HOT BODIES HOT MINDS
Hot yoga, pilates, barre, and spinning classes are all part of a hot exercise trend happening now. One reason is that you burn more calories that way. With rooms sometimes cranked up to more than 105º, this is not for the faint of heart.
Bikram Yoga, the most prevalent practice at the moment, helps the body to engage in deeper and safer stretching, while relieving stress and tension.
Photo: Ron Sombilon
These heated methods can also sculpt and tone your body, strengthen your core, improve your cardiovascular system, and burn hundreds of calories while doing them. You just have to be extra careful, listen to your body, and stay well hydrated to stay safe, according to a recent study from the American Council on Exercise. Learn more about it here.
If you decide to give heat a try, give yourself about two weeks for your body to adjust to the idea. Body Heat, a hot Yoga and Pilates studio in Las Vegas, has a series of classes that can help you work up to extreme heat. They start you in a room heated to a relatively balmy 90-95º with no humidity, working up to a room heated to 98-102º with 40% humidity, to a ultra-challenging 105º room with 40% humidity.... stepping up the level of cardio work along the way.
Body Heat’s classes are choreographed to cool music and they claim this is the “most fun you will have while sweating with your clothes on!”
And then there’s the heat that comes on when clothes come off.
Photographer, Ryan McGinley, casts a totally fresh eye on the erotic heat bodies and minds can produce. Some of his photos make the heat connection quite literally, like his images of nude men and women playing with fireworks.
Some photos exude heat from the innermost cores, of both his subjects and himself. They draw out the heat of the viewer, pulling together a threesome of sensual perspectives.
When you’re ready to contemplate erotic writings, you might care to dive into some of the latest hot reads. From lightweight bodice rippers to granny porn, to fairly serious BDSM novels, there’s new bag of books to keep you all bothered this summer.
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On the trashier naughty candy end, “All He Wants
Or, if you are “old enough” to consider the latest trend of sultry silver, you might be interested in the story circulating around “Beantown Heat,” an erotic novel written in 2004, by Jaxine Daniels, hit the news recently with a boil because her nom de plume was outed. Some people were shocked to find the author was she was found to be US Republican conservative senator, Jaxine Bubis, and, for some, even more of a gasp—a “snow-capped” grandma. Her political opponents to her pro-control stance on gun legislation have tried to make this into a tawdry scandal, but they have missed the hard reality—the grandparent set today is a hot passionate lot, not willing to let their latter years grow cold. You’ll be frustrated if you try to find “Beantown Heat” and many other Jaxine titillations, as the Internet has been largely purged of their availability. Hmmmn.
The Daily Beast recently pointed out the growing trend of older women writing and reading erotic romance novels. What’s up with these new hot flashes? Grandma’s started hitting their sexual stride during the early arc of the sexual revolution. Once liberated, who wants to go back to being a prude? Ever? See a tasteful collection of erotic novels recently curated by The Huffington Post, including works from Eloisa James, Cris Anson, Tara Nina. And, of course mega-bestseller, E.L. James is no spring chicken.
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“Ageless Erotica
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In case you still are in need of enlightenment, it’s time you found out, female lust is a hot beautiful powerful reality. “What Do Women Want?: Adventures in the Science of Female Desire
“At last, we have a new perspective on the wilds of female desire, in rousing tableaux, as women, men, sexologists, bonobos, erotic gurus, and many others provide frank, vivid answers to the question that has haunted [us] for far too long: What do women want? The answer will fascinate all.” (Diane Ackerman, author of A Natural History of Love)
Wishing you a beautifully heated mind and body this summer.....
Check out the rest of our posts on heat this week in Arts/Design, Food/Drink, Mind/Body, Place/Time, Nature/Science, and Soul Impact. And enter our photo competition this week. The theme: Heat (Deadline, July 14th, 2013).
