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Heheh.

I can’t really.. find merit in the opinion of someone who takes a video of their freckles.

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Mmm! In my adult life, I’m so very inside of myself. I do chores, run errands, hold conversations, hold myself upright. I compile lists, I pay bills, I make sure my mother is happy, my husband is happy, my numerous pets are happy. I do not sunbathe nude, or light candles in my bath tub. When I lotion, it’s purely functional.

When I dance, I am not inside of myself.. or inside of my body. I am my body. It’s.. almost like sex in that regard, that I am not a soul within a shell.. but an entire pulsing being! I’m nolonger the mind that sits in the body on the couch, reading whatever garbage I’ve picked up that week. I’m not the person halfway in and halfway out of the world driving down whichever street in whichever traffic. I’m not the girl doing yoga, pretending that I’m miles and miles away laying on a beach while I push through whatever miserable pose I’m in. I AM MY BODY. Not a body, extension of the mind.. just body. Pulsing, living, feeling, sensing body.

so. for me. dancing alone, with the pole, no cameras no gawkers no husband no nothing.. just dancing, is extremely extremely sensual.

but I also think there’s a difference between dancing by yourself and dancing with others! Kind of like it’s a private sensuality? I dunno.

I’m just kind of throwing thoughts at the wall here. I ENJOY this post. Thinking on it. I don’t want to ignore it, but I can’t put everything I feel while dancing into words. So… just an attempt. ;0

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I have one of the least commercial bodies here, that posts videos. …. God this sounds.. so riiidiculous..But I’ve got a gut, cellulite, angel’s wings. I’ve got.. Uhhh. Thunda thighs, and my ass is kind of strangely shaped, in that it’s.. not bubbly, but not flat, but wideish? I don’t know. My boobs, they’re not perky.

…. Jesus, it sounds so ridiculous! I am not a dimpled thigh! Or a lumpy ass. I AM NOT a flabby arm. I am one total whole complete person who looks REALLY GOOD. And sometimes when I move, and it all comes together, my collection of less than perfect parts.. I am perfect.

I’m going to make a suggestion..

Get out your mirror. Set your video camera in front of it. Pose in front of the mirror. Look at what looks good and sexy and lovely on you. … Since I’m Amcut, I’d do it naked. .. but a nice panty set would probably do. All kinds of poses. Elongate, flirt, ridiculousness. The perfect video, essentially, because you can see everything you’re giving to the camera.

And then everytime you want to BEAT yourself up about a video, watch that one. You at your best. To remind you that a couple of times where you bent over at the wrong angle don’t mean anything because you have SO MANY MORE perfect, beautiful moments.

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oh geez those are so cute!

SO CUTE.
next time I see you, I’m going to be wearing a much larger pair of them.

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So.
I understand restrictive feminism- where one woman tells another woman that what she’s doing is degrading, that it hurts the progression of feminism, that it gives women a bad image..

As a woman, I think it’s ridiculous. I’m an individual, I can do what I want, and if the feminist agenda is so easily bruised by my sexuality.. well, it can take a hike. My desires come first.

…As a black person, do I want to bloody and beat Kanye West for his various paranoid and ridiculous activities? Why? They reinforce negative stereotypes! Yeeeah. BLOODY AND BEAT. Do I immediately feel shame because as a strong individual I understand that Kanye West is free to do whatever the hell he likes because he too is an individual and should not be stunted because of my racial perception agenda?

So. I understand that our activities- our pole dancing, our sexy, does probably bother quite a few women, and for good reason. If I were a woman who was trying hard to define myself WITHOUT my sexuality being a great portion of me….. well, I would be really annoyed by women who seemed to revel in that sexuality that I was trying so hard to steer from. Maybe he would say, "That’s a real woman", and I would not be a woman in his estimation.

As for me. I do what I want! If someone is so foolish as to package me as only one thing, they’re nuts. It reflects upon them rather than upon me. I am not just sex. Or not just an intelligent woman. I’m not just a housewife. I’m not only anything! ..Just like Kanye West isn’t just an idiot out to bruise racial relations. *keeps on reminding herself of that*

Anyways. I babble! I’m done! SWEAR.

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I think SM holds are powermoves.
I love to watch leg circles and craziness in an SM

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https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_sad.gif Their logo needs redesigning.

As is, it looks like pole dancers are so foolish that we can’t spell sensations.

It needs to be like…
SINsations, with the SIN looking particularly decadent.

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Ooooh!

Amy, that’s one of my favorite topics! Ever!

I actually think you have to part from the studio and have your own pole to get your own style- yeah, you can take those great parts that you love- but I don’t think that if I’m spending all day doing a dance choreographed by Michula of Antix fitness, that I’m going to have anything but an ugly version of her style. (Of course, plenty of people would have a similar, goodlooking version, but I’d have an ugly one).

Or Alethea and Angela Seikman, who are be spun women, but… don’t even flip their hair like Leigh Ann.

..I think it’s a compliment, though! Like, if you were apprenticed under a master carpenter, or a protege of a philosopher and you were recognizable as a student or disciple of their learning? What’s wrong with that! Nothing! It’s not saying you’re a clone, just.. someone who picked up some styles and that they’re identifiable! And then when your style is so freaking crazy that you have no discernible former studio, someone will apprentice under you. Mm!

It’s exciting to think of!

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Roxy, have you tried freezing your tofu?

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….
Anything that makes you lose weight that fast leaves you with a shit ton of skin.
My elasticity is excellent, but I’m not going to test it with something that rapid.

I’d much rather lose the dreaded 1 lb a week and have my boobs keep up with their deflation than lose 30 lbs in a month and have saggy boob bags sitting on top of my saggy stomach bag, on top of my saggy pubic mound, on top of my saggy thighs. Can you hear my morbid fear of extra skin coming out? LOL

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You don’t have to play like a sex kitten- you can just do the transitions, and your natural style will work through them! For some girls it is sex kitten- but there are soooo many things to give off.

And maybe after you spend some time being cute, graceful, elegant, high energy, or brassy you can hit the sexy note without feeling ridiculous.

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Whoa Amy!
I feel bad now that Sue Ann Wee has less degrees of separation from me!

I guess if Crunch sucks the balls that badly at monitoring, they -should- be sued. They’re probably large enough to fend her off from a large monetary amount, but they may take better care in the future. Alright, Sue. You may have been silly, and should probably stick to skin disorders.. but you do have a point. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_wink.gif

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She actually said she wasn’t strong enough.. then did it anyways without a spotter.
Nice.

It’s worse than hot coffee at mcdonalds.
It’s like, she looked at the coffee, felt it, decided it was too hot, told people it was too hot, then poured it all over herself.

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This is an interesting thought to me.
I compared it to other things that pole was like, and thought about it from those angles.

A yoga teacher attending the classes of another yoga teacher.
Someone who works at a gym owning a membership to a different gym.
Gallery curator visiting another gallery.
Artist giving their works to different venues.
A stripper working at two different clubs.
A professor attending another prof’s lecture.
A chef dining out elsewhere.

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It’s kind of like pole dancing is so many things, none of them private.. yet it has that strange trade-secret mentality that really only exists in places where things are -made-. It’s kooky if you ask me. Koooooky.

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Interesting. I did some googling, and I guess we eat fairly clean around here.

We do eat commercial cereals and designer proteins in my house, though.. and while I do often go without the cereal in favor of oatmeal .. I would NEVER give up my protein shakes! Oh, and I also use artificial sweeteners, though I prefer natural when it’s.. reasonable.

I’d suggest using ricotta instead of cottage cheese, yogurt, whichever in the pancakes too! just as a variant! delicious!

I have a buttload of frozen yogurt recipes if anyone has an ice cream maker. I’ve become sort of a flavor master with that. …(i also know how to make -very- unclean ice cream. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_wink.gif )

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You’re supposed to get a lotion that doesn’t interfere with your pole. ….. there are a bunch of them, and I don’t remember what their base is.

I can use my jergens a few hours before poling with no problem.

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WOO

Go granny, go granny.

I’m going to save this as… one of the videos for when my mother in law tries to refuse my pole dance outing. I know she’s going to love it. Yeeeeah, you are, Kathy. Yeah, you are.

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I think the fireman is unsafe if you’re not strong enough to do it, or are doing it wrong.

is there anything in pole dancing you can’t seriously injure yourself doing?

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..Whoa!

I’ve never met anyone who likes how the PS spins more than the X! Crrazy! and neat.

When doing customer service calls with PS, always ask to speak with Kim. She’s the gets-stuff-done woman there. She’s a bit of a know-it-all, but she’s really efficient. All of the men are -useless-.

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…
your doctor needs.. an ass whooping of the most extreme variety. Where was the part where you slapped the doctor in the face and told her you weren’t seeing her anymore because she was a lousy whore? I know I’m being.. rude, but seriously. Allergies are no joke. Isn’t that why we go see doctors in the first place? So we don’t end up taking something that hurts more than it cures?!

…Good luck on your HCG injections. I understand how they’re supposed to work, but I thought the only reason why it did was because it .. helped with the side effects of a mega-restrictive diet? Whatever! Good luck still!

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http://www.youtube.com/aretamarie

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Glad you’re doing better, Foxy.

And I’m.. really glad that both of y’all are getting back on the pole. Only harm can come from ignoring the 300$ fitness and fun investment. only harm. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_wink.gif

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Runemist, yeah, you just copy and paste the paragraph. The last time I did it the change back to music was almost immediate.

They always say stuff like
"educational, non profit, or personal use" is typically fair use, so I imagine that’s why even if SV got MASSIVE and everyone and their mom was on it and all kinds of places that have music knew about it they wouldn’t mind. It’s not like youtube where half of the people there are posting direct footage from movies, or songs with just a face in the background.

And.. as to owning cds or mp3 rights- you own the right to have it, but not the right to make money off of it. But the right to dance to it is there regardless of if you bought the cd or not. Youtube just mutes what it recognizes, and it’s up to you to dispute it if you think you’re using it the way it was meant to be used.

…and I definitely feel that dancing to a song is the way it was meant to be used.

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Woot Woot, Happy Birthday!

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Forgive me, but

"Furniture polish to give it some slickness"

tells me that no good could come from using this pole. LOL.

…
I don’t think you can genuinely make a removable, spinny pole yourself. Maybe if you were dating an engineer who was recently fired from xpole and had access to a machinist shop.

Nothing wrong with a good solid homemade permanent pole,though!