it's the combination of dance and the gymnastics
plus you can't really take up gymnastics as a hobby, it's not like a drop-in drop-out kind of thing.

I know pole dancing is supposed to be sexualised and you can't be a professional pole dancer without being a stripper as the two just don't go together. Having said that, the bar I teach in have asked me to dance there on a Saturday night to advertise the classes and to keep people in the bar with the entertainment. Whilst I'd like to believe that people will stay to watch because they want to see an impressive form of dance, for the most part I know they'll just be perving.

I'm not one of these people who says that pole dancing is empowering and it's not sexy, it is, but to me it's only as sexy as watching girls doing salsa dancing and the like, it all depends on how you dance. My teacher was off sick one night and so her friend came and stood in and she was a lap dancer and she couldn't teach us any of the moves that our previous teacher had been working on, she just showed us how to grind and hump the floor and stuff, which wasn't what we were looking for.

Pole dancing was originally designed to be slutty and stuff, but it doesn't have to be, which is what these women bang on about when they say it's empowering, it's only as slutty as you want to make it. Some women in clubs grind all over the place like they're having sex with themselves, they don't even need a pole.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 16:59, Reply)