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Pole Dancing - The New Foreplay?

Pole Dancing - The New Foreplay?

It's not just for professional strippers anymore. Pole dancing has become an accepted form of exercise and possibly the new foreplay - if you dare.

Community Blog: The Feminist Side Of Pole Dancing

Community Blog: The Feminist Side Of Pole Dancing

Pole dancing is a controversial sport.It's hard to do; you have to have excellent core and upper body strength, and you have to be fairly coordinated. But it’s also undeniably erotic. Watching it immediately conjures up sexual thoughts for men, and most likely even for some women. It is inexorably linked to exotic dancing, otherwise known as stripping. Therein lies the feminist dilemma.

My Life as a (Pretend) Stripper

My Life as a (Pretend) Stripper

I didn’t want to be a stripper. Really, I have no idea what I wanted from the exotic dance class I’d enrolled in at an adult education center.  I didn’t know whether the course catalog’s promise to help “create a full repertoire of floor-routine and chair moves you can use in enticing performances” was an achievable or even worthwhile goal.  But there I was in a leotard and stilettos, undulating my hips against an inert and perfectly innocent chair. The first order of business on day one was to pick our stripper names.  The gaggle of married lady friends in matching pink leotards seemed to be in a geographical mood, seeing as how they chose names like Savannah, Sierra and Asia.  The mousy woman recently dumped by her boyfriend chose Sexy Sadie because it was her ex’s favorite Beatles song.  The pretty but uptight Indian woman apparently didn’t grasp the smutty aspect of the renaming process because she replaced her

The Pole Dancing Must Go On

The Pole Dancing Must Go On

Pennsylvania ponders what's a "sexually-oriented business"?

With a name like "SeXXXercise," it was sure to raise some eyebrows. And now dance school owner Stephanie Babines has more free publicity than she ever could have hoped for: Babines filed a lawsuit against officials in Butler County, PA, for refusing to let her operate a dance studio featuring pole-dancing classes. The SeXXXercise classes, part of the so-popular-right-now pole dancing trend, would be women-only with no spectators aloud.