Girls: Pole Dancing?

Not my first post ever! First post in the fitness forum. Or is that what you meant? Anyway, I never meant to provoke such a reaction, I didn't think it was that bad a thread

Thank you for your actually useful response though, James Did you just happen upon this thread, or were you stalking my posts?

There are lots of strip clubs in Newmarket as well. If you've got a car that might be an option.

What are you, are retard? Your location says Cambridge and your OP said you wanted to try pole dancing, so I gave you some helpful advice on trying pole dancing in Cambridge. How hard is that to understand?

Talk about ungrateful

Grow the **** up you ignorant prick. Pole-dancing =/= being stripper.

I honestly thought you were more intelligent than that. Guess I was wrong.

It's not a bad thread, it's actually opened up into quite an interesting debate.
I usually look at the Discussions tab on the side and click on the little cross to see who started the thread and how many posts there have been on it so far. Lo and behold, this one was started by you

Little hint: you'll come across a lot (and I mean a lot) of morons on here, so it's best to ignore some of the more inflammatory comments because they might just be trying to get a rise out of you for poops and giggles.

Grow the **** up you ignorant prick. Pole-dancing =/= being stripper.

I honestly thought you were more intelligent than that. Guess I was wrong.

You might want to reread your first sentence, there. And no, you're not being helpful, you're once again talking about strip clubs.

I was talking about joining a society at university, which will not be in Cambridge. It's for fun and fitness, not to learn how to be a professional stripper (again, I am not saying pole dancing and stripping is the same thing). If I do it, I know where I will be doing it. My questions weren't about where I could learn, they were actually about physical things. So again, no, you are not being helpful.

Its just a fact. I don't get why some people get on their moral high horse about this, like they want to try pole dancing but the idea of mixing with someone who works in a strip club revolts them. ****ing hypocrites.

Yeah, but it's not a debate I wanted to be a part of :/ I also didn't know you could do that haha.

And I know, I guess I get annoyed too easily. I need to practice not reacting, it doesn't always help my rep points

Money is THE difference? So other than getting paid, there is no difference between a casual pole dancer and a stripper?

You said it, not me.

Oh right, well you should have said your "new" location otherwise how are people meant to advise you on where to go to get started?

You also need to get it into your head that if you do take up pole dancing, you will come into contact with girls who work in strip clubs. If this repulses you so much, you should maybe think of taking up a different hobby.

No, you're completely missing my point. Pole-dancing doesn't always have something to do with being a stripper.
Ok, so the tutors might be strippers. And what? That doesn't automatically make their students strippers-to-be.
And I'm not being a hypocrite. I'm getting pissed off with you because you seem to be insinuating that just because somebody uses a pole for exercise purposes that they MUST be doing it in order to be a stripper. That isn't always the case. You're coming across as incredibly close-minded, surely you must notice that?
I can see your point, don't get me wrong, but it's not a case of being a stripper. It's a case of pole-dancing for exercise purposes. Which has no bearing on being a stripper whatsoever. Now I'm repeating myself

No. I was created in a lab.


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I notice you deleted that sentence. Maybe you shouldn't have written it at all, eh? Might have got yourself a few more negs.

And no, again, I am not looking for advice on "where to get started". I know where I'm going to be. Maybe get that into your head? What the hell is it with you and strip clubs, anyway?! The instructor is actually a student, so no, she doesn't work in a strip club. I also never said it repulses me; in fact, a while back I said I have no problem with strippers/pole dancers who work in strip clubs, because it's their decision to do that kind of work and that's fine. In fact, show me where I said it repulses me, please.

Why do I get the feeling that I am the only person here that has ever actually been to a strip club or interacted with pole dancers, both amateur and professional?

If you're not intelligent enough to read my posts without jumping to completely the wrong conclusion, that's your problem. Throughout the entire thread I've been the single voice of reason and tolerance when everyone else has been alternately demonising pole dancers in general or professional pole dancers in particular.

I accurately advised her that a strip club would be a good place to find out about pole dancing lessons, and you think that means I am suggesting she signs up for a shift?

Firstly wtf how am I spamming?

You're really good at ignoring certain things and twisting them so they work for you, congrats. You were suggesting that the outfit was the only difference. I was pointing out that you were wrong.

To have a debate you need to accept the fact that your opinion might deemed wrong by the other person/people. You dont seem to be able to grasp that. Therefore this is pointless, bye.

Nah I don't believe that for one minute. If they "like turning upside down" thereare plenty of appropriate gymnastic activities that don't happen take place in nightclubs with groups of sweaty men watching you do the horizontal splits in tight/non-existent pants. Pole-dancing is pole-dancing - if its was pole gymnastics then it would be called pole gymnastics and it would take place in a gymnasium.

You're going to tell me there's nothing inherently sexual about lap-dancing next and its actually just "lap gymnastics".

yes, I thought it was unnecessarily offensive, and I'm not trying to start a fight, I'm just trying to make you see how unrealistic you are if you think pole dancing and strip clubs are these two completely separate worlds that never interact.

If your not being judgemental, how come you got so offended when I suggested you contact a strip club to put you in touch with an instructor? Hmmm?

I disagree with what you think you mean, even though you state otherwise.

Well seeing as you're so sure of yourself, what about gymnastics then? That involves women in leotards jumping around lithely and flexing here and there. Is there something "inherently sexual" about that too? (bear in mind I'm talking in relation to pole dancing, not lap dancing). These things depend on context- if she's not being paid to do it while men leer over her, then it hardly strikes me as being inherently sexual or pretending to be a paid sex worker...

I wouldn't say I'm not unwilling to not disagree with the things you said you said you meant but think you mean, even though you didn't say you thought to mean them.

I hope that clarifies things.