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A Very Sad Day
Arthur Charleston, the man who invented lap dancing in the late 1950s, has died in his home in Pasadena.
The man who made it possible for middle-aged men to have intimate contact with sexy 18 year-olds, without cheating on their wives, claims he came up with the idea after visiting Finland's Lapland region, where he saw native peoples perform their traditional dances.
In a 60 Minutes interview filmed the year before his death, Charleston claimed "the phrase Lap dancing somehow got stuck in my crawl, and I began wondering if a 'lap dance', a dance on one's lap, could be feasible."
Years of experiments led to both failure and a six month prison term for public indeceny, but the dogged Charleston pushed on with his research, eventually perfecting what we now call the modern heavy-grind lap dance. Initially envisioned as an exercise regimen for shut-ins, the lap dance's potential as entertainment soon became apparent, and Charleston spent much of his time promoting his invention and training sexy 18 year-olds.
Paradoxically, Charleston never made any money off his invention, forcing him to retain his job as head of fluid dynamics at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory until his retirement at age 65. However, he was never bitter about this. "If I can help sexy 18 year-olds make $60,000 a year," he said in an interview, "that's all the reward I need."
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My hero...lol ! ;D
How much did he pay for the LDs? If nothing else, I would definitely have offered to be an assistant on that one. Imagine the suffering and hardship he had to go through. LMAO!
Thanks for finding that
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that is really sad! thanx for sharing that bit of history.....
I think its important that dancers know where our current day jobs have spawned from...
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Is this really serious???
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Shouldn't you have posted this yesterday?
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Wow! I had no idea about the history of lap dancing ! So.. in the scheme of things.. lap dancing isn't even a century old ? My goodness it is amazing how much it has 'grown' as such.
Then again, you only have to look at the progress of technology today to see that we humans can easily adapt to new things.
;D Thank you Mr. Charleston !