BEIJING — Clad in knee-high leather boots, spandex shorts and a sports bra, Xiao Yan struck a pose two feet off the ground, her head glistening with sweat and her arms straining as she suspended herself from a vertical pole.
“Keeping your grip is the hardest part,” she said. “It’s really easy to slide downward.”
Ms. Xiao, 26, who works as a supermarket manager, is one of a growing number of women experimenting with China’s newest, and most controversial, fitness activity: pole dancing.
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...read more ,with pictures of Chinese pole dancing studios...
It's an interesting read, esp. w/ a lot of the talk in here about the ways the pole dancing has become part of the mainstream. What about it spreading without also the accompanying strip clubs? Just as a symbol of (sexy) Western fitness? I guess at this point it's been diluted like 3 degrees away. It's not about the strip club, it's following after pole dancing is taken out of the club and into Western gyms...



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