Why is swimming in the nude called skinny dipping?
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Skinny dipping, or skinny-dipping is swimming naked, i.e. without any swimming suit. A synonym is skinny diving.\n\nThe term is derived by a somewhat archaic use of the word skinny, meaning "having to do with skin", as it exposed the naked hide.
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LMAO....Yes in my younger days a bunch of us use to pool hop around the neighborhood and we use to go naked and if someone would turn the lights on we would all wait for them to see us and then we would all bend over and slap our as*es and then take off back over the fence....It was fun at the time...Don't know if I could do it these days but we will see!!!!!!!
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It's the nipple.  Which begs the question, if nipples are obscene, why can men go shirtless?  \n\nA related story:  Many years ago a friend was busted for going topless on a Santa Cruz beach.  The above statement was her argument; and the judge ruled in her favor, so for a while it was legal to go topless in Santa Cruz.
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Nudists work up a tan just like anyone else. Sunscreen, exposure and shade when their skin has had enough sun. But because they don't wear clothes unless nature or society outside their group requires it, nudists also get wind burned which helps keep their skin tanned so they can withstand more sun.\n\nThink about driving your car with your window down on a cloudy day. You are wearing a t-shirt and your arm is resting in the window. Even though the sun is hidden behind clouds you can still end up with your arm looking sun burned from exposure to the wind.\n\nThe combination of sun and wind can keep their skin tanned longer so they don't need as much protection as a non-nudist does.
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It figures that "The Guy" would say that it is "overrated". The whole theory of "skinny-dippping" is erotic is because it is out of the norm. Most people in this country are taught that nudity is wrong... When it is actually " au natural".
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cause most women that would ride a harley would go swimming in a bikini top and cut off jeans?\n\ni know i'm stereotyping but i'm just joking
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Swimming is a technique to move unaided through water. This article concentrates on human swimming, a popular recreational activity and a competitive sport. There are many health benefits of swimming, but it also entails risks.\n\nSwimming has been known since prehistoric times. Drawings from the stone age were found in "the cave of swimmers" near Wadi Sora (or Sura) in the southwestern part of Egypt. Written references date back up to 2000 B.C., including Gilgamesh, the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Bible (Ezekiel 47:5, Acts 27:42, Isaiah 25:11), Beowulf, and other sagas. In 1538 Nicolas Wynman, German professor of languages, wrote the first swimming book "Colymbetes". Competitive swimming in Europe started around 1800, mostly using breaststroke. The front crawl, then called the trudgen was introduced in 1873 by John Arthur Trudgen, copying it from Native Americans.\n\nSwimming was part of the first modern Olympic games in 1896 in Athens. In 1902 the trudgen was improved by Richard Cavill, using the flutter kick. In 1908, the world swimming association Federation Internationale de Natation (FINA) was formed. Butterfly was first a variant of Breaststroke, until it was accepted as a separate style in 1952.\n\nTechnique\nThe human body is composed primarily of water, and thus has a very similar density. But since only roughly 70% of the body is water, it is slightly less dense than the surrounding water, which exerts a buoyant force on it. Thus, staying afloat requires only a slight propelling of water downward relative to the body, and transverse motion only a slight propelling of water in a direction opposite to the direction of intended motion, due to generally low hydrodynamic drag. This propelling is typically accomplished by cupping the hands and using them as paddles, and by kicking the legs to push water away from the body.\n\nWith practice, technique can convert a slow or average swimmer to at least a moderately fast swimmer. Since speed converts directly into distance, the same techniques that improve speed also aid one to move farther with the same effort. The torso and the legs should be kept as much as possible parallel to the surface of the water. Dropped legs or a slanted torso dramatically increase drag. The hand should be extended forward of the head as much as possible. This increases the average length at the water-line, substantially increasing speed. This is an effect long used by boat designers, and unconsciously used by "naturally good swimmers."\n\nThe time spent on the side should be maximized because the torso is narrower front-to-back than side-to-side on most swimmers. This reduces the frontal cross-section, reducing drag further, and also increasing the ratio between the body's water-line-length and width. Similar improvements are possible by orienting the narrowest direction of head, hands, legs and arms into the water. The torso is by far the most critical. The motion of the hand, arm, and leg from the back to the front should be in the air for as much as possible, and in the water, oriented as perfectly as possible, because the returning appendage has to move at least twice as fast as the swimmer, and in the water generates eight times the drag (which increases with the cube of the speed) of an equal amount of torso frontal area.\n\nThe basic "catch" of the water is not nearly as critical as the above items. Most swimmers simply grab water with their hand flat, or the fingers slightly spread, and then draw it smoothly down their body. None of the above techniques require improved strength. With strength training, the hands and feet can be extended further into the water, gaining more propulsion. For beginners, increased strength brings only small improvements if the above strategies (minimising drag and lengthening water-line) are not optimal. A number of swimming styles have been developed based on the implementation of some or all of these principles.
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hmmmm, my friends and i never used to run around naked together.  as a matter of fact, the one time we went skinny dipping we all kept our underwear on.  and as for running around odd places together naked---i don't ever recall doing that either.\n\nok, so you're getting a woody while your naked with your friends?  this sounds like a case of 'brokeback mountain lust' to me.\n\nface it, you're a fudgepacker, a rough ranger.  go away, sissy boy.
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whats with the guy that said 'no, but i jerked off'? i guess thats supposed to be clever. anyway i dont recall any 'hot' puddles but i like to go out in the rain instead of waiting til after it stops, barefoot if im just stepping outside.
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No, it's a placebo.\nread this article...\n\nhttp://uk.gizmodo.com/2006/02/28/skinny_water_slims_down_nothin.html
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It's a form of underwater swimming
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maybe to show us that they "really" went to the shower...Ü that's what we all know, we wear a towel after taking a bath, isnt it? even children knew that.Ü\nif for the rest of the show they are "naked", that is to show their real costume or character. and i don't think its bad (that they dont wear bottoms) because there are no drawings of their private part. its for us, adults, to "imagine" what's under there, but the children really don't mind.Ü
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I was at the Calgary Olympics in 1988, and one of the local strip clubs was having a "Miss Nude Olympics" show.  But then the lawyers for the IOC showed up, and threatened legal action for using the word "Olympics" without permission.  So the show was renamed "Miss Nude O-Word", to avoid litigation.
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Because your mind is telling you skinny...skinny...calories...\ncalories...fat...fat.  Change your thinking!!
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Pool - skinny dipping\nRestaurant - Eating Naked\nother - taking clothes off
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skinny dippin'\nLOL! IWOULD LISTEN TO IT FOR THE NAME!\nPEACE OUT!
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If you were naked on the beach when everyone else was clothed, that might cause some embarrasment, but if everyone else is naked, then pretty soon, you'll notice, but not very much. And if you're used to wearing a bikini, that highlights your physical attributes even more than being naked, by breaking up the natural visual line of the body with signs that say 'there are breasts here', for example. So, going naked at a naked beach is actually more modest, in a strange and wonderful way. Thinking of it that way should resolve some of your embarrasment issues.