I am an aspiring Stripper. In an attempt to make myself feel like one I began pole dancing classes at the start of this year. When I arrived for my first class I expected to see thighs spilling out of thongs and bums propped up by high heels, but I found yummy-mummy's with honey-coloured highlights and bio-oiled, post-baby stretch marks.
On the walls were brochures which read 'Pole-dancing has well and truly spilled out of the gentleman's clubs and gone mainstream for all the right reasons. We want to take away the sleazy side of pole dancing.'
What the instructor seemed to misunderstand was that I wanted to look and feel like a stripper, not like someone doing yoga around a pole.
It appears as though pole dancing has become infiltrated by middle class mums who seek to erase its cultural origins in erotic dance.
What do people think about the desexualisation of pole dancing? And the hostility of many people using pole dancing as a sport against strippers?
Thanks for all your help <3



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it's no fun without the sleaze. heh.

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