I just saw a class advertised as “sexercise.” What in the world is that? It looks to me like it’s a cheap way to try to draw attention to a class by using sex, once again, to SELL.
While having a healthy sex life and exercising on a regular basis each have a positive impact on our physical and emotional health, and they can certainly enhance one another, I think of them differently. For me, sex is something really personal and intimate. Exercise, while it can have its moments of closeness and a different kind of intimacy, is not the same thing.
When sex is used to sell fitness, I find that the message actually cheapens both. Sex becomes a commodity rather than a connection, and fitness becomes something we do to make ourselves more “sexy” - therefore commodifying ourselves.
As a trainer, I hear daily about people’s dissatisfaction with their bodies. I do my best to help people improve their health and become more comfortable with themselves. For me, the beauty of a person is who they are radiating through the body they are in. So looks matter, but what really really matters to me is who’s inside.
So please, don’t try to sell me fitness by confusing it with sex. The two are different things. I will go to the gym or work out wherever I choose and feel good about myself, my body and my experience. When I choose to have sex with someone, I will do that on my terms - far out of sight of any marketing person!
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