Oh, Mi Buenos Aires Querido! What a way to get more cliche to talk about this city, is not it? But there's nothing better to explain it: darling, just darling. Spent forty years in this city in January, on my second visit to the land of Buenos Aires, Julianna and suggested I write about eroticism and Argentina. I, of course, I accepted at the time, because the passion for two topics is almost the same (But let's split into three chapters are awaiting the next two).

Photo: Victor Von

The capital of hermanos pulses at a rate different from the rest of the country, which has two very clear sides, one being the Argentine agricultural hinterland, and other outmoded the glamor of Buenos Aires, which has a life of its own, its own culture. And the erotic? Well, the eroticism in Buenos Aires also has two faces, the art and reality.

The erotic reveals itself slowly in the eyes of us, Brazilians, accustomed to the panache of asses Saturday afternoon on TV. When I heard that the tango, Buenos Aires cultural heritage, had an erotic but what I never understood why. Understandable, after all the little tango that reaches us is a surreal acrobatics leg ala Moulin Rouge and even being in the city, which most tourists, especially the Brazilians, is watching a show, something false, produced. Hence my strength in knowing more background music and dance, twisting his nose when someone suggested a "tanguinho" night. But joined forces and decided to face the pre-concept and went to a milonga (place to dance tango) little frequented mostly by Argentines in my beloved San Telmo called "Damn Milonda" (I confess that the name was what most excited me !). And when I saw, live and without staging, couples dancing to the tango orchestra that played at last I could understand where she was the erotic and I was deeply touched. The couple floats drawing on the floor with your feet something that resembles a silent procession of animal mating and voracious, but with an elegance that only those with blue blood and white can be. Who controls the situation is man, master and conductor, almost a master who manipulates his slave (appropriating me of sado-madoquistas classifications) that, with the head slightly leaning on him all the time dancing with eyes closed, in a total delivery of yourself and your body. Tango is so erotic that, paraphrasing the speech of a friend of mine who danced beautifully, "the tango is dangerous because it has the power to turn ugly into beautiful people in beautiful and ugly."

References
http://www.elafronte.com.ar/ - typical tango orchestra that every Monday and Wednesday at Maldita Milonga. Address and information on the site.

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