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Erotic Dancers: Bacchá, List of Strippers, Tabitha Fringe Chase, Exotic Dancer, Bathyllu
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-09-15.
ISBN 9781157244653
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Chapters: Bacchá, List of Strippers, Tabitha Fringe Chase, Exotic Dancer, Bathyllus. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: In the settled oasis region of Central Asia (Turkestan), entertainers known as bacchá (a Turkic term borrowed from Persian bacche "child, young man, calf") were once common, and constituted the commercial and transgender side of the local pederastic tradition known as bacchabozlik. A bacchá, typically an adolescent of twelve to sixteen, was a performer practiced in erotic songs and suggestive dancing. He wore resplendent attire and makeup, has been considered by some as cross-dressing or actual transgender expression, but contested by others such as historian and anthropologist Anthony Shay as being more akin to situational homosexuality. The bacchá was appreciated esthetically for his androgynous beauty, but was also available as a sex worker. The boys were drawn from the ranks of the underclasses, as the profession was as much despised as it was admired. In some Southwest Asian provinces they were often Christians and Jews, while in Central Asia and Afghanistan they were both Muslims and Jews. The bacchás were trained from childhood and carried on their trade until their beard began to grow. Once they matured out of the trade, some were set up by their patrons in business as merchants, but most boys were left to their own, often meager, resources. Though after the Russian conquest the ethnic tradition was suppressed for a time by tsarist authorities, early Russian explorers were able to document the practice. It was resurgent in the early years of the twentieth century as the boys were increasingly sought as entertainers by the new Russian (Orthodox) settlers, a practice criticized in the Central Asian Russian press of the tim...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1941607
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