XL Love: How the Obesity Crisis Is Complicating America's Love Life

With two out of every three Americans overweight or obese, it's all hands on deck—scientists are studying how excess fat changes physical and mental health, demographers are calculating how it's shortening life spans, and economists are debating the impact it has on America's productivity and global competitiveness. But how weight affects intimacy and sexuality is barely discussed.

Yet it's a question of high importance for the tens of millions of Americans who are overweight or obese and ha...