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mind anyway... I don’t like working in it.
Denisa: Many people try to distance pole
dance from strip clubs. Do you think these
tendencies are healthy? Doesn’t it take some
fun out of pole dancing?
Pantera: As far as taking the stripping out of
pole dancing. It’s never gonna happen, you
can’t do it... It’s ingrained in people’s lives to
look at a pole and think stripper, right?
You can’t change that... And why can’t you
change that... Here is the reason why...
because there are still poles in strip clubs.
There’s still strip club, there’s still strippers
dancing on poles. You’ll never change people’s
mentality about that until you get rid off the
poles in strip clubs. Good luck! On top of that
the taboo is what made it famous. It’s what
made people wanna do it. It enticed people.
It’s like its roots, you know what I mean? Me
and a lot of these girls that started doing this
racket were strippers. So a lot of these huge
names that have been around for as long as I have
or almost as long as I have are/were/are strippers.
I don’t know what they’re doing now but I don’t
see what the point is in being disrespectful to the
roots. I don’t see what the point is in being rude to
the people that ... You know how people get really
irritated when you say you’re a pole dancer and
they go “oh so you’re a stripper, right?” People
don’t do that so much anymore, pole dancing is
really getting a lot more mainstream and people are
kinda telling the difference. People like me, people
like Katie, Jamila, they might have something to
do with it. People like us are the ones who first
took the load of all of that bullshit. So it’s really
disrespectful ... let me just speak for myself... it’s
really disrespectful to me. I don’t think you know
what we did. So you can stand there and be all
arrogant about not ever being a stripper. It’s like
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