Dancing the lewd La Volta

Dancing, wrote Philip Stubbes in 1583, is altogether a "horrible vice". In his infamous work The Anatomie of Abuses, Stubbes protested, "what clipping, what culling, what kissing and bussing, what smouching and slabbering of one another: what filthy groping and unclean handling is not practised everywhere in these dancings". For dancing "provoketh lust, and the …

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