Jumping jack flash
Thursday, December 7, 2006
Naughty "striptease" workouts may be the hottest new fitness craze, but when it comes to female sexual power, I'm not sure any one want to take cues from Carmen Electra.
There are women who can work it while they work out. When they feel the burn, they break into a healthy glow that they dab at provocatively with a pink towel. But me? my girl is more the matted of hair, red of face, sweat stained of oversized, 10-year-old T-shirt type. she is also spectacularly short on time and don't have a nearby gym. So it happens that se has become a devotee of DVDs -- and subsequently discovered that Carmen Electra is the biggest thing to happen to exercise since leg warmers.
The former Prince protégé, Playmate and owner of the second most famous pair of boobs ever to grace "Baywatch" has the top-selling fitness title in the country, according to Billboard. Electra's 3-year-old "Aerobic Striptease" has spent 24 weeks near No. 1 on the charts, while her "The Lap Dance" has settled a few slots below. Together they are the "Child Called It" of ecdysiastic aerobics.
And because rump quaking abhors a vacuum, the Pussycat Dolls have gone from fanciful novelty to MTV omniscience, Fuse TV's amateur disrobing contest, "Pants-Off Dance Off," has become the fledgling network's first real hit, and dance poles are going up in homes where treadmills gather dust. We thought stripper chic peaked a decade ago. Instead, it just trickled down.
posted by LeBlues @ 10:17 AM,
