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> It's not specifically for women though, is it? I'm pretty sure the dance is
> done by both genders. It's non-Middle Easterners who made it into a woman
> thing. (?)
Check out the documentary Jihad for Love, a very interesting film on Islamic repression of gay/lesbians, and has a segment with an Egyptian gay man, exiled in France, doing "belly dancing".
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