Dear Straight Talk: I’m starting middle school this fall and will have to change for gym class in the locker room and even take communal showers. The gym teacher is strict about making everybody ...

DEAR STRAIGHT TALK: I'm starting middle school this fall and will have to change for gym class in the locker room and even take communal showers. The gym teacher is strict about making everybody ...

Communal showers after PE (aka gym class) in school may as well have been a torture device. Everyone who experienced that particular flavor of teenage hell remembers how stressful it was to have to ...

When I was in seventh grade, I asked my dad to wake me up twice a week when he went to the gym in our building’s basement so I could run on the treadmill. Back then, I was wildly insecure about my ...