{"id":381031,"date":"2022-10-10T17:41:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T12:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/?p=381031"},"modified":"2022-10-10T17:41:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T12:41:54","slug":"saudi-women-boldly-find-empowerment-in-pole-dancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/saudi-women-boldly-find-empowerment-in-pole-dancing\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Women Boldly Find Empowerment in Pole Dancing"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Saudi Arabian yoga instructor, Nada, boldly rejected the stigma that her country and society attach to pole dancing and took up the ‘controversial’ activity, she initially had to face a lot of backlash. Later on, she made a progress by discarding the tainted image of it within her circle of friends.<\/p>\n

Pole dancing as a form of exercise has been marred by its association with the shady strip clubs and burlesque houses in the West.<\/p>\n

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Undeterred, Nada courageous stuck with the course she had enrolled in a few years ago at a local gym. The 28-year-old believes she has made progress, at least within her own circle of friends.<\/p>\n

She told AFP, \u201cAt first, they said this is inappropriate and a mistake, Now they say \u2018We want to try it\u201d.<\/p>\n

Nada\u2019s persistence in being identified by her first name only indicates that she and other Saudi pole dancers still have some work to do.<\/p>\n\t\t

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Now after the change in context and growing women empowerment in the country, at least three gyms in Saudi Arabia have begun offering pole dancing courses.<\/p>\n

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One of the owners in Riyadh, May al-Youssef, said, \u201cI feel that pole dancing has been given more attention because it\u2019s something new and girls love to try it,\u201d<\/p>\n

A pole dancing student in Riyadh claimed that she \u201cwasn\u2019t ashamed at all\u201d to give it a try, and said,<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s my personality, I would say. I\u2019m not ashamed to embrace my sensuality, my femininity. I\u2019m not ashamed of anything, as long as I\u2019m not hurting other people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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She did acknowledge that not everyone would be so comfortable with it and agreed to describe her experience only if she could remain anonymous.<\/p>\n

The only reason she stopped, she said, was because pole dancing turned out to be more physically demanding and difficult than it looks onscreen.<\/p>\n

She explained, \u201cI realized it\u2019s not my thing. It needs a lot of muscles, a lot of strength to be able to do it\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Gym manager al-Youssef said that she hopes the physical demands of pole dancing are evident in the pictures and videos that she posts on Instagram. She believes that enthralling evidence of its benefits can be found in the change her clients experienced.<\/p>\n

What do you think of this daring and bold new step by Saudi Arabian women? Let us know in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Saudi Arabian yoga instructor, Nada, boldly rejected the stigma that her country and society attach to pole dancing and took up the ‘controversial’ activity, she initially had to face a lot of backlash. Later on, she made a progress by discarding the tainted image of it within her circle of friends. Pole dancing as a form of exercise has […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":381038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2520,2199,2540,2373,2530,1291],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-381031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dance","8":"category-featured","9":"category-international","10":"category-rumor","11":"category-social-issue-cause","12":"category-social-media"},"wps_subtitle":"Pole dancing is often termed as vulgar by its association with the strip clubs and burlesque houses in Hollywood films but these women don't care.","img_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/FotoJet-21-364x205.jpg",364,205,true],"medium":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/FotoJet-21-758x424.jpg",758,424,true],"full":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/FotoJet-21.jpg",1000,560,false]},"author_name":"Rija Sohaib","categories_name":["Dance","Featured","International","Rumor","Social Issue\/Cause","Social Media"],"title_text":"Saudi Women Boldly Find Empowerment in Pole Dancing","related_stories":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?filter&per_page=4&categories=2520,2199,2540,2373,2530,1291&exclude=381031","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381031"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=381031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}