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The Tango's Male-Male Origins

By The Daily Dish
Apr 7 2009, 7:07 AM ET

Well you learn something new every day. A reader writes about this post:

Most people don't realize this, but when the Tango first originated in the slums of Buenos Aires, it was considered so decadent that no women, excepting prostitutes, would dare perform it in public - thus it was often originally two men who danced.

It's true!



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