by Sharon Early

Created on: December 14, 2010   Last Updated: December 15, 2010

There is so much misdirection, misinformation, and misunderstanding about pole dancing for fitness. Pole dancing professionally, and I do not mean in a strip club, or even taking your clothes off for the lusty attentions of stupid men. Though there is absolutely nothing wrong with making a living that way if you're okay with it and you have the temperament to deal with those drooling idiots. As I have experience with both environments; having worked both in gentlemen's clubs and as an instructor in a pole dancing studio teaching pole dancing for fitness to beginners, I feel qualified to at the very least to tell it like it really is, not how people who have never even seen a pole outside of a movie theater, think it is like.

Now since I am going to give it to ya with all the bark on it, I want you to simply come with an open mind and the understanding that strippers, dancers, performers of any type are people just like you. Dancers are not prostitutes or even loose women, if they were what would be the point of learning all of the fancy schmantsy (and in many cases dangerous) pole tricks. Guys tell stupid stories and even stupider guys want to believe them when they say that they had some stripper who gave it up or whatever in the club.

Here's a little secret for every guy that has ever heard such a story from one of his buddies or even told one himself. Here it goes are you ready? All strip clubs are wired with infrared cameras and microphones so unless the club owner is looking to lose his license, business and his freedom, he is not letting his girls get it popping like that up in his club okay? Don't believe the hype! Besides do you know how many people you would have to pay off to get away with something like that with eyes on you every minute? So you can dispense with the fairytale that the girls working in clubs are anything but the talented professionals than they are. It may not be a profession you approve of but that is fine different strokes for different folks, but don't get the idea that dancers are anything but who they are, women at work in a demanding and often difficult line of work.

That said, pole dancing is an intricate, beautiful, and fun activity. It requires the use of every single muscle in your body and works each one through it's entire range of motion. If you can strip back images of seedy dark strip clubs and observe the sport of pole dancing, you will be absolutely amazed at the talent, strength, and commitment that it takes to

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