Bla, bla, bla... instead of talking about, we should practise nudism. In fact this way of living is very simple, just keep your conscience clean and take off your clothes everytime it is possible. It is important, anyway, not to consider nudity as a fashion, just like bikini, boxers etc... but in spite of what I've said, I want to talk about bathing suits.
Human genius, among many things, invented some little pieces of coloured cloth called bathing-suits. Well, once they were not that little, in fact they left uncovered just hands, feet and face. The chance for men to bathe with bare chest caused scandal, but it has been the fist step to civilization, then other steps followed and that led to tanga.
Of course the last thing you need to bathe is a swimsuit! In fact when you are in the bath or under the shower you wear nothing. Anyway we can consider this a conquest, too, remembering that not far from today many people used to bath with their underwear on!
Many of you may be thinking that those pieces of cloth are necessary, because of decency, not to show private parts... Well, everybody is free to live the way they like best, but bathing-suits still are unconfortable clothes, and the fact that you bear them is linked to the culture you belong. Just to say, once women used to wear thigh corsets that squeezed their waists, while today they shows their belly and nobody cares.
So, figure yourself on a beach. You just arrived there. If under your clothes you are already wearing a bathing-suit, probably you sweated a lot. However many new kinds of cloth industry may invent, I don't think they can keep you fresh as much as cotton underwears... or nothing at all! If you are wearing pants, it is time to change them. What do you do? Cover yourself with a towel or a bath-robe, and do many contortions not to be seen by others, or you look for a bathing-hut, and you have to pay for it... well, maybe it is included in the bathing establishment's ticket.
Once you have your precious costume on (why can't it be an expensive model, on fashion?), you spread some sun tan lotion on your skin (hope it is a protective one). Maybe you don't pay attention to this, you act fast because you don't want to catch the eye, but around the borders of your bathing suit you never spread enough lotion. Perhaps you skim your swimsuit with the top of your fingers and do not realize that. You should apply your sun-tan lotion before put your swimwear on... that way you're lost if you cannot find a bathing-hut! Can you figure yourself spreading lotions under your towel? Beside this, have you ever noticed that near the elastic borders, expecially on women's breasts, your skin is strained and, even when you do not sunbathe, it becomes red? That's it. In fact now and then you move your bathing-costume, right? Anyway, pay attention to the fact that you easily burn around the borders of your swimsuit.
And now it is time to have a swim. Only one time I've tried boxers... how the hell can people swim with that thing on? They apply a brake to you, you have to work harder to swim. Tight bathing suits are better, in fact if I have to wear something for swimming, I choose them. Bathing costumes for women are usually thigh, so they do not hamper. All of them anyway, if there is a lot of sand suspended in the water, get full of sand. Be ready to move it out every few minutes.
Once you entered the water it is supposed you have to go out after a while. No, don't call me jinx! Then you run under the shower and... do you keep your wet costume on? Have you ever checked how long does it takes before your bathing-suit becomes dry? Expecially if you bathed in the salted water of the sea, and there is some breeze, it may take hours! Once it happened to me: after 2 hours of feeling humid I didn't know if I had to blame me, as I forgot another bathing-suit, or those who force us to wear such clothes. As I already said, maybe you want to change your wet swimsuit, so you have to use again you towel to hide, or go into a bathing-hut. And check if there are any holes in the walls!
If you do not have to wear a bathing-suit, life becomes very easy. You arrive at the beach... maybe you are already naked because you live in a nudist resort... I said, you arrive at the beach and simply undress, no need of a towel around you or a bathing-hut. If the place is good no-one will annoy you, because everybody, or nearly everyone, will be naked as you. You spread your sun lotion over your body, use a high protection on your private parts, expecially if you are shaved, and you are ready for the day. Girls do not have to shave part of their pubic hairs because they come out of their swimsuits, they can let them grow just as they are, if they like so. And then no signs of partial tan because of many costumes of different shapes. When it is time for swimming there will be nothing that will hamper you or that get full of sand. And you don't have to worry about waves that lower your top or your pants, that's because you are not wearing them! And when you come out of the water, you lay for few minutes under the sun and soo you become dry.
Sure, being naked on the beach may lead to some disadvantages: for example you cannot look everyday of a different color, or tell how much you've spent for your cloth. In return you'll be always on fashion, for all your life!
22nd October 1999
© 1999 by Birichino