slo’s MONDAY 7/24 poll - Sun Bathing

[SandyinMonterey]

I was a sun bather in my teens and early 20's. Not anymore. If I'm outside, even in the ocean or a pool.....sunscreen and a hat, always.

 

[RedAngie]

I just mix my baby oil and iodine concoction then take one of these things with me to the beach.

 

[NAB]

Not a sun bather.

The sun is my morning walk and I have hat and a ton of sunscreen on. Not really a beach person either But when I did go when the kids were small I was under an umbrella and covered up.

When we go on cruises we find shade or cover and really don’t stay out very long. Prefer lounges on 4th deck with a book.

 

[jimmalru80]

I prefer the shade.

 

[disneychrista]

As a teenager I would love sun bathing. As an adult not a chance I am going to bath in the sun. If I am outside I am in the shade. Too much direct sun makes me sick.

 

[Babs Johnson]

I don’t intentionally “sunbathe,” but I like to go to the beach or pool at a hotel. I always use sunscreen and sometimes rent a beach umbrella.

My father said sunscreen was for sissies. He’d rather “be a man” and get red like a lobster and endure the pain than protect his skin. I remember several vacations when he was out of commission after a day or two in the sun.

 

[fla4fun]

Not a sunbather. When we lived in a house with a pool we had a covered patio, so if I wasn’t in the water I was in the shade. I am not a fan of hot weather.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

Not really a sunbather, no. I sat out in the sun by the pool last month on out trip to Wildwood reading a trashy romance, and I enjoyed myself, but I had a hat on and one towel over my shoulders and another across my legs.

 

[Skywalker3]

NO! TOo much history of skin cancer in my family. My mom had so much surgery, most of her nose removed reconstructed, her ear, very deep removals on both cheeks, etc in addition to what seemed like hundreds of spots burned /frozen off. I choose to look like a ghost, probably too much like a cadaver. I'min my early 50s, and I've had 2 cancerous spots taken off my back already, and glad my DH noticed them, I never would have.
I do enjoy some small amounts of time in the sun, but not long at all. Disney is always a challenge! Don't care for extended time at a pool or beach.

 

[Minnesota!]

I would love to be - I just don't find the daylight time to do anything about it. I find time each day to go put my face in the sun, but that is about all the time I can muster at this stage of my life.

 

[mumto3girls]

I enjoy reading on the beach with my chair pulled up to the edge so my feet get wet when the waves come in, but otherwise avoid the sun. I hate heat and burn easily. Other than being in the water (or at its edge) I am under an umbrella and have sunscreen on.

 

[CdnCarrie]

Absolutely! Then dive into our lake!

 

[tvguy]

My mom was an RN and drilled it in my head you don't sunbath. It turns your skin to leather. I had a cousin from Canada who used to like to sunbath when she visited, and she is younger than me and YES her skin is like leather.

Despite avoiding the sun, I already have had a skin cancer cut off my face.

 

[leebee]

I used to love laying out in the sun, as long as there was a breeze and I wasn't melting. I was right there with you, @RedAngie , with the baby oil/iodine, and don't forget lemon juice for the hair. However, I can't do much sun anymore. I have "issues" with most sunscreens and find I burn easier as I get older. I have had 3 bad sunburns in the last 40 years and now have a patch of freckles on my chest and shoulders, thanks to that. My doc watches them closely and we both agree that so far, I've been lucky to have not had any skin cancers. No sense in pushing my luck. Sometimes I miss the feeling of the warm sun on my skin, but now if I want a tan, I reach for a bottle of self-tanner. No more sun bathing for me!

 

[Dan Murphy]

No sunbathing these days here. Lie in the sun some as a kid and teen in the 50's and early 60's. Stylish to be tan. Most of my exposure though was just from being out in the sun, playing, not lying in the sun. But no sun protection back then, just sun tan oil to supposedly make you darker, no protection.

I remember the older (maybe 45-50+ years old) back then at a country club we belonged to for a couple years in the mid 50's. We belonged as 'social members', dining and swimming only. The ladies always were lying in their chaise lounges by the pools for hours. Their skin was almost an orange brown and so wrinkled that they looked like living mummies. The older ones, maybe 60+, looked like they were dead already.

Today I'm paying the price for my youthful indulgencies, visiting the dermotologist 2-3 times a year to have basl and squamus cancers and pre-cancers frozen off. Once in awile a scalpet is needed. Nothing major, but every visit. The doc says he's busy most of his days removing cancers from sun people.

 

[DisneyHardin]

I don't sunbathe at my house because I don't have any deck/patio to even put a lounger. If I am at the beach or at someone's pool, then I LOVE to lay in the sun and read.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

When I was young I enjoyed sunbathing... eventually I decided it was a good idea to NOT do that anymore.

 

[GAN]

I’m a man …I enjoy getting some sun, but wouldn’t describe it as “sunbathing”. I love the beach/ocean so hanging at the beach for 10-hours isn’t all that unusual. Just spent the last 4-days hanging at the beach and and cruising with the roof off my truck …it’s the first weekend I’ve been able to leave it totally open 4-days in a row. Admittedly, I don‘t spend more than maybe 2-hours in direct sun with the rest of the time spent under an umbrella/shade. The women “sunbathe“ and the guys hang out, listen to the waves, and drink a few beers …at least with my group.

 

[_19disnA]

Sunbathing to get a tan used to be a status symbol or those going somewhere warm in the Winter to get a tan to impress their friends. We know now a lot more about the impact of excessive sun exposure to our skin and the potential health issues in general.

 

[Forevermarypoppins]

I never liked it as a teenager when that's all most girls wanted to do.
Then in my later 30's /40 we had a nice pool and I was always floating in it, face up usually. Fast forward to my 50's and I get a small spot on my lip that eventually gets bigger and I start getting a bit self conscious because makeup isn't covering it well enough. I see a dermatologist who tells me it is a precancerous condtion: keratosis. The topical medication I first used does not work ( I was that lucky 5% group where it doesn't). The second medication does. Both of these meds though were NOT fun to use. We are talking about a slow, almost burning away of skin layers. A little uncomfortable and not very pretty. All in all in took about 3 months to get the results the Dr told me about.
I do not seek out the sun anymore and apply sunscreen regularly!!