Mounting Mr Darcy

Not the title of a spoof Mills & Boon novel; this is what we got up to on Saturday night at a highly successful 'bachelorette' party. See, we had an outfit called Miss Behaviour come and show us how to pole dance. Yes! Fun! Oh, and you have to name the pole, so we decided it had to be called Mr Darcy. Despite the plethora of young hotties currently on the big screen, this just goes to show what women want, not so? Darcy is the original stud muffin. Also speaks of the enduring genius of Jane Austen, for creating same.

Right, now for some trivia.
Fact #1: Boys can in fact pole dance, if they have a mind to. Though they must participate in all moves and must take a stage name for the evening (I was little-known male Spice Girl member Skanky Spice).
Fact #2: It's not remotely sexy when boys do this, not even slightly, because:
Fact #3: Unless you're some wiry yoga instructor, if you are a boy you will be *nowhere near* as bendy as a girl. Not even if that girl is a couch potato. And being a pole dancer requires being bendy, as our lithe instructors in hot pants showed us.
Fact #4: Britney makes for, oddly, bad pole-dancing music. Justin Timberlake is much easier to dance to.

Fie, fie on L.H. for having a cellphone with her wot did take video clips. My stiff cavorting around Mr Darcy has probably been spread around the world by this stage.