So this Halloween I didn't bother coming up with any great costume, I just put on a bellydance outfit & went off to a block party downtown where just about every woman that walked by me was wearing (or hardly wearing I should say) skin tight impossibly short skirts (among other things), pasties on top, or cleavage baring or such sundry scandalous attire. I commented to my friends "Geez- Kona girls have sure gotten slutty haven't they?"
Everyone around me started doing the milk-snort sort of laugh implying not so subtly that I, myself, looked quite slutty.
I thought about it for a minute and supposed that even though sporting a 20 pound bra and several skirts & belts, my midriff revealed and skantily clad upper half could suggest a somewhat slutty exterior.
Funny how after belly dancing for years and having a deeply felt respect for the dance could prevent me from acknowledging the reality that most bellydance attire is, in fact, rather racy. It is just so dignified and elegant and tasteful in my mind that I hardly view it as such.

Sometimes ya just gotta put your foot in your mouth.

But you can judge for yourself- do you think my costume was slutty?