Jessica on Pole Dancing

the title is probably going to be the closest I'll ever be to that phrase ever in my life.


So I read an article talking about how pole dancing is basically a sport. Me, being the stereotypical Catholic girl, thinks otherwise, but only for a few reasons.

My main problem with pole dancing is the image that comes to mind when the phrase is even uttered. Ginormous (possible fake) boobs on an incredibly skinny woman stripping down to practically nothing, or maybe even completely to nothing, in a club somewhere. That's my problem. Pole dancing = sluts/whores/prostitutes in my mind. You sell your body for money and you can't say that's not what they are doing, since yes, they do get paid and yes, they will stick your thrown money into their bras or G-strings, depending on how classy this lady may be.

I think if pole dancing was done more tastefully, I wouldn't have such a problem with it. The women REALLY don't need to be in some stupid G-string and bra to dance attractively. It's like thinking, "I should just breathe air for a week, so I can lose weight." It's idiotic. You can eat more healthy, if weight is the issue, just like if you wanna dance attractively, you don't have to wear the bare minimum. You could wear a bra that actually supports your chest and underwear that isn't like some welcome sign for the nearest penis.

Yes, I will admit I could never pole dance. Why? I'm not athletically fit enough and I don't handle bruising well. Last thing I'd ever want to do is attempt to pole dance and get bruises everywhere on my body because I can't hold on to the pole whatsoever. I also have this sense of awkwardness whenever anything sexual like that comes up. I can't even handle looking at the mature manga section, because I find it embarrassing and weird to see that sort of thing. Gotta love Catholicism.

Despite the fact that you need to have tremendous body strength to pole dance, it's still just pole dancing. I'm pretty sure the vast majority of the male population want it to be a sport, so it's televised more often, if it is at all, but they wouldn't look at it as a sport. It's still sexual in a way that other sports aren't. Take beach volleyball for instance. This is considered sexual, because it's a sport involving women, but have you actually seen a match on TV? There's really nothing that sexual about four muscular, and I mean muscular, women with bigger arm and leg muscles than most normal guys. I see the appeal of women in bikinis duking it out over a ball, but at the same time, ESPN or whoever covers that when it's in the Olympics, doesn't hype up the fact these women are sex objects. That's only for the magazines and still images.

God, that's a separate rant altogether..

I think places that offer pole dancing classes, although sketchy, are a happy medium, because I'm assuming a majority of the women who go to these classes go for their significant others or husbands. That's perfectly fine. You wanna pole dance for your husband and spend copious amounts of money installing a sturdy pole into your house, then go for it. For me, the second it leaves the privacy of the home, it gets too slutty and immoral to be considered an "art" or a legitimate sport.

And that is my two cents on the matter =]