Miss Pole Dance Argentina 2009, now that is a competition.

Pole Dancing brings to mind one thing that I can think of, strippers.  I really didn’t know there was more to it than that.  I guess if I am being up front I still don’t know anything factually for sure other than apparently there are competitions for how good of a pole dancer you can be.  If you are going to do something no matter what you do you should try and be the best.  That seems to be the theme as Argentina held its 2009 pole dancing competition last week.  I guess it would draw more mainstream attention by calling it the pole dancing competition versus the best damn stripper competition.

I am just not sure where you would learn to pole dance if not on the stage ripping off your clothes.  There do not seem to be many opportunities to dance with a pole other than a strip club.  I haven’t seen any dance classes offering it as an alternative to Jazz or Hip Hop which is becoming the craze of the middle aged out of shape club, who don’t enjoy ballroom dancing.  Now if my girlfriend asked me to attend a pole dancing class and the men just sat in the audience giving tips that would be interesting.  On the other hand I am not sure that I want my girlfriend pole dancing in front of a crowd.  Brings back that stripper connotation again.

Conflicting interests at war inside my head now have me confused.  Rumor has it that next May, in London there will be a world wide pole dancing competition.  Now it still doesn’t seem fair to me that all of the fun shit happens over in Europe.  Why can’t we get Obama and Oprah to spend a little energy on the good fights and try to bring the World Wide Pole Dancing Championships to the United States?  We know they failed at the Olympics but can’t we give them another shot and see how they do with pole dancing.  Damn, three words I never thought I would say together are Oprah and pole dancing.  Freaking me out a little.

The one place we would not be able to view a competition of this nature would be Saudi Arabia.  According to Reuters.com the reporter (Rosana Alyami, 22), who aired the racy television interview where sex was discussed on the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation (LBC), has been given a slight reprieve.  Damn, can you imagine talking about sex on TV and getting arrested?  Even our prudish politicians don’t go that far.  Well in most cases anyway.  She was originally sentenced to 5 years in jail and 60 lashes.  Not sure that you got that last part so let me repeat.  60 lashes.

Yes, that means she would be tied up and beaten sixty times with a whip.  What in the hell century are we living in anyway?  The bizarre part is that country is our ally of sorts.  Do we really condone that type of punishment?  Granted the king over there has decided to hold off on the beating, and has his staff reviewing the original punishment decree but what the hell.  I had no idea we still whipped people.  Here in the United States you are not even allowed to spank your children anymore, let alone take a rawhide leather whip and smack them 60 times.  Can you imagine the headlines if a child went to school and said my dad spanked me as I was tied to a pole with a leather whip sixty times?  That is how I got these bloody red scares on my back teacher.

I am all for cultural differences but I don’t get the public flogging thing.  Shit, we should draw the line at some point, right?  I mean don’t we have boundaries.  My guess is the cleric over there handing down the decree never got a good spanking as a child.  Maybe we should see how he likes it before dolling out the punishment on a woman.  Well, who am I to say.

You might fault Argentina for a lot of things but don’t condemn their women for putting on a good pole show.  I will be putting in my request today to attend the World Wide competition and see if we can’t get live JournalStone coverage of pole play.

We have to have goals in life.

Sometimes I feel like a nut and sometimes I need to keep a few dollar bills handy for, well, stuff.

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