Belly Dancing....Alluring or Dumb?

So, my friend Terralyn and I are taking Belly Dancing classes. The class is one night per week for the next 6 weeks. I had my first class last night and I'm not sure how I feel about it. As I drove to the lesson last night, I was hoping that it would be an interesting way to get a different workout. But as it turns out, I didn't break a sweat and my stomach muscles aren't even sore today. In addition to that, as I looked around the room of women doing all the "sultry" and "sexy" moves, I decided that belly-dancing doesn't make any of us look sexy whatsoever. We looked more like a group of women trying to synchronize swim....except, of course, we weren't actually swimming. And come to think of it, we weren't in synch, either. Ok, I take it back....we looked like a bunch of women dancing really badly. But perhaps I just need to give it more of a chance. I just find it hard to believe that me trying to shimmy my hips around is going to turn out positively.