2 June

‘Manspreading’. Sitting with your legs spread is actually much healthier for your hip joints. When you’re sharing a tight seat, sure, put the legs together. But men sit like that naturally because that’s the way the body knows you should be sitting. Women are trained not to do it from a young age, because it’s considered ‘unladylike’. (If a woman sitting with legs apart makes you think of sex, you’re probably always thinking about sex, and that’s the actual problem.) It needs effort to force the legs together, and hurts the hips. If you sit at a desk a lot, you will tend to get very tight hips because having your legs together all day forces the hips to work the wrong way. If you sit with your legs at about 11 and 1 position (on a clock), you’ll also find your posture is more effortlessly upright.