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| 11 | 833 | It is not exactly a story dance, but more of an emotional or attitudinal View more quotes about piece">piece, more in the nature of a "role dance," a dance in which the slave dances as though she might be a virgin, but knows she is to be ravished, and that she is expected to be pleasing. |
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| 11 | 830 | The second sense is the obvious one in which it is a dance danced by a virgin, and usually just prior to the loss of her virginity. |
| 11 | 831 | In that sense it could be almost any dance which serves the purpose of displaying the girl before her initial ravishing. |
| 11 | 832 | The third sense of the term is that of a specific dance, or type of dance, most often, interestingly, not even danced by a virgin, but usually by an experienced slave. |
| 11 | 833 | It is not exactly a story dance, but more of an emotional or attitudinal piece, more in the nature of a "role dance," a dance in which the slave dances as though she might be a virgin, but knows she is to be ravished, and that she is expected to be pleasing. |
| 11 | 834 | The dance I was expected to perform was, I suppose, a "virgin dance" in both the second and third senses of the term. |
| 11 | 835 | Mirus, paradoxically, speaking obviously in the third sense of the term, had told me that I would do better at this sort of dance when I was no longer a virgin. |
| 11 | 836 | I felt metal anklets being thrust on my ankles by Tupita and Sita. |