I find it very interesting that our industry tends to be very quick to draw a line between exotic dance and pole dance, exclaiming quite emphatically that they are not the same thing and that being an exotic dancer does not make you a pole dancer.

Then we come to competitions, both large and small, and many of these same people will ban exotic dancers from their competition because they are considered professionals.

Which is it? Are exotic dancers professional pole dancers or is pole making a clean break from the exotic dance world?  We can't have it both ways.