“My Salsa Dance Teacher Keeps Grabbing My *ss”

Salsa dancing can be a very erotic and sensual dance. The success of the Salsa dance industry depends on Salsa professionals and their clients to know and adhere to the Salsa dance “rules of engagement” at all times. The problem of Salsa dance teachers and dance school owners trying to seduce their students is something that is seemingly quite impossible to eradicate completely.

In “normal” societies, most men will choose to be friendly or to have a friendly relationship with a beautiful girl or woman with the possibility of (casual) sex in the back of their minds. These misguided men may know that their ultimate goal is impossible to achieve, but the notion that there is a slight chance for them of one day “getting some” will keep their hunter's instincts alive and kicking. Salseros have yet a bigger problem. They interact physically, sometimes on a daily basis, with several beautiful girls in a Salsa classroom or on the Salsa dance floor who – as they themselves say so often - “just want to dance”. The ability of many male Salsa dancers to clearly distinguish between girls dancing just for the sake of dancing or girls flaunting for sexual favors can be heavily tested whilst dancing a steamy & sexy   Salsa Romantica, Bachata, Kizomba or Brazilian Zouk.

Sometimes women dancing Salsa have to go over great lengths and cross their own civil boundaries to convince these men that they only want to dance, and nothing else.

The problems Salseras have with turning horny men down get even worse when they are being hunted (or chased) by their own male Salsa dance teachers or dance school owners. This relationship, which is largely based on trust, is a very delicate one. A Salsera who prefers to remain anonymous told me about her problems with her former Salsa dance instructor, “My Salsa dance teacher keeps grabbing my ass when we're dancing together. I told him I'm not interested but he keeps doing it. What else can I do?” she asked.

My anonymous Salsa dancer is one of many undocumented female Salsa students who are confronted on a weekly basis with their well respected and idolized teachers sexually harassing them “out of the blue”. They find it very difficult to convince their “Salsa Guru's” that they are not interested in sex. Chances are that some Salseras will choose to let the sexual intimidation go on if their Salsa teacher is also one of the few good Salsa dancers in town.

I want to give one advice to all Salseras experiencing this problem at this very moment: he's NOT worth it! Talk about it with other Salsa students and/or Salsa dance professionals. Exposure is the best weapon to use against these Salsa predators.