup place, I think.
- Yes, there is a strong social aspect, but having been to many many
- Ice Dances, it really isn't a place where hormones run wild. Or
- at least, it doesn't seem that way to me. It seems more like a
- ballroom dance. Some folks go home together afterwards, but it's
- the exception, not the rule.
-
- Best I can tell, however, the ratio of gays to straights is a little
- lower in Dance than in Freestyle. (I don't know much about pairs.)
- That's only from a small personal sample, but it is noticable. The
- ratio is by no means zero, though.
-
- Still, I have to remark that there is a gay professional Ice Dancer
- who has had two of the most gorgeous partners that I have ever seen.
- If I were in his shoes (boots?) I'd have a hard time concentrating.
- So maybe that's some reason why those women chose him as a partner;
- he is there only for the sport.
- --Jeff
-