It's Hot Outside

[whitehedr]

97 in the Chicago land area. Sitting' in the gazebo beating the heat.

RWW

[Barnard]

You'd think common sense would overthrow brainwashing, but it still doesn't seem to occur to people outside the nudist community that exposing your skin helps release heat from the body. How much longer do you think this heat will go on. If you believe in God, you could say that the heat is a direct message that it is absurd to shun the body.

[nudeyooper]

There was no beating the heat yesterday. Even doing work in an air conditioned space was uncomfortable, but being nude made it less so. When I had to be outside a pair of bikini briefs enabled the maximum cooling effect without the heat of the law adding to the discomfort. The irony comes from the fact that anybody who wanted to look, could see my entire body. The briefs easily showed the size of my penis, and once they were soaked with sweat, you could see that I have been circumcised. Yet I was legal. Did I offend? Probably, but that offense was more likely to come from the fact that I am technically obese, covered with hair, have breasts bigger that the women running track in the Olympic trials, and that I was not on a beach. If I were dressed the same way forty years ago, I would probably have turned heads too, but the svelte muscular body of a 22 year old would have been admired. So context has a lot to do with whether one is offensive or not, and though the rules may seem silly and the distinctions between nude and clothed blurred, we are who we were brought up to be. Though I am happy being a home nudist, I would be happier if I could have shed that one relatively insignificant garment yesterday without fear of breaking a law.

[sunfisher]

It's finally starting to get nice here in Reno. Today was a good day to do a little chunky dunkin (fat peoples version of skinnydipping). My pool f-i-n-a-l-l-y got up to a comfortable 82degrees with a bit of sunshine in the low 90's.

Gene

[alfredr]

Yes, it's hot outside. And you see people wearing black clothes! Did they never learn that light colored clothes are cooler? Or that nothing is cooler than clothes?

But, referring to nudeyooper's post, I remember about 50 years ago, my dad taking us kids to the local river beach, and as we arrived, a friend told my dad to make sure his belly button was covered because the local police were patrolling for indecent exposure. But shirtless was fine, and normal. That doesn't seem to be the case now.

[nudeyooper]

Yes, those were the days. They could not have live models for undergarments on TV. I Dream of Jeanie could not show her navel, and if Mort Walker drew Miss Buxley in the Beetle Baily Comic Strip with a belly button, the censors cut it out. A skimpy bikini probably had twice the material in it as today's normal two piece suit. Still think nude is better than what qualifies as covered up, but my opinion does not count for all that much.

[alfredr]

Actually, I think I remember a TV commercial with a live model for a bra, but she wore it over top of a dress. Possibly a Playtex Living Bra.

But back to the subject, It is hot and people are over dressed. Layers of clothes, dark clothes. Like they never lived without air-conditioning. I think in this heat wave and loss of power, etc., some governor said something about the hardship of millions of people without air-conditioning. Well, yes, but it's only in the last thirty or so years that air-conditioning became common for most everyone. Before that, we lived without it. Not having power for fans, that would make life difficult. And we always seemed to have hay to bale in this weather.

[nudeM]

Thought of the day ---how did people survive (some still do) way before air conditioning was available? Seems to me, nudity would have been more accepted and skinny dipping was the norm on extremely hot days. Just relaxing around with nothing on was a way to beat the heat, as some of us still do. I do feel for those who are experiencing the latest heat wave, but seems to me, nudity would not be an issue, as it could be an excuse as a way to stay cool.

[Kouak]

And guys use to dress in suits during the summer in the South. You can see an example of it in "To Kill A Mockingbird." My suit would have been drenched.

[Evernude]

It's supposed to be 102 here today and 107 by Wednesday. Been naked since I got home from work Friday afternoon and won't put on a thing until I get dressed for work again Monday morning. The whole family spends most of the day in the pool, which is shaded. I really love it when we can have a naked weekend. Usually, we have things to do that require clothes and leaving our private clothing free zone. Well, back to the pool