Family groups have expressed serious concern after it was revealed children as young as seven are taking pole dancing classes. The pole dancing trend has spread across Australia in recent years, with teens and pre-teens among those attending pole fitness classes.
Eleven-year-old Angela was diagnosed with coeliac disease earlier this year, and is now taking up to three classes a week to improve her strength. "It's really fun and you get to learn a lot of different moves. People think it's pole dancing but it's not. It's great exercise," she told News Ltd. Her mother yesterday defended the exercise, saying that she stays and watches her daughter train every class. "It's not slutty or anything. I've seen pole dancing on TV and they don't do anything like that here," the 42-year-old said. "It's building up her strength after she got ill and it doesn't put too much pressure on her muscles. She's much stronger, healthier and more confident now." But the Australian Family Group has condemned the practice, and suggested it could provoke paedophile attacks. "It certainly provides a great opportunity for paedophiles to see the children in a sexual way," said spokeswoman Angela Conway. "By putting children in a pole dancing exercise class you're teaching children a sexual body language that they don't know the meaning of but adults do," she said. "There are plenty of exercise tools out there. Why choose a pole, the classic phallic symbol of the pornographic world?" Angela Perry, owner of Sydney's Pole Fitness Studios, defended the practice. "You're not about to deprive people from doing (an exercise because it) could be taken as sexual," she says. "Most definitely not are we sexualising children. "Its fabulous exercise. "We don't have routines, we don't have adult themes. "We teach people to hang, we teach them to flip, climb (and) spin. "These are all gymnastics or circus based tricks. "There's not anything to do with dancing ... people are wandering their minds up the wrong path."
Women who attend the classes wear casual clothing and go barefoot. The Australian Federation of Parents and Citizens' Association warned parents to be careful with letting their children attend pole dancing lessons. "Normally the P&C supports any sort of fitness regime to help kids get healthy but with the reputation of this industry, parents need to be very careful," said spokeswoman Sharryn Brownlee.
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