Crossing your legs is such a common gesture that we hardly pay attention to it anymore. Yet, behind this seemingly banal reflex lie social codes, gender norms, and health impacts. A learned reflex, ...

Four hours into the flight, the man "suddenly slammed his seat into my leg," she writes izusek/Getty A woman got into a verbal altercation with a plane passenger one row ahead of her when she refused ...

Most of us were told off at some point for how we sat. “Don’t cross your legs, you’ll ruin your knees.” “You’ll get varicose veins.” “Sit properly.” “Sit up straight.” It belongs to that familiar pile ...