http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/6-reasons-sleep-naked-221500649.html
QuoteA recent study showed that less than 10 percent of Americans sleep in the buff. Whaa? Not only is it dead sexy, experts swear naked sleep is actually good for you. We asked them to spill on the top reasons you should ditch those pajamas for good.
By Natasha Burton
1. You'll Air Out Your Hoo-Ha
Jennifer Landa, MD, author of The Sex Drive Solution for Women, says that sleeping naked can be healthier for your private parts. While it's totally normal to have yeast and bacteria down there, the warm environment can sometimes cause an overgrowth. One way to prevent infections is to "air it out" and go commando.
2. You'll Sleep Better
While you might like being cozy and warm at night, it's actually important to have a cooler environment when you sleep, says Lisa Shives, MD, who sits on the National Sleep Foundation's board of directors. "Your body temp progressively declines as you sleep, which is a natural tendency of the body, so being too warm with heavy PJs and blankets can disrupt that." Sleeping naked, she says, can help your body stay cool.
3. You'll Look Hotter
According to naturopath Natasha Turner, best-selling author of The Hormone Diet, being too warm at night disrupts the release of melatonin and growth hormone-your main anti-aging hormones-into your body. "As your body temperature drops, growth hormone is released and works its regenerative magic," she says. And that keeps your skin and hair looking awesome.
4. You'll Lose Belly Fat
Sleeping naked helps you sleep more soundly, which will allow your levels of the stress hormone cortisol to decrease as you rest, keeping your energy and hunger levels in check, Turner says. When your sleep is disrupted, your cortisol will be too high when your alarm goes off, making you more likely to wake up hungry for comfort foods-and more likely to overeat them.
5. You'll Feel More Confident
Sleeping naked feels great, Landa says. "We can tune in to sensations like the feeling of the sheets and the coolness of the air, which can be very sexy" she says. "And feeling sexy increases confidence."
6. You'll Have Better Sex
Landa says that sleeping naked is great for your relationship because laying skin to skin will increase feel-good chemicals like the cuddle hormone oxytocin. "Sleeping naked encourages sexier relationships," she says. You'll feel more relaxed and be more in the mood for intimacy.
Yay for Cosmo articles. :D
Damn it appears I have ruined my life by sleeping in boxers all these years.
Quote from: garbon on January 23, 2013, 02:12:25 PM
http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/6-reasons-sleep-naked-221500649.html
1. You'll Air Out Your Hoo-Ha
It's always good to see technical terms like this in use! :lol:
:)
I'm ahead of the curve. :cool:
Disgusting.
Quote from: Valmy on January 23, 2013, 02:17:54 PM
Damn it appears I have ruined my life by sleeping in boxers all these years.
Well there's no time like today. :hug:
Quote from: garbon on January 23, 2013, 02:12:25 PM
Yay for Cosmo articles. :D
:thumbsup:
I grew up reading cosmo articles and it didn't do me any harm. :unsure:
Quote from: mongers on January 23, 2013, 02:31:10 PM
Quote from: garbon on January 23, 2013, 02:12:25 PM
Yay for Cosmo articles. :D
:thumpsup:
I grew up reading cosmo articles and it didn't do me any harm. :unsure:
I did too. :zipped:
Quote from: Ed Anger on January 23, 2013, 02:38:16 PM
Quote from: garbon on January 23, 2013, 02:28:14 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on January 23, 2013, 02:27:43 PM
Disgusting.
Can you be more specific?
I don't care for people's giblets rubbing against me in the night.
The article assumes that you'll be sharing the bed with your significant other.
Who are all these people you have in your bed? :ph34r:
Quote from: Ed Anger on January 23, 2013, 02:38:16 PM
Quote from: garbon on January 23, 2013, 02:28:14 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on January 23, 2013, 02:27:43 PM
Disgusting.
Can you be more specific?
I don't care for people's giblets rubbing against me in the night.
Maybe you should try to not sleep in the middle of a crowded club or bar and try it with your wife in your own bed.
No don't, you have enough kids.
:ph34r:
Quote from: Valmy on January 23, 2013, 02:17:54 PM
Damn it appears I have ruined my life by sleeping in boxers all these years.
you don't have a hoo-ha so you're good
Only had to wear my jim-jams for two nights so far this winter. Must be why I'm so alluring.
I feel uncomfortable having my sheets touch my nether regions.
I pretty much always sleep naked (if it is very cold, I may put on a t-shirt, never anything below waist) and almost always with an open window. :cool:
Quote from: Martinus on January 23, 2013, 04:17:24 PM
I pretty much always sleep naked (if it is very cold, I may put on a t-shirt, never anything below waist) and almost always with an open window. :cool:
I hope you pull down the blinds at least. :yuk:
Quote from: Martinus on January 23, 2013, 04:17:24 PM
I pretty much always sleep naked (if it is very cold, I may put on a t-shirt, never anything below waist) and almost always with an open window. :cool:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfmAeijj5cM
Is that a vid of Marti sleeping naked? I need to know before I click.
Don't worry, you can't see anything naughty, he's wearing a t-shirt.
Women who insist on always wearing pajamas ftl.
Quote from: Josephus on January 23, 2013, 06:22:39 PM
Is that a vid of Marti sleeping naked? I need to know before I click.
It is not a vid of Marti sleeping naked. The video is not a rick roll and it is perfectly SFW.
Edit: though it probably got past the sensors the same way the name "Pussy Galore" and the song title "Norwegian Wood" did.
Cat doesn't seem to mind.
Wait, some people sleep with clothes on?