Okay, now this is bad. While playing Scrabulous on Facebook, I saw this ad that one could click on to "learn how you can shrink your waist." And the ad is for a muffin top (e.g., fat sticking out over the top of one’s jeans). Why make women feel bad about their "muffin top" the way men feel bad about their "beer bellies"? Yes, women have abdominal fat but that is a good thing when it comes to health and fertility (at least in small amounts, anyway). Plus, when fashion transitioned from high rise pants to low rise pants a few years ago, suddenly many more millions of women who would have never previously known the muffin top effect suddenly were experiencing it. Tyra Banks, on her show, talked about her own muffin top.

When women and men feel bad or self-conscious about their bodies, sex suffers. Plain and simple. Can we please help each other to feel good about our bodies?

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