Posted on 12/04/2019 2:30:27 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
When you think of pole dancing, surely you do not think of it as a sport for young children rather than a sexually explicit activity that takes place in dark, seedy nightclubs. Apparently, this isn’t a ubiquitous option anymore, though.
In the U.K., controversy erupted from those who still consider pole dancing to be entirely inappropriate for children after three young girls did a demonstration on ITV’s This Morning in which they showed off the “skills” they’ve learned while attending Pole Intentions classes in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.
These classes are being defended by instructors and governing sports bodies alike, shockingly. Pole Intentions instructor, Zoe Hardy, claims the classes are about sport and are not sexual while the International Pole Sports Federation claims that these types of classes “help train future athletes,” according to a report by the BBC.
“Children are our future pole sports athletes and just like any sport we need to train our athletes from a young age,” a spokesperson for the International Pole Sports Federation said. The federation itself has been featuring children in the World Pole Sports Championships for the last three years and they also have a course dedicated to training children in the “sport” of pole dancing called the Youth Pole Sports Coaching course.
This is akin to Drag Queen Story Hours. We’re supposed to just believe there is nothing inappropriate about grown men dressed as women reading books to children just like we are supposed to just accept that pole dancing is a sport and there is nothing sexual about children participating! Yeah, right.
Instructor Zoe Hardy believes if adults “perceive the activity as being a sexual thing it is ‘in their own head,’” according to the BBC.
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Oh.....I GET IT!!!!! No Poles dancing!!
;^)
Someone pinged me on that before it was pulled but i emailed the person and they sent me the article.
odd to say the least :)
Strip clubs are for morons.
LOL!
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