# Would you let your 12-year old daughter take pole dancing classes?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 16, 2018, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-let-your-12-year-old-daughter-take-pole-dancing-classes/808926 "2018-02-16T14:26:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-let-your-12-year-old-daughter-take-pole-dancing-classes/808926/81 "2018-02-22T00:43:51Z")

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No way, no how. Young girls are sexualized and objectified enough in contemporary culture. Encouraging them to imitate strippers is quite disturbing IMO, despite the rhetoric about empowerment or whatever. Pole dancing is a particularly extreme example of this trend, but even mainstream dance classes often seem to include choreography that I think is inappropriate for children.

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