After Shaundra gets divorced she finds herself a single parent and worries about how to keep the attention of her new man. She starts to think that she must beat professional strippers at their own game - and orders a stripper pole over the Internet. When she announces to her girlfriends that she has started pole-dancing, initially they are shocked. Eventually, each one of them finds that their lives are affected by the pole in different ways. This novel looks at turning points in the erotic lives of these friends, centering around the iconic device of the stripper's pole.