The Nude Life

I was reminded over the weekend exactly how much heat is given off by nude human bodies.

It’s a considerable amount of heat. Put 20 or 30 or 50 nude folks together in a house, as we had at our holiday party over the weekend, and the indoor temperature rises pretty quickly. All of that bare skin is radiating heat from several square feet of surface area per person. With normal human skin temperature at about 91F (33C), that is a LOT of heat being dumped into a rather small space.

As the party started on Saturday night and the crowd arrived, the indoor air temperature in the house was on the cool side of comfortable for being nude. As more and more folks arrived, it warmed up quite quickly. By the time the evening was in full-bore and we had a large complement of 40-plus nudists scattered throughout three or four large rooms in the house, everyone was quite comfortably warm–to the point where thermostat control for the furnace showed an air temperature of some 82F (28C). Needless to say, no one was chilled.

I remember one nudist party we hosted a year or so ago, on a very chilly night. We were afraid our guests would be cold, and so we kept the temperature in the house up to about 84F before they started to arrive. Once everyone got to the party and got their clothes off, we soon realized that cooling was going to be the problem, not heating. I not only wound up turning the furnace down for the evening, but we eventually had to open a few windows to let in some cool night air and bring the indoor temperature down to a more comfortable level.

Add that to how warm anyone feels after climbing out of the hot tub, then heading back indoors to the warmth generated by dozens of their fellow nudists, and the story is the same: nudists give off excess heat as compared to clothed folks, and shedding your clothes can actually cut your heating load — if you have enough nude friends to help you, that is!

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