Does Fitness Improve Your Sex Life?

There are some conversations that at the beginning sound like a good idea but the more you get into it, the more you realize that you’re going places you never intended. Take, for instance, explaining the rules of Clue to a five year old. “Mommy, why is there a crooked stick in here?” “It’s a …

Managing Male Expectations: Me Jane, You Jerk

A friend called me today with an interesting conundrum. Simply put, despite her best efforts, she gets hit on at the gym all the time. Now, before you go off rolling your eyes and muttering about how pretty people need real problems, she brings up an interesting point. As women, we have to walk a …

Shaking Your Moneymaker – All In the Name of Fitness

Inhibitions are funny things. I have one friend who says she could never do a hip-hop dance class with me because she’s “not sexy like that” and yet has no problem asking the male cashier at Walgreens if the temporary tattoo she is buying would look better on her left ta-ta or her right. It’s …

Body Confidence: What Not To Do

“You’re prettier but she’s way sexier.” Thus started one of the worst back-handed compliments I’ve ever received. “She just knows how to use what she’s got. You’re… kinda spastic.” The speaker was Shane, my rakishly handsome neighbor my freshman year of college. My roommates and I all had massive crushes on him which he both …