What is the attitude towards pole dancing there?
Well, the attitude is mixed. Generally, it seems that most people think that it is pretty cool. There have been articles about pole dancing in every national newspaper, a fitness magazine, two or three fashion magazines and in a morning radio show. At this years “Woman’s International Day,” there was even a seminar about women’s empowerment that included pole dance. My personal experiance is that people I tell that I pole dance just view it as another kind of sport. Most think it is nifty. The only person I have met that had a negative attitude is my boss. He at one point said that pole dancing is “morally degenerate.” Funny enough, I haven’t told him what I do in my spare time. I know that there is a Facebook group for “people who think that all pole dancers are whores,” and I have read a comment from two female professors in gender studies who think the pole dancing will lead young woman astray so they will end up as gogo-dancers and prostitutes. Well, I have personally never met any
