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    So my friend was telling me that can catch diseases while dancing on a pole. Is this true?

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    Default Re: While dancing on a pole....

    um, maybe staph/MRSA but other than that I can't think of anything aside from a rash from dirt hitting any freshly shaved areas.

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    Default Re: While dancing on a pole....

    What staph or mrsa?

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    Default Re: While dancing on a pole....

    Staph infection or mrsa, which is a drug-resistant strain of staph. Alcohol is your friend here, many clubs keep a spray bottle & rag(s) at the back of the stage so each girl can clean the pole. If your club doesn't, start bringing your own. Not only will the alcohol help sanitise the pole, but it will clean off sweat & any lotion that a previous dancer might have been foolish enough to have on.

    On a side note: I wore fingerless workout gloves for a few yrs dancing, since sm clubs don't allow you to use liquid chalk-type grip aides for polework. When I stopped wearing them my hands blistered & eventually formed calluses, which was a good thing, but the blisters oozed when they were irritated until they toughened up. At those times I would wear the gloves again (since I couldn't bandage them), both to prevent the leakage from getting on the pole that other girls would be touching & to keep from catching anything they might have.

    Just clean the pole religiously, keep your bottoms on while doing polework (even in a nude club) & you should be fine.

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    Default Re: While dancing on a pole....

    Quote Originally Posted by jazzybear08 View Post
    What staph or mrsa?
    Basically germs that live on your skin that can cause an infection.

    When I was a new dancer I had the same concern. I was worried about touching the poles because everyone else has touched them and who knows where they have been. While I have not caught anything from the pole itself, the pole is dirty as fuck. I usually wash my hands after I get off stage unless I am really busy and have to go hustle, but I try to make a point not to touch anywhere on my face or any place that might be a port of entry for germs. Same thing with touching money, also dirty as fuck.

    I do have to say though that if you work in a smaller club it is probably easier to catch a cold once one starts going around. And I've seen some really disgusting girls who don't cover their mouth when they cough and just cough into the air in the dressing room. Some dumbass I had the misfortune of working with noticed that I kept washing my hands after coming down from stage on a slower night and she asked me how I was even a stripper since I liked to keep myself clean. Well let me tell you, one night my face got a little too close to the pole one night and I caught a faint waft of vagina coming off that thing.

    Honestly unless you have some serious problems with your immunity, I wouldn't sweat it too much. Wash your hands since that's the best prevention and keep your fingers away from your face. I had a friend one time who would get down from stage and then would put her fingers in her mouth to fiddle around with one of her teeth that was bothering her...yikes!

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    Default Re: While dancing on a pole....

    Quote Originally Posted by Aniela View Post
    Alcohol is your friend here, many clubs keep a spray bottle & rag(s) at the back of the stage so each girl can clean the pole. If your club doesn't, start bringing your own. Not only will the alcohol help sanitise the pole, but it will clean off sweat & any lotion that a previous dancer might have been foolish enough to have on.
    Oh yes, this is a good one, I forgot to mention this. Quite a lot of clubs do this and it won't be out of the ordinary if you ask for something to wipe the pole down with. Otherwise like I said I wouldn't sweat it too much and this is coming from someone who loves to do some polework.

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    Default Re: While dancing on a pole....

    Unless you are licking the pole or rubbing you naked vagina on a dirty pole, I wouldn't worry too much. I especislly wouldn't worry about MRSA too much. People with MRSA (a nasty strain of staph) are usually really fucking sick and in the hospital, not dancing on a stripper pole. Something like 90% of people who get MRSA were either really, really sick to begin with or got it during a hospitalization. Infectious agents that can live fomites (surfaces outside a host) are more likely to be things like influenza, pink eye, lice, a cold virus, shit like that, at the strip club. There's always a possibility that someone could bring in something craxy, I guess. But it's not likely.

    Like the other ladies said, wash your hands and you should be good. And keep the pole clean too.

    Oh, and you are WAY more likely to pick up something from touching a customer or whoever. Skin to skin contact way more likely to be the transmission method of most of the bugs that live in the SC.

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    Default Re: While dancing on a pole....

    I bring a super tiny spray bottle of rubbing alcohol that fits in my purse. when I first get to the club I go around the stage and wipe down all the poles and railings, its a huge stage/bar. People see me cleaning and think its cute. Diseases eh, but slimy body lotion and baby oil is much more likely to be a problem. Ill wipe all that stuff off quick and then spray the poles again if I feel like they aren't grippy anymore throughout the nite. Safety and sanitary at the same time, and people notice and thank you.

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    Default Re: While dancing on a pole....

    Not trying to disagree, but bacteria like staph / MRSA can live on surfaces for much much longer than a virus like the flu. Viruses can't reproduce outside of a host cell so they only live on a surface for about 2-8 hours, where as a bacteria can live on a surface for days. You really shouldn't worry too much if you clean the pole and don't touch it with open / broken skin. Staph and even MRSA "colonize" people's skin, esp. in the nasal area, and they can live with it perfectly fine. It is when the bacteria grows out if control that you become infected, so as long as you're not making an abrasion on your skin against a dirty pole without washing afterwards you will likely be ok.

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