DNCE 1017 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Pole Dance, Lap Dance, Erotic Dance
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Stripper: a person whose occupation involves performing streptease in public adult entertainment. Striptease: an erotic dance in which the performer gradually undresses, either partly or completely,in a seductive and sexully suggestive manner. Pole dancing: a form of performing art historically associated with strip clubs and night clubs, which combines dance and acrobatic centered on a vertical pol. Considered within the realm of liberation and empowerment. Classes are marketed as reducing fat, improving cardiovascular endurance, building strength, improving agility and mastering a difficult skill. Marketed as a way of achieving strength and femininity, power and beauty, and sex appeal with in. Can learn how to lap dance for that special someone . Argued that it constructs a new female sexuality as powerful and playful, as opposed to passive or victimized object of the male gaze. Strippiing as been a stigmatized occupation often criticizeed as degrading to women.
