I came across an interesting (or disturbing, depending on your point of view) article, about a mother who was filmed apparently teaching her daughter, a toddler, how to pole dance.
Out of an abundance of caution, I will adhere to the 2-click rule.
The video is pretty poor quality; if you don’t want to watch it, you really won’t be missing too much.
There are a lot of people who are defending the mother, saying that pole dancing is primarily exercise, and any sexual connotation depends on the circumstances. For what it’s worth, there are a surprising number of videos on YouTube that show girls who are young teenagers or younger doing pole dancing.
IMHO it is indeed inherently sexual. The original pole dancers were ladies in clubs entertaining the (primarily) male audience, simulating actions to arouse the clientele.
For younger women (and kids) to engage in such activities now is beyond ridiculous. You want your kids to get fit? Take them to gymnastics or swimming classes fer’ god’s sakes. Don’t get them rubbing their pelvises up and down a metal pole…:dubious:
Pole dancing has gone mainstream and when done in homes and exercise gyms is no more sexual than any other kind of dancing. It is a real workout (or so I’m told), and it looks like it.
I don’t really think anything is inherently sexual other than sex itself. Pole dancing is certainly historically and culturally sexual though and it is incredibly naive to have a video of a decidedly non sexual child dancing in a way that makes many people think of sex and not expect viewers to feel uncomfortable about it. Good way to get a video to go viral though, yay social media!
Is not dancing itself a mating behaviour? You demonstrate by your grace, elegance, fitness, etc that you are a fit mate. Pity the poor clod with two left feet who can’t remember the steps.
I’m going to say it’s inherently sexual, despite what the empowered mummy brigade say.
There’s no reason something can’t be inherently sexual and also great exercise/fitness, though - but I also think it’s disingenuous to do something with such a traditionally strong sexual connotation and complain when people draw said connotation, much as IMHO it’s disingenuous for an attractive woman to wear a really low-cut, breast-enhancing top to a bar and then get mad when people notice.
It is sexual. But in a parallel world it might not be.
After all, look at rope dancing. It’s basically a more advanced form of pole dancing with out the sexual stigma.
It can be a beautiful display of athleticism and grace or it can be (and usually is) a beeotch grinding her crotch against it. The latter is what makes it *seem *inherently sexual but I don’t think it necessarily is.
A few years ago I spent an evening going to to different strip clubs with my boyfriend, hoping to see some good pole dancing but I all I saw was a some pole . . . swinging / grinding and a whole lot of twerking (gag).
I agree with the general opinion and I actually never even understood why adult women want to play unpaid stripper for fun, but that’s their own choice, at least.
I wouldn’t want to “play stripper”, i.e. let anyone but my unfortunate cat see me doing it, but I would love to be in good enough shape to do it. A local dance studio offers classes but I haven’t worked up the nerve to check it out.
The International Pole Sports Federation is trying to get it into the Olympics. If you look at their videos and images, what they’re doing is no more sexual than gymnastics or figure skating.
It can be sexual - but whether or not it is depends on the dancing and the environment.
Around here they do, but it’s done in the context of a circus camp where participants learn various acrobatics of the sort you’d see at a circus and put on performances. I guess changing the name makes it OK.
