Skinny dipping

Skinny dipping, or skinny-dipping is swimming naked. The term is derived by a somewhat archaic use of the word skinny, meaning "having to do with skin".

Examples of skinny dipping in modern culture

• On Golden Pond (1981) Family skinny dipping to demonstrate open-minded nature of parents
• Hair (1979) Emphasizes anarchic Hippie style
• many, many other films use skinny-dipping to suggest trust, emotional intimacy, intimacy with Nature, even shades of baptism, but often just for the nudity and often leading to activity that is not skinny-dipping.
• Skinny-dipping (Au Pairs, The) (2005) ISBN 1416903828 For Grade 9 and up. Culturally, cutting edge.
• Several other popular books use, essentially, Skinny-dipping as the title.
• Most literature on Naturism uses the phrase "skinny-dipping" to set a relaxed tone, as in the YMCA photo
• Skinny dipping can refer to swimming offshore from Nudist Beaches
• Norman Rockwell painting for Saturday Evening Post
• Common subject of Old Masters oil paintings, usually bucolic
• The REM song Nightswimming refers to skinny dipping (specifically at night!)

Places where illicit skinny dipping takes place :

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Stinson Beach, San Fransisco CA

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Canfield Marsh, Long Island Sound, Norwalk CT

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