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by scarface74 3162 days ago
I'll come at this from a different angle. In my 20s up until my mid 30s, I was a part time fitness instructor and surrounded by other fitness enthusiasts. We, both male and female loved the attention we got. We would run races with our shirts off (guys) and the women would run with clothes showing off their midriffs and post the pictures to Facebook. We would all go out in a group wearing things that we knew showed off our bodies.

We thought we worked hard for it, why not show it off?

When I went to interview for classes, I made it my mission to wear something that would show off all the time I spent in the gym and I know I got classes based on the fact that I didn't "look and act like a typical fitness instructor" - I was muscular, young, and came across more like a drill seargent than Richard Simmons.

I've met plenty of women and quite a few men who like the attention.

Even though I'm nowhere near in shape I was back then, when wearing regular professional clothes, I still have people asking me about my workout regimen. I never once hated the attention.