to have installed a pole dancing pole in my living room...?

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been having lessons for months now and decided to get one put in at home!

its amazing for fitness and so much fun, i have really toned up since doing it and i am thinking of possibly teaching it from home if i get good enough. and dp enjoys watching me practise although i reckon the novelty will probably wear off soon

my mum did a bit of a "cats bums mouth" when she first saw it though and dp darent even tell his mum i have got one! haha

Didn't the waltz start off as rather outre? (Acute on that e, btw) On account of the two dancers touch with their bodies (rather than only the hands.)

Yes, it did! The Church banned it throughour Europe & America. People used to go to secret waltzes

The Charleston, Jitterbug & Jive were also banned. At least pole dancing's legal nowadays - though I can imagine a few people getting annoyed if OP did it down the Community Hall disco.

Wouldn't that kind of depend on the OP having a moveable pole?

Doesn't pole dancing only have sexual connotations if its done in your undies whilst sticking your half naked butt into the laps and faces of men? Otherwise, fully clothed, its just another form of dance. In the same way that a woman dancing on a stage whilst removing her clothes is a stripper, clothes stay on, she's just a dancer. not sure I see the difference.

As many posters have said, dances were often about sex and seduction - waltz, tango, rumba, lambada, the list goes on.

Still wouldn't have a pole permanently up in my sitting room though, but nor would I have a treadmill, exercise bike or ballet barre.

Oh, what a surprise, chiabom is in favour of pole dancing. Since Chiabom is a bloke who thinks children watching pornography isn't a big deal, this is not so much of a shock.

Star2shame, you have not been paying attention. The OP has clearly said she isn't trying to be sexy, isn't trying to please her husband, isn't trying to get people to pay attention to her.

Why, it's almost as if you've looked past those protestations to the fact that she's installing a whacking great stripper's pole in her living room or something.

tortoise - isn't it only a strippers pole if she's doing, you know, some actual stripping???? Otherwise, its just a dance pole.

Vulgar in any room.

OMG Veena came on mn!!!!! Wow, I'm impressed. Veena, I love you! My first inspiration was you dancing to that Britney's gimme gimme or what ever its called.
The boys have just watched that fsmily clip, and they're btoth now really sad and asking why we took our pole down.

But the waltz was risque because it was two people doing it - a man and a woman - and it those days they thought it was rude to see two people dancing closely because in emulated sex.

It wasnt a sexist thing.

Pole dancing is something women do to entertain men.

Different entirely.

Rock Lobster! havent heard that song in ages

Sorry, as you were.

I'm looking into pole dancing lessons because of the fitness and toning side, I think its amazing!!!
If i were to buy one tho it'd go in my bedroom and only come into living room when I have the girls over or fancy some 'private time' with OH while our sons in bed FAST asleep.
Did you get a permanent one or one of the pressure fix ones??
xx

The video with the kids is one thing. How many would be happy for their 11-year old to be "dancing" like this:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZaHJTRKcu8&feature=related

No one is suggesting that children are encouraged by commission, but like monkey-see, monkey-do, they are all too impressionable.

There are enough pressures already on kids in society today without introducing any more.

The opposing sides on this debate will never see eye to eye, so it's best just to accept that some people have a different view.

If this form of exercise is limited to gyms & the home, to a point, then fine. When a windowless room is crammed with under-sexed blokes & plastic girls, I will object

its not "just a POle" is it
its a penis

but riven dontchagetit?
its sexY

in a culture where women were not by default considered the sex class, in a state of permanent consent to any and all sex, all the time, this would be a neutral decision

as it is

feel free to do it, but i ain't gonna cheer you on

i can't see what all the fuss is about, i am quite prudish but i watched the clip and it just looked like gymnastics with a bit of dance thrown in to me. I saw nothing sexual and actually was a bit in awe how talented she is. would you all be up in arms if you went with your children to the circus and saw the trapeze artists sliding and spinning on a rope ?

ocdgirl, its not about being prudish its about the sexist connotations of a pole.

ah well i was commenting on that clip and saw nothing i would think sexist

riven - it is highly aerobic and very very toning. The muscle tone required to hang upside down from a pole is considerable.

Still wouldn't do it in my front room though.

Veena - I had to stop watching your video 'cos I felt sick.

Sick with envy - I thought it was fantastic. I want a pole now so that I can get away with wearing short shorts too!!!

I think that some people have obv. got far too much time on their hands if they can get so outraged at how other people live their lives.

I'm surprised that there haven't been mentions about contacting SS/Police/Daily Mail yet...or suggestions that the OP's (and the other pole ladies) DH is controlling or summat.

Sexual connotations of a pole FFS. I've read some bollockery on here in my time but that takes the

it's them sexist firemen that do my nut in, sliding down a pole indeed, how very dare they don't they know how sexy that is ???

I think that trains and tunnels should be banned too.

VicarInATuTu: "it took me 6 bloody months to learn to pull 35kg...."

Have you tried body weight exercises? I've got a simple doorway chin up bar and use the 20 Chinup program 20 Chin Ups challenge.

When I started I could barely get myself up 1 inch off the ground and that was with jumping to give myself a start . I built it up to around 29 chin ups (built up out of 5 smaller sets) pulling up my own body weight (around 55kg). Though to be fair, that took me about 6 months too, not the 6 weeks the program suggests!

I've certainly been advised that own body weight exercises are better long term though as it's a more fluid and natural movement than lifting weights at the gym. So you end up with more useable muscle.