There is more to body language than meets the eye. Isn’t that an interesting way to put it? But I’m being serious.
One aspect of body language is proxemics, the study of spacial distances between people. How do people maintain their personal space, how do they interact with other people’s personal spaces? These are questions which reveal much about who is aggressive, submissive, open, closed, confident, fearful, overcompensating, and overreaching.…
Social dancing has been described as having sex in a standing position. The body movements in many social dances reveal the details of their origins. For example, if you watch couples dancing the “dirty” Bachata dance style, they are obviously emulating sexual activity. The “clean” Bachata dance style is not nearly as intimate. The man stands further away from his partner, he doesn’t gyrate nearly as suggestively, and it’s just a fun little dance you could teach your kids without wondering what they’ll be up to.…
