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09-27-2007, 12:41 PM
http://www.anizeen.com/images/stories/07y/09/0927fitness.jpgJapan's exercise industry is going through an unprecedented boom, but the heady times for the workout business have had the unexpected side-effect of sparking a wave of housewives undergoing "fitness flings".
"Fitness clubs have become like hallowed ground for those with latent desires to play around or with lecherous thoughts. They're places where people move around and build up a sweat, then can shower and do their make-up at the same place once they've finished," Sanae Kameyama, a journalist specializing in women's issues, tells Shukan Post.
"What that means is that exercise gives them an excuse for having had a shower before they go home to their husbands and hide the proof of them playing around."
According to the 2007 Leisure White Paper, Japan's fitness industry registered growth in 2006 for the fourth consecutive year.
"The 4.18 million registered members of fitness clubs in 2006 was the highest number ever," a fitness industry source says. "And the main reason for the growth was that daytime yoga and Pilates classes are really popular with women. Over half the entire membership is made up of women from their 30s to 60s."
Booming business is also proving to be fertile ground for monkey business. A 35-year-old housewife became involved in an extramarital affair with a man she met at her fitness club. Though their relationship began innocently enough as they helped each other exercise, their workout gradually become more wanton and was consummated one afternoon following a liquid lunch.
"I pretended to be drunk, so that made it easy for me to go along when he suggested we head to a hotel," she tells Shukan Post. "He still thinks he seduced me, but actually it was the other way around. Everything went just as I had planned."
Another 40-year-old housewife also used her health club to engage in a "fitness fling," starting off with a 45-year-old trading company employee she met while working out. In a sexless marriage, the affair gave her back her confidence and inspired her to bigger things.
"With more exercise, my body tone really improved and I was amazed at how much younger I looked," she says. "Soon other guys were starting to get attracted to me as well."
She notes that she did not disappoint those who had showed interest in her and now maintains her own harem of hunks.
Not all housewives into daily fitness club workouts are playing around, but the exercise environment apparently fosters carnal urges, latent or otherwise. More at: MSN.co.jp (http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/waiwai/news/20070926p2g00m0dm013000c.html)
Now, those are desperate housewives... @.@
"Fitness clubs have become like hallowed ground for those with latent desires to play around or with lecherous thoughts. They're places where people move around and build up a sweat, then can shower and do their make-up at the same place once they've finished," Sanae Kameyama, a journalist specializing in women's issues, tells Shukan Post.
"What that means is that exercise gives them an excuse for having had a shower before they go home to their husbands and hide the proof of them playing around."
According to the 2007 Leisure White Paper, Japan's fitness industry registered growth in 2006 for the fourth consecutive year.
"The 4.18 million registered members of fitness clubs in 2006 was the highest number ever," a fitness industry source says. "And the main reason for the growth was that daytime yoga and Pilates classes are really popular with women. Over half the entire membership is made up of women from their 30s to 60s."
Booming business is also proving to be fertile ground for monkey business. A 35-year-old housewife became involved in an extramarital affair with a man she met at her fitness club. Though their relationship began innocently enough as they helped each other exercise, their workout gradually become more wanton and was consummated one afternoon following a liquid lunch.
"I pretended to be drunk, so that made it easy for me to go along when he suggested we head to a hotel," she tells Shukan Post. "He still thinks he seduced me, but actually it was the other way around. Everything went just as I had planned."
Another 40-year-old housewife also used her health club to engage in a "fitness fling," starting off with a 45-year-old trading company employee she met while working out. In a sexless marriage, the affair gave her back her confidence and inspired her to bigger things.
"With more exercise, my body tone really improved and I was amazed at how much younger I looked," she says. "Soon other guys were starting to get attracted to me as well."
She notes that she did not disappoint those who had showed interest in her and now maintains her own harem of hunks.
Not all housewives into daily fitness club workouts are playing around, but the exercise environment apparently fosters carnal urges, latent or otherwise. More at: MSN.co.jp (http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/waiwai/news/20070926p2g00m0dm013000c.html)
Now, those are desperate housewives... @.@