Pole dancing popular new form of exercise
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Gyms are adding pole dancing as a form of exercise:
In school uniform, suspenders and high heels, she struts confidently around the pole, hooks her leg around it and swings to the ground before rippling back up. Flicking her long hair aside, she pauses to glance over her shoulder at the audience. …
Some feminists don’t like it.
“If you come from a secure economic background and you’ve got education then it isn’t such a big thing to play with sex tourism, said Paula Black, a sociology lecturer at Sussex University. “If you don’t then your status is very different.”
The latest craze in erotic dancing doesn’t change the way men look at women’s bodies as sex objects and puts pressure on women to achieve in yet another area, she said.
“It’s not always about throwing off inhibitions. It’s almost like we see sex as a hobby. It’s something we have to get right.”
Nice hobby. And serious consequences for getting it wrong.
