MAILBAG:

I’m curious if you’re trying to stir the pot with the conservative people asking if pole dancing validates stripping (“Lose pounds on pole,” Oct. 12)?

If anything, these classes bring the stripping home, where it belongs. When a woman does this for her man, their bond deepens as their intimacy develops. The other advantage is now he doesn’t have to visit a “gentlemen’s club” anymore to experience a woman’s free expression of her feminine power.

I’ve been taking these classes for almost six years, and as an executive coach and consultant, recommend it to all of my female clients and encourage my male clients to purchase classes for their wives.

These classes are empowering women to own their inner communication, their sexuality and a whole side of themselves that often disappears with child birth, corporate ladder climbing and taking care of a family.

Stripping has been around for eons, long before these classes were conceived.

Thank you for the article, perhaps more women will take the classes.

DEBORAH PETERS

Pacific Palisades

 CHP doesn’t bend for 11-99 charity members

I read Judge Gray’s column (“Charity bolsters CHP favoritism,” Oct. 14) with interest (as usual) and surprise. The surprise was that Judge Gray would infer that members of the CHP 11-99 organization join it, at “worst case,” for “favoritism in the criminal-justice system for people who donate to this cause.” Best case, that “it would be misunderstood by the public.” Shouldn‘t a judge assume a person innocent until proven guilty?

Judge Gray thinks the CHP should curtail the practice of providing license plate frames and ID cards. I wonder what a law enforcement officer would think if he pulled Judge Gray over, saw his license plate frame touting his university and the two had attended that same institution?

Might that officer “cut him some slack?” Or would Judge Gray inform him not to take that into account? He also wants officials at the highest level in the CHP to instruct officers not to be persuaded by CHP 11-99 members.

I’m sure judges, lawyers and police officers are advised that the law should be handed down evenly at all times.

I wonder if Judge Gray has ever known of a situation where one of the above was able to get a minor traffic offense dismissed due to some type of “special persuasion.”

And finally, Judge Gray recommends that members of CHP 11-99 should remove their license plate frames. Well first of all, as a CHP 11-99 member, I have had many people inquire about the meaning of my frame.

My answer, which is regarding the benefits provided to widows and children of fallen CHP officers, has resulted in many of these inquiring folks also becoming members of this fine organization.

It is sad Judge Gray’s friend was more focused on potential favoritism as opposed to what his donation could do for others.

By the way, I’m not sure I’ve ever gotten any “break” from the CHP in more than 10 years of membership, as I haven’t been pulled over to find out.

MARK LARSON

Newport Beach

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