I.A.M. Musing About…

Pole Dancer Doll for Kids (via Gizmondo)

Following on a bit from a post over on Christopher Fowler’s blog (visited daily by all good persons and true), it seems the inter-world is a-gog about the Pole Dancer Doll for Children [image right]. And rightly should be, frankly. It’s not only a bad example for children, the figure is wearing the frumpiest frock ever devised! Can’t they find her something that looks flattering? Even something pretty would make the toy less hideous to the eyes, surely?

But, I hear you cry, is that real?

A Pole Dancer for your desk!

Well, I’ve found a reference on the site for the New York Daily News (the NYC equal to the Daily Mail), but it seems to have originated on Gizmondo on Aug. 30 ^th. Neither of these is exactly proof positive, but the figure bares a striking similarity to an earlier product.

This week’s appearance in the marketplace of a motorised pole-dancing doll, followed Gizmondo’s coverage December 14^th of 2006 of Marks & Spencer – Britain’s un-official national department store–removing from their catalogue the “USB Pole Dancer” for adults [image, left], with an RRP of £19.50. The product was offered for sale a week later after its inclusion in the catalogue of Boys Stuff (which seems like limiting the market; what of Lesbians?) and the price jumped to £29.95. By this time, searches for “Pole Dancer” on M&S’s site were met with no results, but helpfully suggested “more results were found under ‘Polo Dancer’”. No statistics were available for how many took-up the suggested new search.

Coverage of the M&S brew-ha-ha (December 9^th, 2006) are available courtesy of – predictably – the Daily Mail article “The £19.50 pole dancer M&S was forced to axe”.

Granted, the Weekly World News did a four-colour supplement on the doll, but let’s not bother about that.

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