{"id":9738,"date":"2011-05-03T08:30:17","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T15:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/?p=9738"},"modified":"2011-05-03T12:39:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T19:39:44","slug":"obviously-obvious-news-being-fat-ruins-your-sex-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/obviously-obvious-news-being-fat-ruins-your-sex-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Obviously Obvious News: Being Fat Ruins Your Sex Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9739\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9739\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9739\" title=\"fatguy\" src=\"http:\/\/bcu2-shared.onlinebootycall.com.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/fatguy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/fatguy.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/fatguy-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9739\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">via thinksquad.net<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I got really addicted to the show &#8216;Heavy&#8217; last season on A&amp;E. Like its predecessor, Intervention, Heavy provided for me an hour of entertainment that was not just gross, shocking, and somewhat disturbing, but also strangely comforting. Something like &#8220;well at least I&#8217;m not THAT bad,&#8221; as I broke into my second box of Cheez-its of the night.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, the season is over, but the Obviously Obvious news about obese people is not &#8211; according to a study by Truls Ostbye, documented in the <a href=\"http:\/\/yourlife.usatoday.com\/sex-relationships\/story\/2011\/05\/Obese-people-less-sexually-satisfied\/46699404\/1\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today Sex &amp; Relationships column<\/a>, obese people tend to have less satisfied, sexually, than the general population. Overweight women, especially, were unsatisfied, even less satisfied than cancer survivors, who the scientist studied back in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I say this is obviously obvious because <em>DUH<\/em>, fat people are going to be less comfortable taking their clothes off and writhing on top of each other. <em>DUH<\/em>. But also <em>duh <\/em>because based on my research (watching Heavy twice a week for six months), extremely obese people have trouble even walking a quarter of a mile, let alone holding up their vehicle-sized torsos. And also<em> DUH,<\/em> save for some people who have &#8220;BBW&#8221; in their recent search history, obesity isn&#8217;t normally a quality people look for in a mate.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;Well, I&#8217;d like someone who shares my love of wine tasting, who loves animals, and who has a BMI in the morbidly obese range. I know, I know &#8211; too good to be true!&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>So thanks, <strong>USA Today Sex and Relationships<\/strong> column, you really taught us an important lesson today: I should get into the science field because apparently you can just ask fat people questions for a living.<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-9738\" data-postid=\"9738\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-9738 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 I got really addicted to the show &#8216;Heavy&#8217; last season on A&amp;E. Like its predecessor, Intervention, Heavy provided for me an hour of entertainment that was not just gross, shocking, and somewhat disturbing, but also strangely comforting. 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