Empowerment or Exploitation? Engender want your views...

19 May 2009

Pole dancing as a fitness class?  Burlesque as an artform?  Lap-dancing as empowerment?

Engender would like to develop a policy statement regarding these activities and we would like to hear your opinions. Can pole-dancing ever be a sport/exercise in its own right? Can it be disassociated from the link to ‘adult entertainment’ and the gendered exploitation that link entails? Is there a difference between burlesque and stripping? Are these activities a step forward in female empowerment and sexual liberation in modern society, or its very antithesis?

Read more about the areas we want to discuss here  

If you would like to join the debate on Adult Entertainment, or if you would be interested in attending a discussion group, we would like to hear from you. Please get in touch at Carol.Flack@engender.org.uk  / 0131 558 9596.   Engender members can also sign in to our members area and discuss this on our forum ( Please contact karen@engender.org.uk if you have problems signing in)