I’m going to sound a bit wild here I don’t think pole dancing is intrinsically evil. It is actually really difficult and requires a lot of strength and practice. Pretty healthy form of exercise to do. Unfortunately it is just happens very sexualized, which is sad. If somebody wants to do it in their own home it’s probably fine, though.
I tend to agree with this. It’s a workout technique that builds strength and control.
Variations of workouts on the pole have been performed in circuses for decades; another variation would be a workout on a rope (remember the joys of trying to climb a rope back in high school?! Not easy!).
In the olden days, a performer named Eli Bowen, who was born with no legs, performed a beautiful routine on a pole, using his powerful arms to perform various maneuvers. I have a picture of him doing this routine, but I can’t find that picture online.
Yes, it’s too bad that pole dancing has become sexualized, but so have many other things. The fact remains that it’s a good workout.
When you think about it (but don’t think too much about it), sports like gymnastics, especially the routines on the beam and the bars, could be considered “sexy” depending on who is performing the routine. Nowadays, so many of the female gymnasts are tiny little women with a petite figure. But get someone like Tracee Talavera on that beam…she was from a different era in gymnastics when it was OK to be tall and womanly.
My biggest problem with the JLo show were the costumes that were just too flesh-baring. Not necessary at all, even in Miami. People can still live the beach life with a little more skin covered up. But I have noticed that even in church, many of the Latino women routinely wear revealing dresses (cleavage, legs, belly, etc.), and it does seem to be a part of Latino culture, and I’m not sure that it means “sexuality” in that culture. I would hesitate to criticize something that might just be normal and modest in another culture.
Remember the Victorian era, which was about as repressive as it gets–but the women’s dresses, which were stifling in the amount of material used and the number of layers under the dress (a corset, several petticoats, at times hoops when they were in style, etc.)–but the bosom was very prominently revealed, even in elderly women! It always shocks me!
Humans seem to vary from age to age with what is considered sexy!
