I’m still collecting blog snippets that mention square dancing (and contra dancing, but square dancing is much more of a cultural icon, so it gets used in contexts outside of “I went to the contra dance last night…”). This leads me to some pretty weird stuff, like this porn story featuring square dancing: Hoedown

Warning: this link really does contain lesbian porn. It’s fairly light-hearted, but it is explicit. It also features the caller in a dominant role, with the dancers as submissives.

It’s the whole context that I found interesting. Here’s the inro (no porn here):

I’ve never been much on modern square dancing. It’s all slick and commercial

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, the caller ends up sounding like some silly kid who writes bad lyrics. In fact, other than a few basic instructions, it’s choreographed, and everyone just learns the steps. Once you learn it, it’s just the same thing over and over.

That’s why our club decided to go traditional. In a traditional square dance, the caller is the final authority. You have to learn the way the caller thinks, learn to communicate… because the caller can tell you to do anything, and it’s what you have to do. That’s where a square dancing club really takes on a challenge. And since we wanted to compete at a national level, we decided we should really go for it. Our only change from the old days is that we allowed women to call dances, too.

Modern is repetitive and traditional is made up? Competition on a national level? Like I said, weird! (BTW, so you don’t have to follow the link to see what happens, Mistress Rochelle comes to call a dance, gets all the men to go away, and calls the women into an orgy. There’s no clever use of real square dance calls…just a peripheral dosado and promenade.)