In a recent piece, William Teach offered this rhetorical question about children as young as five being taught pole-dancing.
Am I the only one who sees the problem with this? Are we trying to turn future generations into strippers? Interestingly, one would think that feminists would have a problem with objectifying girls that young. Alas, no. They can say it’s all about “fitness and technique,” um, no.
In case you’re wondering, this is not coming out of some third world pedophile Mecca, like Thailand. It was a feature in the Calgary Herald about Tantra Fitness in British Columbia, “One of a small but growing number of pole-dancing studios quietly extending their services to underage girls.”
The Canadian company, which operates in Vancouver and Langley, has taught students age nine and up in regular classes, and has gone as young as five years old in private lessons. There’s even talk of introducing a mommy-and-me pole class.
No, Teach, you aren’t alone. I have a problem with this, too, despite reassurances from the school’s faculty that there is nothing remotely hinky about little Suzy replacing jump-rope and ballet to become a pint-sized slut-in-training.
“It’s just another form of exercise, and an awesome core workout . . . You should see (Kennedy’s) little abs — they’re rockin’,” says Randi Moscovitch-Benko, a fitness instructor. “I challenge anybody who has anything to say about it being a bad thing or a sexual thing or ‘how can you let your child do this?’ to get up on the pole and try to pull their legs over their head.”
Huh?
Somehow that didn’t reassure me. Neither did Moscovitch-Benko’s point that little girls must have signed parental consent before they are taught more direct methods of sexually arousing strangers for profit.
Notably, the only Tantra classes on which there are firm age restrictions are Exotic Dance and Lap Dance, leaving open those with names such as Bellylicious, Sexy Flexy, Pussycat Dawls and Promiscuous Girls. But for anyone underage to participate, Morris says a waiver must be signed by the youth’s parents.
This is truly puke-worthy. It’s bad enough to have to slog daily through these in-your-face, hyper-sexualized, masturbatory times. But this is too far. Leave the kids out of it.
But it seems that kids are drawn in more and more these days: Remember this?
One of Teach’s readers commented that this is likely the sort of thing that marked the last days of Sodom and Gomorrah. And I often wonder, observing the conditions of our time, what kind of moral corruption brought about Noah’s flood. You really gotta wonder, how far afield are we from the moral state of those lost souls?
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Ew. Just ew.
Re-reading and watching the clip, and I have more to say.
I love my kids school – this stuff isn't an issue. There are benefits to the majority of the kids in our school being very conservative mormons. That psychologist is saying that there's no use in trying to keep your children from this stuff, I disagree. I think keeping the lines of communication open is good, cause they might see it at school, but by watching it at home you are giving the impression that it's okay to watch this stuff, but telling them they shouldn't. "Do as I say, not as I do." Time and again psychologists have said that that DOES NOT WORK. If you don't want your children to watch stuff like this, or to think it's okay, then you need to lead by example.
You cant take this very far without seeing it's a really bad idea. In gymnastics they have good role models. Who is the professional pole dancer that you want your child emulating? It's ridiculous.
If I hear "Oh Well" one more time I shall lose it. We aren't happy selling our own souls, we are infecting the innocent. The state will (and has) taken a 15 year old girl out of a family home for being grounded her to her room after school for repeatedly smoking pot after school. The same school counselors find it "Oh Well" as 11-14 year old girls grind into the crouches of boys during dances, effectively simulating sex. We are "OH Welling Pot" and hire undercover agents to catch 17 year olds buying cigarettes. ABC's Family channel is exclusively teen sex story lines, and Boomers say "Oh well" we did it. NOT AT 9-11! My God, wake the hell up!
The Bible says we must approach Him with the innocence of a child, I hope few show up wearing slutty coverings for under-developed minds.
Seriously? Has any one actually taken a pole fitness class? There are poles at playgrounds!! The World Pole Dance Champion also Pole Dances for Zumanity, a Cirque show. Get over it!
What every child knows, and hopefully you do not, is that "The Pole" is meant for stripping. Yes the craze has spread to fitness, but always sensual in nature.
The fact that you want me to "get over it", means simply that you have no respect for the innocence of a child, no concern over 9-11 year olds (and less) dressing like their pop idol Lady Ga-ga, who regularly encourages sex in any and all forms. Her Biggest Fan Group 9-14 year old girls who account for up to 70% of her sales. A recent video had her having sex with a skeleton, her nudity only hidden by angle. Necromancy, Her primary followers, 9-14 year old girls.
I'm sad to see you've gotten over it.
Lady Gaga and her ilk sell their souls for a little short-term fame and wealth. The impressionable youth are nothing but a means to an end for them. A demographic with money to spend, so therefore a target to corrupt. God help us all.
What stunning logic. Using your premise, what's wrong with kids drinking bleach? Bleach is everywhere, it cleans swimming pools and make your whites whiter.