# Since was yoga considered erotic or mature? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 3, 2019, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-was-yoga-considered-erotic-or-mature/839616 "2019-09-03T05:20:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-was-yoga-considered-erotic-or-mature/839616/41 "2019-09-03T22:46:42Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Well, if you do yoga bare, keep an eye on your pic-a-nic baskets. Nice! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-was-yoga-considered-erotic-or-mature/839616/42 "2019-09-04T00:43:01Z")
Om! Om on the range… ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-was-yoga-considered-erotic-or-mature/839616/43 "2019-09-04T00:48:00Z")
I ran into a video on youtube a few years ago that purported to be a demonstration of some sort of yoga that concentrates on the abdominals (_Nauli_, I think). The prime effect of all that ab-rolling and flexing (and they were very impressive) seemed to me intended to slowly lift the scarf tied across the shapely waist of the demonstrator and flash her lower **chakra** to the camera for a brief moment before she slid the scarf down again. The fact that this happened multiple times during the one video made it fairly clear to me that this was actually a “mature” video masquerading as a yoga demonstration to get past the YouTube Terms of Service with an “accidental nudity” excuse. So it seems that in some spaces, yoga could easily be flagged with “erotic” or “mature” if this is the sort of thing that goes on. (I know, it was technically a _yoni_ but chakra seemed funnier). ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-was-yoga-considered-erotic-or-mature/839616/44 "2019-09-04T13:43:32Z")
The green, green grass, of Om. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-was-yoga-considered-erotic-or-mature/839616/45 "2019-09-04T15:54:31Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > “Yogurt”, not “Yoga”. “Yogurt” is from a different culture. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-was-yoga-considered-erotic-or-mature/839616/46 "2019-09-04T17:33:59Z")
From planet Dagobah, Yoga is not. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-was-yoga-considered-erotic-or-mature/839616/47 "2019-09-04T18:51:00Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > From planet Dagobah, Yoga is not. When 800 years old you be - flex you will not. ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-was-yoga-considered-erotic-or-mature/839616/48 "2019-09-04T19:47:53Z")
> [@T-Minus](#): > > Or is it only mature when a woman does it? I don’t know, something smells a little sexist about it. I bet you 100 dollars if a guy did the EXACT same thing then it would be fine. Something else smells about it too, and the chance of said smell rises proportionally to the age of the yoga-ite. Yoga-ster? Yoga-er? If you know what I mean… ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-was-yoga-considered-erotic-or-mature/839616/49 "2019-09-04T21:08:13Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > The green, green grass, of Om. Namaste. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-was-yoga-considered-erotic-or-mature/839616/50 "2019-09-04T21:10:01Z")
Yoga today is better described as “YOGA! FUCK YEA!! LIGHT WEIGHT BABY! LIGHT WEIGHT!!!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/since-was-yoga-considered-erotic-or-mature/839616.md?page=2)