TBH I don't look at the pole, I look at the dancer. And, I'm not interested in Flying Karamazov Brothers style pole tricks. I DGAF if a dancer can fly around in circles 10 feet up while hanging upside down by her ankles and juggling flaming clubs. The pole looks like a dick to me, and I like watching a girl wrap herself around and rub up and down on a dick, preferably mine but a brass one will do. I don't care about gymnastics.
So, when the fancy pole tricks come out, I don't really pay much attention. Recently I noticed a local pole-tricks focused dancer going around and around the pole, and I thought: "isn't that going to give her thighs a friction burn?" Then I noticed that the pole was spinning. DUHHHH. Poles spin. I've been going to strip clubs for 30+ years, and just noticed the damn poles rotate.
Is this a new thing? Or did then always do that? I feel like some poles don't rotate.


In my experience spinning poles are the exception, not the rule. Don't see them very often in my travels. Then again I'm not there for the (stage) pole tricks.