Dance
Young men and young women may work systematically six days in the week
and rise fresh in the morning, but let them attend modern dances for only a
few hours each evening and see what happens. The Waltz, Polka, Gallop and
other dances of the same kind will be disastrous in their effects to both
sexes. Health and vigor will vanish like the dew before the sun.
It is not the extraordinary exercise which harms the dancer, but rather
the coming into close contact with the opposite sex. It is the fury of lust
craving incessantly for more pleasure that undermines the soul, the body,
the sinews and nerves. Experience and statistics show beyond doubt that
passionate excessive dancing girls can hardly reach twenty-five years of age
and men thirty-one. Even if they reached that age they will in most
instances be broken in health physically and morally. This is the claim of
prominent physicians in this country.
-- Quote from a 1910 periodical
A degenerated and demoralizing musical system is given a disgusting
christening as 'swing' and turned loose to gnaw away the moral fiber
of young people... Jam sessions, jitterbugs and cannibalistic rhythmic
orgies are wooing our youth along the primrose path to Hell!
-- the Archbishop of Dublique, 1938
Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire.
-- Lots of people
Try everything once except incest and folk dancing.
-- Sir Thomas Beecham