Wetlook World Forum

I'm not one to believe that the sun is somehow becoming more and more intense as the years go by, but the intensity of the sun will depend on where on the earth you happen to be. Locations closer to the earth's poles tend to receive less solar radiation than those closer to the equator. Race or ethnicity can also play a role in sun burns and possible skin cancers. Certain races do not burn as easily as others and this is directly determined by how much melanin is in your skin. Peoples who are very fair, tend to have much less melanin than darker skinned people and tend to burn more readily (Although any person can get a sun burn and be subjected to skin cancer) Finally we have to consider that unlike most of human history, we all now have the ability to go to virtually any place on the globe in just hours. Most of the popular travel destinations tend to be warmer climates which also happen to be located closer to the equator, where the sun is more intense, and some not only vacation, but migrate to such places. In the U.S. many people from the northern states tend to move to the southern states, such as Florida, Arizona or Southern California. The rise in skin cancer is probably linked to these factors.  

Personally I don't like to delve into the conversation of baptisms, if someone wants to believe in God and baptize themselves as a symbol of their faith, I say go for it, but I don't see how one is relevant to the other. In general plenty of people who are more sensitive to the sun will tend to cover up in strong sunlight, no matter where they are, but typically the younger a person is, the more risks they seem to be willing to take with their skin until the damage is done.

Western societies place a great deal of emphasis on attire. Clothes can often indicate status or authority, but society is also conditioned us to think in terms of what attire is appropriate for certain conditions. People can posses various types of clothes, such as formal, work, casual, etc. For inclimate weather, a person wears perhaps a coat or a raincoat. It's no different for a beach environment, the appropriate attire being a bathing suit, shorts, swim trunks or bikini.

I'm sure someone knows the history of the bathing suit, but a century ago bathing suits tended to cover more of the person, and in certain parts of the world, this is still true, but to reverse the trend of less and less, I wouldn't want to depend on the government to mandate it, because if they did, we might not think of wetlook as anything unique any more.

What I find attractive about wetlook isn't merely seeing the female form in wet clothes, it's how wet clothes cling and hang to the body, but it also has a unique-ness about it. I happen to think that wetlook is contradictory to the societal norms. To wear attire in a totally unusual way, under inappropriate situations, or to use (wear) in a way never intended, the contrast to what society considers normal, is completely unique. However you wish to explain how you view wetlook, it has a certain attraction to us.

In a medical sense I wouldn't see it as a solution to a problem, just as I don't see it as a source of attraction when someone is practicing their religious beliefs. There is plenty of medical information available to safely tan and protect yourself from sun burns and the possibility of cancer.

Sincerely EdR