Sunday, 7 September 2008

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Sex and the Style Editor

Alison Tay

Pole Position

Pole dancing fever's sweeping celebsville with Carmen Electra leading the way

Carmen Electra promotes her at home pole dancing kit The Electra Pole

I may be a fully certified in Burlesque And The Exotic Arts, but one discipline that’s never appealed to me is pole dancing. It’s just not a weapon I believe a woman needs in her arsenal to make her more alluring.

Some of my good friends are pole stars, and I appreciate the flexibility, gymnastic technique, core strength and ability to look hot while you’re doing it involved, but without wishing to criticise their craft, unless you’re on dancing on the bar at Stringfellows, it’s not the most transferable of skills.

It would appear however that I’m in the minority, as Kate Moss and Sadie Frost are both pole aficionados, and founding member of the Pussycat Dolls Carmen Electra has just launched a portable pole dancing kit so you can make him wish his girlfriend was hot like you in the privacy of your own home - should you and your interior design sensibilities be so inclined.

Carmen Electra’s Electra-Pole is £99.95, comes with an instructional DVD, can be bolted to the floor and ceiling, and claims to support over 15 stone in weight. God help him.