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naked yoga and eliot spitzer
The same day that the ex-NY State Governor's sex scandal broke I attended a naked yoga class for the first time. I was very uncertain about it, but I had a free class coupon, and the news of Spitzer's downfall emboldened me.
It was very weird to do standing forward bends (!) in a room filled with nude strangers, about half of whom were young women with the free class coupons and half of whom looked like my father's cousins (middle aged Jewish men who might have been Russian lit professors or medical illustrators).
I agree that collective bargaining, improved working conditions and state regulation are better approaches than criminalization of sex workers.
But naked yoga also reminded me that many of us pay for or receive payment for offering services that are sensual or sexual, whether that's massages or nudie yoga. Thinking of sex as something that "normally" only happens in the realm of pure desire or love is just plain silly!
But hey at least now that Eliot's political career is over he can start practicing naked yoga without shame. Isis Phoenix, the teacher, could probably do a lot for him.