Article: BARE FACTS ON SUN WORSHIPERS

It seems that all the flap these days over harmful ultraviolet rays would be tough on sun worshipers.

You know what I mean by sun worshipers, don't you? Everyone old enough to have seen those magazines from Sweden or someplace -- the ones where the three color separations didn't come out quite right -- knows what "sun worshiper" means.

It was, of course, the 1950s code word for nudist.

As a kid, I was never quite sure whether nudism was a belief or school of thought -- as the suffix "ism" would suggest -- that one could engage in only after taking off one's clothes.

(How does an "ity" become an "ism," anyway, as in the practice of "stupidism?" But that is an etymological ...

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