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Lunch with passion in Gitanos, La Boca, Buenos Aires.

The tango was probably conceived in Buenos Aires' La Boca district in the 1880's by working-class immigrants of Italian or Spanish extraction. The dance, originally a form of male bonding and a way to alleviate the boredom while waiting for the attention of prostitutes, the tango soon developed into a macho sexual prelude, a dramatic and dominant hors d'oeuvre with a paid partner.
Naturally the upstanding and Victorian citizens of BA, Porteños, were outraged by this disgusting display of outright sensuality, but younger members of the high society took the dance to their hearts and then to the world so that by 1913 it had become a respectable - though still sensuous - world famous dance. The golden age of tango had arrived.

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