Actual Belly Dancer Belly Dances

Actual belly dancer doing an actual belly dance. The first one is the example I find most likely, but this actually an entire playlist of 99 different belly dances, so ... bon appetit.
In some of the preceding videos, you will note that I stated that the dances being seen are not belly dances. That's true, strictly speaking, even though all of them use some elements of belly dance. Generally, the nakeder the dancers are, the less actual belly dancing is going on. It's a rule of thumb, I have seen completely naked women doing a dance that is at least close to belly dancing. For example, some of the dancers in the "Actual Naked Belly Dancers" video are doing actual hip drops and shimmies, if not particularly well.

I picked the video above, not because it's the best belly dance I've ever seen from an aesthetic point of view, but because it illustrates the sort of moves that constitute belly dance: hip drops, shimmies, shoulder rolls, etc., along with the expressive use of the hands (though I've seen much more effective use of hands by other dancers).

Princess Jasmine's belly dancing is a lot faster-paced than many other belly dancers but that's just a function of the song she's selected. Here's a belly dancer whose pacing is slower much of the time, but there's the same fine control of her body as she moves, especially the hips, stomach and torso. (Also some very nice hand gestures. Embedding is not allowed on this video, but you can see it on this link.

Here's a video that will give you some glimpse of how belly dancing can work when The Sexy is interjected into it: a gorgeous dancer with a very nice set of silicone implants dresses in a notably scantier costume than the others. In the last third of the dance she shows some very nice hip and torso moves. I imagine that integrated with a naked exotic dancer's deliberately sexy moves and I go "Mmmmmmmm."

Some skilled dancer may very well have already done this, but ... haven't seen it yet.

Now when you see a stripper or exotic dancer just rolling her hips and calling it belly dance, you'll know the difference. Public service accomplished!

Oh, and if you liked those belly dance videos, just subscribe to Aw Jaan's channel. You could learn a lot about belly dance by watching Aw Jaan's playlist at the top of this page, and have fun while you're at it.

Kicking Up A Kickstarter For My Latest Novel

"I'm not bad ... I'm just rendered that way!" Image source: me.
I'm in the process of completing "The Final Veil," a detective novel about the efforts of detective John Bowman to find a kidnapped belly dancer who is in a consensual real life realationship as a Gorean slavegirl. And this time I intend to do it right, launching the novel with a Kickstarter campaign to fun its completion and its marketing launch.

I don't know how many of you are Kickstarter fans, but if you're curious, here's their website. I don't have a page up, because I wanted to ask you: what sort of premiums would you like to see me offer for the book? (Remember, Kickstarter doesn't fund porn, and my book is not porn, it's squarely within the confines of the modern detective genre. Copies of the book in ebook or hardcover form? Sure! Signed copies of the books? The opportunity to have your name (or anyone's name you designate) appear in the books' Acknowledgements section? The chance to have one of the characters in the book named after you?

As you see I've got a front cover prototype all done and a teaser from one fo the chapters up to tempt people. Here's my teaser for the book itself:

April Dancer -- many consider her the best damn belly dancer on the planet, a breakthrough artist for belly dancers everywhere. She's been all over television, a living advertisement for the beauty and grace of belly dance, and she's an openly acknowledged Gorean slavegirl, livng the life consensually with her hunky master. When she disappears, the call goes out to John Bowman via the alluring belly dance teacher Lady Astra.

John Bowman -- a detective for the new millenium. Plugged in, turned on, online, a former to Atlanta detective who went on one too many pot busts and quit the force. With his crew of technical specialists, and his personal willingness to make it with beautiful women and knock heads with bad guys, he's able to bring resouces to bear that get results.

Who kidnapped April Dancer? One of her lust-crazed fans from her days as an exotic dancer? The Mothers of Propriety, a collection of morally snooty types? Or the ALFALFAns (the Alliance of Lesbian Feminists Against Legalized Fucking and Assault) a collection of womyn who despise myn? Or was it a desperate nutjob, crazed by April's beauty and sexuality? Can John Bowman find her before someone decides that murder is no worse than kidnapping and leaves no witnesses? He'll try if he has to interview and possibly have sex with every bluenose, feminist, belly dancer, stripper and slave girl in Atlanta!

Link to sample.


"Master? We were just waiting to have our brains interviewed out by John Bowman. We hear he gives great interview!" Image source: The Gorean Life tumblr.