Dance students taking classes to learn pole dancing
Now HERE is an idea I can get behind — pole dancing in karaoke clubs. I have no idea how pole dancing in a karaoke club works, but I’m sure willing to give it a try. No, No, wait. I don’t mean *I* am going to pole dance, I just want to watch all the ladies do it.
Apparently pole dancing in karaoke clubs is pretty normal and popular among the young people in certain areas of China. It became controversial when one of the many Chinese sub-governments decided to ban it. In a move that made all the karaoke bar owners sigh with relief, in the end the government decided not to put the prohibition into place. “The initial draft to disallow pole dancing aimed to nip erotic performances in the bud,” said an official surnamed Wei at the Culture, Broadcasting and Press Bureau. “But we’ve found no law in China that forbids pole dancing, so we decided to delete the stipulation.”
They did end up passing a new regulation that will prevent erotic performances at venues, including a detailed stipulation to make “all balconies transparent” to people on the street outside. Huh? Explain that one to me. Maybe there was a problem with the language translation software, but that is something else I’d like to see. Those inventive Chinese folks. Transparent balconies. Cool.
