Katz has grasped perhaps the most alluring detail of grey sweatpants: their sexiness is unexpected-and, at its best, un-self-aware. There are certain garments that are harbingers of overt seduction: women in a La Perla bra, he says, or a gay man in a jock strap. But the quotidian, mundane nature of grey sweats - who amongst us doesn’t own a pair? - adds to their accidental eroticism. “Many people are hot for nudity that’s somehow obscured,” says Tina Horn, host and producer of the long-running fetish podcast Why Are People Into That?! and the writer/creator of the sci-fi sex rebel comic SfSx. “It’s all about exhibitionism and voyeurism.
