Pole dancing isn’t just for strippers anymore. In fact, it was hard to find anyone at the International Pole & Exotic Dance Fitness Convention on Saturday with a background in the adult entertainment ...

Forget what you think you know about it. What some may associate with adult entertainment has become a popular mainstream workout. Carolyn Cull teaches pole fitness classes at Studio Rouge in Columbus ...

My legs are spread open in the instructor’s face as I attempt a basic wrist sit move (where you grip the pole with one hand under your butt, then kick your legs wide open), and she’s telling me off ...

If you’d have asked me if I ever thought I’d find myself hanging upside down from a pole – for fun, nonetheless – my answer would have been a brisk but firm “no” (with perhaps a chuckle and an ...