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    I came across this YouTube video of this young girl doing her thing using two poles.

    part of me is like wtf. On one hand, I'm thinking This kid is 8 and Pole dancing seems like a sensual art for adults and whether it's nude or non nude it still doesn't seem like a kid should be pole dancing for the simple fact American society has deemed it sexual.

    On the other hand I'm like well her movements are more gymnastic-like and not the same as Bubbles popping p on the pole.

    is this something like a cultural thing where it's more Acceptable for kids to pole dance in these countries or am I just a prude? Is kids dancing on the pole a gateway to strip club exotic pole dancing?

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LayO1wW-b2o
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    Default Re: Should Kids Be Pole Dancers?

    In a perfect world this would be innocent and cute but there are ugly things out there.

    Gateway? probably not. I'd be more worried the kid would be targeted by pedophiles. This has a different appearance than gymnastics.


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    Default Re: Should Kids Be Pole Dancers?

    Interesting.

    I'm wondering what the people who marked "depends" mean?
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    Default Re: Should Kids Be Pole Dancers?

    I think that some people put depends because it could boil down to cultural differences. A lot of people on that youtube video did not think that was sexual and felt it was just wholesome dancing. Personally, I find her performance to be non-sexual but it could be shocking to some people. It is like seeing child bellydancers for the time. It is strange to see at first but it might be seen as wholesome in their own culture. It just might not be seen as so wholesome in America

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    Interesting.

    I'm wondering what the people who marked "depends" mean?
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    Okay that makes sense. I did notice they scrubbed the negative comments (which is understandable since it's a kid performing - and her friends may read it). And I guess YouTube doesn't think it's inappropriate since it's still up.

    I did think the girl could beat any adult pole dance competitor - hands down.

    I'm not sure what language or country that is. Is it Brazil?

    I'm assuming kids pole dancing is not popular in America or at least not this area because all the pole dance studios are adults only as far as I know.

    I also remember back when Kardashian show first came out and Kylie and Kendall were dancing on their moms pole in her bedroom and people were outraged.

    Also interesting you mention belly dancing. People here are so conservative they made a belly dancer cover up her stomach to perform in front of kids. I'm like wtf - it's just navel.

    I don't see belly dancing as sexual/sensual as pole dancing because well even though they're shaking their hips it's just idk more PG to me whereas pole dancing yeah you're stretching your legs all open for possible pussy print exposure, less clothes are worn, and I guess I cant get the image of horny men tipping pole dancers out my mind. Even though my rational mind sees a difference between sport pole and sensual pole - I think the fact the pole is in the strip club just makes it hard for me personally not to blur the two.

    Idk. This whole topic makes my head spin lol.
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    I put depends because there's nothing inherently sexual about doing gymnastics on an upright pole, depends on the moves they were doing?? But on the other hand, pole dancing was popularized and perfected in the stripclubs and ppl trying to appropriate it annoy me. So I'm torn.
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    I think it'd be hard to get away with teaching risque moves in a dance class for children so I think most parents would put their foot down if their child was doing a move they considered sexual. However, I also know that there are some parents (who probably shouldn't be) that allow their child to have plastic surgery that would be okay with sexual moves in kids dance. I'm thinking there probably real life versions of Regina George's mum.

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    I felt really uncomfortable watching that, lol. On the one hand, yes pole dancing is a beautiful sport and it requires a lot of skill, but on the other hand, we live in a culture where pole dancing is primarily done in strip clubs to give dudes boners. I don't think you can expect people to mentally separate the two enough to accept kids pole dancing. I'd like to be open-minded about it, but I'm only human and my instinct is to make it sexual. Also I would never let my kid pole dance if I were a parent, just for fear of the wrath and judgment of other parents.

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    Good exercise.

    A lot better for them than using drugs.

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    I say no, bc of the pedophiles. Although, it was an awesome performance. Also, would make me uncomfortable explaining to a child the history of that brass pole. Hell naw. Pick another sport please. Lol.

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    Default Re: Should Kids Be Pole Dancers?

    Quote Originally Posted by Vyanka View Post
    I say no, bc of the pedophiles. Although, it was an awesome performance. Also, would make me uncomfortable explaining to a child the history of that brass pole. Hell naw. Pick another sport please. Lol.
    Ahhh some common sense. *breathes sigh of relief*

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    Default Re: Should Kids Be Pole Dancers?

    Sorry but I question people that think this is ok.

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    Ikr. I just looked back at the poll. The results are not what I was anticipating....

    The anonymity is killing me because I can't help but think spam could be skewing the results. Or maybe I'm in denial.
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    My kid can't pole dance but that's because we're American and our current culture will sexualize her. I saw a video from Brazil or somewhere in the Caribbean of a group of elementary school kids dancing. They were jirrating and grinding on each other. Of course the Americans weren't paying enough attention to the fact they were in another country. They were busy looking for the number to CPS to report the adults standing around. It was demonizing a different cultures way of dance life and celebration.

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    Sure. Though posting videos of it online is a no go. It's great exercise and I think studios that teach it are safe places. If someone's worried about a gateway to sex/sexuality they should keep their child away from anything that can access the internet. Now personally I fully intend to be open and supportive of my kid and teach them what sex is instead of giving the stork story. Also there will be the condom on the banana, info on various forms of birth control, how babies develop, etc. Maybe I shouldn't do this all in one sitting though :-P

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    Hell no. This is a great treat for pedophiles and the dark underbellies of the internet.

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    This kind of reminds me of those young kids doing pageants.

    Their parents putting pounds of makeup, hair extensions, etc. parading them around in skimpy swimsuits/bikinis and making them look older than their age.

    I do think that while nothing the kids are doing is sexual there is that percentage of people that sexualize anything that looks and acts like an adult.

    It's sad the pedophiles can exist on earth and have to fuck everything up with their presence.
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    Quote Originally Posted by laurielegs View Post
    In a perfect world this would be innocent and cute but there are ugly things out there.

    Gateway? probably not. I'd be more worried the kid would be targeted by pedophiles. This has a different appearance than gymnastics.
    Quote Originally Posted by Vyanka View Post
    I say no, bc of the pedophiles. Although, it was an awesome performance. Also, would make me uncomfortable explaining to a child the history of that brass pole. Hell naw. Pick another sport please. Lol.
    Quote Originally Posted by arielbriel View Post
    Hell no. This is a great treat for pedophiles and the dark underbellies of the internet.
    I thought I heard something about pole dancing being a exhibition Olympic sport. Anywhoo

    It's a sad commentary of our society that such a beautiful, non-sexual performance could and would attract pedophiles and perverts because of it's association to strip clubs. Not appropriate for kids.

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    You make a good point Elektra - if pole dance is a sport it's natural for people who want to be good at said sport to start practicing when they are young kids.

    That girl was so good she's better than many adults I've seen. And it's easy to tell that her parents have had her practicing for a long time.

    Your last paragraph explains things well .... and yes it is sad.
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    From someone on the outside of the club life looking in seeing it as a sport, I can see how this question could come up.
    It was recently discussed to be potentially in the olympics, but personally I don't wanna see it go either route, I like my polers to be well over the threshold, don't want to be undressing someone with my eyes and then be disgusted with myself later :p

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    I was just thinking about this the other day since I've seen similar videos on instagram. I say no, it's weird. Because of pedophiles and also because, no matter how you slice it, when people see pole dancing they think stripping. Yes the kids are doing different moves than we do, but it's still too close. Probably the kids of those uppity "pole fitness not dirty gross strippers" types.

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    The particular video you posted, the little girl was extremely talented and proud of herself as well. I would have to say it is up to the individual family and their child.

    I am against sexualizing children in any way. Pageants where they have the little girls wear makeup- well beauty pageants in general make me sick; even for adults. There are main stream styles of dance (like jazz) where little girls sometimes gyrate their hips and young cheerleaders shaking their butts in really shirt skirts. The whole thing is wrong and gross.

    Sport, by it's very nature should be about athleticism and not a display of female sexuality; so if talking about pole as a sport it is one thing while the type of pole dancing done in clubs is erotic and something different in and of itself.
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    My answer is - not yet.

    There has been a push to have 'vertical dancing' recognized as an Olympics sport.

    https://www.rt.com/sport/362800-pole...g-at-olympics/

    When that happens, then, little girls of all ages can join in the sport, so long as it is seriously treated as a sport, and not eroticized (ballet outfits and ballet flats, not stripper outfits and high heels), like Gia said:

    Quote Originally Posted by Gia2608 View Post
    Sport, by it's very nature should be about athleticism and not a display of female sexuality; so if talking about pole as a sport it is one thing while the type of pole dancing done in clubs is erotic and something different in and of itself.
    However, I think there is still some way to go in this effort of turning it into a sport. It is still in a transition phase, and it looks very creepy for a little girl to work a pole,... and, even more creepy for adult males to want to watch.

    Imagine your 14-year old cheerleader daughter telling you - Cathy's dad is so cool! He brought all of us cheerleaders down to his basement where he had a stripper pole, and he encouraged all of us to dance on the pole. And,... haha,... Wendy thought it would be funny to take her top off like a stripper... and Cathy's dad thought that was funny, too!

    True story -

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    For now at least, I agree with LadyJezebel.

    Quote Originally Posted by LadyJezebel View Post
    I say no, it's weird. Because of pedophiles and also because, no matter how you slice it, when people see pole dancing they think stripping. Yes the kids are doing different moves than we do, but it's still too close. Probably the kids of those uppity "pole fitness not dirty gross strippers" types.
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    If it were my daughter, I would not not offer pole dancing as an extracurricular activity. Stick with gymnastics and the like. Although the performance was amazing and non sexual, pedophiles, as others have mentioned, would have a field day with this, and I would not want to put my daughter in such a position. Can't we keep adult things just for the adults?

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