Why is Baby scared of never feeling this way again? -- 6

Baby Houseman has come to Johnny Castle's cabin in the middle of the night. She tells him she has come to apologize for how he was treated by her father.

In fact, though, the primary reason why Baby has come is that she hopes for a sexual experience with Johnny. This has been her hope all day.

Johnny allows Baby to come into his cabin. He offers her a chair, and he sits in another chair. Johnny and Baby talk -- first about her father, then about his precarious financial situation and then about her apparent confidence.

Baby perceives that the conversation is going the wrong way. Johnny is not acting confidently and aggressively toward her. He is not flirting with her sexually. He is not moving closer toward her, is not touching her.

Baby is scared.

Baby is scared that Johnny will end the conversation. He will tell her that he has to get up early tomorrow for a long day of work. He will tell her that she should go back to her room now, because her father might check that she is there in bed.

Baby is scared that Johnny now will walk her to the door, will thank her again for replacing Penny at the Sheldrake, and will say goodbye.

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Baby is sexually aroused with an intensity that she never has felt before. Her sexual arousal has been growing gradually during the days when she has been learning to dance with Johnny. She has become obsessed with sexual fantasies for the first time in her life.

Baby does not masturbate, and so she has not been able to release her arousal so that she can think calmly and rationally for a while.

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Her fantasies involve the possibility of pregnancy. Penny Johnson's dramatic pregnancy has been on Baby's mind.

Baby fantasizes about having sexual intercourse with Johnny and about being impregnated by him. Maybe she will defy her family and society and will give birth to Johnny's baby. Then Johnny might fall in love with her and might marry her, and she will be able to have sex with Johnny all the time for her entire life.

Baby will disappoint her parents, especially her father. Baby will have to give up her plans to graduate from college and to join the Peace Corps and to work in a professional career that will help people and improve our society.

For the first time in her life, Baby feels like a silly, subordinate, submissive woman. She no longer feels superior to the ordinary teenage girls who are boy-crazy, who want to use their sexual charms to excite a handsome adult male, who want to get pregnant and so get a marriage proposal from him, and who want to give birth and to stay home, raising the cute babies of the man she loves.

For the first time in her life, Baby now feels belatedly her own femininity. Baby is scared about her feminine future and fate. She too will submit sexually to a man and will become just one more of the World's inferior females -- doomed to the dangers of giving birth and to the tedium of raising babies.

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Baby's lust has taken over her mind. Baby loves Johnny passionately. She has come to Johnny's cabin, hoping that he will perceive that she wants him to seduce her and that he will do so.

Baby knows already that never again in her life will she ever again feel such an intense sexual arousal and never again will enjoy an opportunity to engage in a sexual experience with such a handsome, powerful, sexually skillful man with whom she has become comfortable and affectionate.

Such an opportunity for such a fantastic sexual experience surely will never happen again in her life.

It seems now, however, that the sexual experience will not happen. Johnny is about to end their conversation and about to send her back to her hotel room.

To make her sexual fantasy come true after all, Baby herself now must take the initiative to prompt him. She must express her vulnerability, so that he will take her sexually. She says to him:

I'm scared of everything! I'm scared of what I saw. I'm scared of what I did, of who I am.

But most of all, I'm scared of walking out of this room and never feeling for the rest of my life ... the way I feel when I'm with you!

Baby is scared that Johnny will respond:

No, it's late, I have to work tomorrow. You have to go back to your hotel room.

Baby is so scared that she ultimately is compelled to conquer her fear of his rejection. She gets up and says:

Dance with me.