The Nude Life

Yesterday’s post about the nude workweek made reference to the lowered laundry load that remaining unclad for most of the week affords. And although our laundry for the week is significantly less when we spend most of our time nude than when weather or other factors require more frequent textile use, we do wind up with a lot of towels around the house that need laundering each week.

Towels, of course, are the one thing a nudist needs with them at all times. Sitting on your own towel is one of the few “hard-and-fast” rules of proper nudist etiquette. Indeed, it’s one of the few things that newcomers to the nude life have to remind themselves of before it becomes second-nature. And during the warm and clothes-free summer months here at our house, we do seem to go through a lot of towels.

Our practice is to “stage” our own towels on the chairs and couches we favor, so that I have a towel always in place in the chairs and the section of the sofa I regularly use; my wife does the same. Before long, we have a half-dozen large beach towels spread around the house. And we use those towels day after day for most of a week, since they remain very clean thanks to proper personal hygiene.

Yet we wind up with a pretty full load of towels in the wash each week. Does the amount of laundry we eliminate by living nude wind up being offset by an equal or larger amount of towels to be laundered? It would be an interesting experiment to run if such an exact measure can be made of it.

But it’s at least worth considering that the number of beach towels used by a practicing nudist might be in the same neighborhood of square footage of textiles as the clothes they would wind up wearing if they didn’t spend most of their time nude.