What Are Some Myths About Belly Dance?
4 min readFeb 1, 2019
There are many myths and misconceptions about the women’s dances of the Middle East. Here are the ones I hear most often:
Belly-Dance is some sort of sex dance performed by “harem girls” for some sort of “sheik” or “sultan.”
Belly Dance is a woman’s dance. At one time it was done by “harem girls” but not for the sultan. Harems were full of women of all ages, who sang…