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Last week I learned that girls as young as 3-years-old worry they are fat. Now I’ve come across a dance studio in London that offers pole dancing classes for girls as young as – wait for it – 3 years-old.
For just five pounds an hour, parents can sign their little girls up for Little Spinners classes at Make Me Fabulous Studio to learn pole dancing. The instructors say the class “helps youngsters keep fit and boosts their self-esteem.”
While I agree that keeping kids fit and boosting their self-esteem is extremely important, I do not think that pole dancing classes are the appropriate avenue to achieve this goal. How does teaching girls to “hold their legs in a v-shape while sliding down a pole” help their self-esteem?
To be honest, I find this extremely disturbing and proof of the growing sexualization of young girls today. Kidscape, the first charity in the UK established specifically to prevent bullying and child sexual abuse, agrees.
Director Claude Knights says:
Exposing children to pole dancing at such a young age carries a great risk.
The children will innocently enjoy copying the raunchy moves they learn, but be completely unaware of the sexual messages these send out which inevitably can have dangerous results.
It is of course very important for children to take exercise and group activities, but why would you package it as pole dancing, something which has overt sexual connotations?
I could not agree more. The dance moves may seem innocent to young girls, but there is no denying that the message they carry are overtly sexual, and the older the girls get the more clear this message becomes. There are lots of other ways we can promote fitness and confidence among young girls – pole dancing should not be one of them.
What do you think?
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+ add your ownPole dancing doesn't necessarily mean sensuality...
It's a form of dance; a form of art. It requires incredible flexibility and strength.
Yes, it does require minimal clothing, as clothes would slip on the pole, but it could be a great way to inspire activity in children.
To me, it's a form of gymnastics.
It's only sexual if you make it sexual. But really, it's a shame so many people make it that way...
Fitness and self-esteem are the worst excuses for wanting to see a 3-year-old dance sensually I've ever seen.
so revolting
Three is too young let children enjoy being children.
Why not? Pole dancing is a beautiful thing, as much as gymnastics or ballet. As long as my child would be safe and they'd want to, I'd sign them up.
Pole dancing is classy? Don't kid yourself, unless you live under a rock you'd realize that's not the idea of pole dancing in this world. It seems like a lot of people in this world are much into children than they like to admit, with all this crap going on with young girls - yet still a handful of people that come up with childish excuses for such actions or just go along with it. It's pretty clear what those type of people are really into. Obviously, being a pedo is probably becoming much easier. Instead of pedos going after the children, they will just teach the children to be sexual. Makes the job so much easier for the pedo, eh.
pole dancing??? r these parents crazy?! what happened to signing them up for music lessons, ballet, or sports??? pole dancing is for adult women, not little girls.
I think any mother who can not make time to take their child to age appropriate classes like finger painting and kids gym should rethink why they are a parent in the first place. We have exactly just 12 years to be a child, then 6 additional years to be teens, then a lifetime to be screwed up adults, if we so chose, so by disallowing a child to be a child when a child generally leads to childish adults raising children to be 'companions'.
You know, pole dancing doesn't have to be sexualized, and skimpy costumes aren't required- it can actually be quite elegant and classy, if it's done right.
If parents are that concerned about their kids' fitness, why not sign their 3 year olds up for jazz class? Or ballet? Or modern? There are zillions of different kinds of dance, most of which are not nearly as sensual as pole dancing. Plus, jazz, modern, and ballet are probably all more active and better for you than pole dancing anyway. So the whole signing-kids-up-for-pole-dancing because their parents are concerned about their inactive lifestyle really doesn't make all that much sense.
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