Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Proud of Our Patripotestal Visceral Adipose

          Of the exactly 2,347 pseudoscientific facts that I learned as a child (from all of my pluripotent adolescent friends and my unus-non parents, teachers, and religious leaders), “pseudoscientific fact #261" came from one of my childhood friends, who said that it is inevitable that if you have a strong stomach as a teen, you’re going to have a fat belly as an adult. (My friend fell prey to that pseudo-fact [since you may guess what his belly looks like now], but I have to admit that I fell prey to “pseudo-fact #423,” perpetrated by my physiology teacher, Coach Poole, who said that the human body is the only machine that, no matter how hard you push it, just gets stronger. While I don’t have the fat belly, I do have the worn-out body.)

          An interesting, alleged scientific fact of the year 2017, is “pseudo-fact #3,728,” which claims that people who go around naked are happier. Why? Because they realize that the perfect bodies that usually go around naked are not the norm and they have a lot in common with those who have imperfect bodies. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/…/Being-naked-makes-happier-bodi….

          As I have previously mentioned in my posts, I currently go to a gym where the saunas and Jacuzzis are exclusive and part of the shower area. It is an interesting study in human behavior. Having grown up at a time when we did go to gym class and did shower afterward . . .  a time when we did go swimming and sometimes did not wear clothes, I believe there are situations where being naked is not a big deal to me. However, it does not go unnoticed that many of the men who go to the Sports Mall are very proud of their visceral adipose.   Many of them are – mildly putting it – enormous, but they seem to enjoy just laying on the various surfaces that are so-equipped to hold them in the men’s sauna for many minutes at a time, revealing everything that makes us so grateful that there is clothing for us all to wear and be depressed.

          Yet, who can begrudge these men their exquisite happiness? They have proof of their strong-bellied past that now hangs over to obscure their manhood, and they can happily, to the improvement of their mental health, parade it around at the Sports Mall, with those of similar habitus. Vive diu felix nuditate!

Loren M. Lambert © February 8, 2017

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