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Women make up 85% of the pole fitness genre. Why aren't there more men involved in this amazing workout? Here's Pole Spin magazine on men's pole dancing:
It’s definitely more Cirque Du Soleil than “Stripper Soiree” these days, with pole classes reflecting the athletism required to hold the moves. Yet pole dancing itself is a long way to becoming gender blind – the problem is not that poles still remain a favourite of the strip clubs – thus perpetuating the image of women grinding against a pole - it’s more the perceptions of a society that continue to sexualize objects – just look at the dance classes available for women: burlesque, chair dance, belly and lap dancing. We as a society love to attach labels, and everything has its rightful place – men in the gym vs women in the cardio. Men lifting weights vs women doing dance classes. Men doing boxing vs women doing aerobics…. and pole dance. Rarely is it the norm that classes are mixed, and if they are, then it’s seen more as a quirky thing – a token man in the ladies class, as opposed to a workout session that just happens to be a mixed sex class.
