| When one conjures up the images of belly dancing it is | | | | to try to try to be like women and the dances that |
| most commonly female Indian belly dancers that | | | | they perform are very often extremely feminine and |
| saturate the visions in the mind however there is little | | | | beautiful. In fact, the Indian belly dancing men do such a |
| known about Indian belly dancing men or the fact that | | | | fantastic job of setting out to impersonate women that |
| they even exist. | | | | most often the audience has no idea that it actually is |
| Oriental dancing men do exist in fact and there are still | | | | a male dancer. |
| many of modern day male dancers that exist in all | | | | This is the exact goal of the Indian belly dancing men is |
| areas of the globe from the Americas to Turkey and | | | | to not be noticed as a male while they perform the |
| Egypt. The practice of men exotic dancing has been | | | | most amazing dances with the demonstrations of |
| going on for hundred of thousands of years and has | | | | physical dexterity, suppleness and abdominal strength. |
| even been traced back to the very beginnings of | | | | The original reason the Indian belly dancing men first |
| exotic/belly dancing. | | | | began is due to the fact that the origins of oriental |
| Naturally the mind flows to cross dressing males that | | | | dancing began in the Middle East where society do not |
| try to masquerade themselves as women however | | | | view women as equal to men and most often are |
| that is not typically the case and certainly it wasn't the | | | | separated from the men. |
| case when exotic dancing was just being introduced | | | | In fact women were not even allowed to belly dance |
| to the world. | | | | in the presence of men and as a result the Oriental |
| It is not uncommon to see men from India Belly | | | | style dancing men would impersonate the women |
| Dancing or to read of men from the ancient years that | | | | oriental dancing in order to still have a performance to |
| had amazing stage props to assist their dances. Many | | | | provide the royal men. There are still many Indian belly |
| times they held such things as swords and wore | | | | dancing men today that perform and in fact there are |
| capes and it was all part of the entertainment | | | | several all over the world however they are for the |
| personality that the male Indian belly dancers would | | | | most part, no longer dancing to replace women |
| demonstrate. | | | | dancers in the presence of men. |
| Of course, there are also the cross dressing men that | | | | |