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Women competing for Argentina's Miss Pole Dance Sudamerica 2009 performed in downtown Buenos Aires yesterday. Pole dancing competitions have taken off in the US too, and some of you previously took issue with the fact that a highly sexualized activity is now a competitive sport. Still, you have to admit that these women are showing off some serious skill.
Get Ready For the First California Pole-Dance Championship
I have no doubt that pole dancing, as a press release for California's first pole-dance championship next month puts it, "requires strength, agility, flexibility, and endurance." Nor do I believe that pole dancing is "just posing against a pole" but rather involves "spinning, inverts, climbing, and power holds."
But what does it mean to elevate to a sport an act that originated in strip clubs and which symbolizes a woman's role as a sex object?
Say What? Strip Club Tells Miley to Come Back in a Few Years
"While Miley did show off some skills, we at SCORES cannot encourage this kind of behavior for women under the legal age. If she'd like to come try out in a couple of years, our door's open!"
— Ed Norwick, the general manager of NYC gentleman's club Scores, says that even he cannot condone tween Miley Cyrus's pole dancing performance seen on last night's Teen Choice Awards.
Pole Dancers Reach For Olympic Gold
From the stripper pole to the Olympic podium? Proponents of "pole fitness" want more respect, and perhaps a gold medal would help. In an interview with Marie Claire, dance instructor Collette Kakuk, cofounder of the Pole Fitness Association, makes a case for pole dancing as an Olympic sport.
US Pole Dancing Competitions
I've taken an S-Factor Pole Dancing class, so I'll be the first to say that it is quite a workout. It requires strength, flexibility, coordination, balance, stamina, and did I say strength? I know many women are into pole dancing as a workout, and even celebs like Teri Hatcher and Kate Hudson have raved about it.
Kendra Wilkinson's "Sports Poles": Cool or Not?
Is the stripper workout here to stay? Former girl next door Kendra Wilkinson is banking on it. Hugh Hefner's sporty ex-girlfriend has created a proprietary line of stripping equipment that she's calling "sports poles."
Another Stripper Bites the Dust
Who manufactures and installs these lame stripper poles? There's now a whole new genre of video that shows hard-workin' pole dancers practicing their craft at home, only to have the poles collapse by the end of their routines. Since this is happening so much, just to spice things up, they could incorporate a comedy routine into their shows at the strip joints where they work.
Would You Tell Your Bosses About Your Pole-dancing?
While pole-dancing workouts have become pretty mainstream with studios popping up in cities and suburbs everywhere, a 23-year-old personal assistant to bank executives was the subject of a Bloomberg news article titled, "Pole-Dancing Classes Lure Eager Women Bankers in City of London." There's no twist to this young woman's story, she's simply a pole-dancing instructor outside of her 9-to-5 job.
Described as a "statuesque blonde," Victoria Gibbs says that her bosses never ask if they can watch her perform: "No, they're very reserved: senior executive private bankers and the people I deal with are at the senior levels, so they've never asked anything untoward about my classes."
A Bachelorette Party that Burns Calories, Not Brain Cells
Some bachelorette parties go a little something like this: Gather. Drink. Pile into limo.
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Cuz when we ladies see a pole, we just can't help ourselves-- right?
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