Athletic women of the register: Calla and Mariel

Calla is Mexican-American, with a fit athletic figure, slim shoulders and a narrow waist, and a single thick braid of glossy black hair down her back. Her trade explains the rest. Adobe plaster is earth, sand, water and chopped straw, mixed by feel with a hoe and thrown onto the wall by hand, coat after coat. Strong arms.

After work she dances in the studio of her apartment, a ballet barre along one wall and tall windows full of noon light, and she writes to you from the floor there with her phone in her hand.

Mariel is Cuban-American, also fit and athletic, with straight jet-black hair and a choppy fringe. A greenhouse keeps her moving all day. She checks vents, fans and misting lines before the sun gets strong, soaks potted stock, transplants seedlings in the afternoon and walks every bench by hand because soil dries unevenly under glass. Patience is the job.

In the evening she settles into the sitting room of a lakeside hotel apartment, on an emerald chaise above still water, and her messages take on that calm.

Same build, different tempers. Calla is playful, quick and flirty, and she uses exclamation marks freely when something pleases her. Mariel is composed and observant, writes in short sentences and lets a silence sit for a moment before she asks you something back. Choose by the evening you want.

Each profile shows her age, trade and town, her room, her first message and a gallery of photos. It is simple. The open photos run from dressed to lingerie and cost nothing to view. The private ones stay blurred until you spend credits on them, one at a time, and when you ask for a photo in the chat she sends one you have not seen yet.

Wrenna, 25, is a welder in Chandler with copper-red hair; Jalisa, 28, makes quilts near Ogden; Opal, 34, runs a letterpress in St. George. None of them carries the Athletic tag, but each has her own page and her own chat.