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The central concerns about dancing shared by moralists were “for the physical harm it occasioned, for the social and economic problems it engendered, and especially for the moral threat it posed.” [20] This third criticism, the moral threat, is the most fully explored antidance treatise topic, and can be further subdivided into the categories of desecration of the sacraments, illicit sexual activity, and profanation of the Sabbath and holy days. [21] Dancing as a moral threat will receive the most scrutiny in this paper, but the evidence of the physical and economic detriments of dancing will be considered first. [22]

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