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The case for pole dancing in the Olympics
New sports like breaking at the Paris Summer Olympics raise the question. Pole dancing is basically gymnastics, but the world isn’t ready for it.
Dancers generally practice and teach each other at the club, but in the early 2000s, the first pole studios opened in North America, Europe, and Australia, bringing the art of sensual movement on a vertical steel bar from strippers to hobbyists. As a studio owner, she’s had ads rejected by social media platforms “if there’s any amount of butt shown, and sometimes even when there’s not.” Across the board, pole accounts are reportedly shadowbanned on TikTok and Instagram, preventing dancers from marketing themselves and monetizing their work. Bond is hopeful that even a sanitized version of pole will give artists the platform they need to introduce a large audience to the full spectrum of movement embodied at clubs and studios.
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