Porn Chic by Lynch Annette;

Author:Lynch, Annette;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2013-03-07T00:00:00+00:00

Pole Dancing: Porn Chic Exercise and Fun

Physical progress stagnating? Bored with aerobics classes? Workouts becoming a chore? Tired of the gym scene? Need to feel confident again? Want to spice things up with your partner?

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Popular culture exposure to pornography ideals and practices is also affecting how women are constructing leisure and exercise. Pole dancing as a form of exercise and female recreation, particularly focusing on what is commonly marketed as “time out with the girls,” has been a fast-growing trend in both the United States and the United Kingdom. In the United States, Las Vegas, as a hub for gambling and all kinds of vice, has served as a certification hub, with dance studios in locations as remote as the rural Midwest opening and advertising that their instructors were trained in Vegas. Pole-dancing studios in the United States and Britain tend to be housed outside of the traditional fitness establishments, with some making direct reference to being a bit “naughty” and others advertising themselves as a “gym” environment but with a bit of spice. The pole-dancing classes attended by Samantha Holland and Feona Attwood (2009) in the United Kingdom for their participant-observation study took place in a room behind the bar area of a modern-style pub in Leeds, with poles temporarily installed for the lessons by the visiting instructors. This is in contrast with the more specialized studio spaces I visited in the United States, which offered multiple sessions of pole dancing at differing levels.

Pole dancing originated as an erotic performance that was widely performed in Euro-American strip clubs in the 1980s, with some linking the practice to Canada (Holland and Attwood, 2009). The movement of this form of dance into the mainstream through the offering of pole-dancing exercise classes emerged in the first decade of the millennium in both Britain and the United States, with the two studios I researched in the United States offering their first pole-dancing courses in 2007 and 2009, with both studios advertising instructors trained in Las Vegas; Holland and Attwood’s British research occurred in 2006. I would concur with Holland and Attwood that pole dancing needs to be understood within a broader cultural movement toward the acceptance of practices once marginalized as “sex work” in the mainstream of women’s culture. Along with boudoir photography these “prosex” events are used to mark bonding moments among women, such as bachelorette parties, but also function as protected environments wherein women feel free to express their sexuality without being censored and judged by others.

During the rise of these expressions of girl culture, raunch popular culture was undergoing a makeover in women’s sexuality. Through a range of mass media–covered events, women were being encouraged to express, take charge of, and gain power from their own sexuality. Pole-dancing classes emerged as the most

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