Sun Apr 11, 2021, 12:46 PM
Star Member MineralMan (137,441 posts)
Skin Peeling As Mutual Grooming - Things We Used to Do, But Mostly Not Any More
Last edited Sun Apr 11, 2021, 02:19 PM - Edit history (1)
OK...Am I weird, Or does anyone else remember peeling sunburned skin off of your HS sweetie or vice-versa in the summer?
I was in high school in California between 1959 to 1963. There was no sunscreen back then. So, sunburns were common. In fact, cultivating a tan often led to overdoing it and losing your carefully built suntan through peeling. Nobody knew then about the sun causing skin cancers, so we all worked on a lovely tan every summer.
Skin peeling between couples was yet another excuse for mutual grooming and fooling around.
I don't think today's teens are doing that any longer. SPF-50 anyone?
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215325084He's weird, alright, Definitely qualifies as a weirdo.
Response to MineralMan (Reply #4)Sun Apr 11, 2021, 12:53 PM
Star Member Nevilledog (23,455 posts)
5. I have no such memories....
I'm with Nevilledog.
Response to Nevilledog (Reply #5)Sun Apr 11, 2021, 12:57 PM
Star Member MineralMan (137,441 posts)
10. Maybe it was a California small town thing.
Not much to do for teens in those small towns. We had to find our own entertainments, I guess.
That's entertainment!
Response to MineralMan (Reply #10)Sun Apr 11, 2021, 01:13 PM
Star Member Arkansas Granny (29,417 posts)
15. It was a thing is rural SW Missouri. No sunscreen back then.
Peeling a sunburn is not something you did for just anyone.
Arkansas Granny admits to having the same kink.
Response to MineralMan (Original post)Sun Apr 11, 2021, 12:50 PM
Star Member PCIntern (21,397 posts)
2. Yes! We did that...
I remember her well. She also used to do this very weird thing: when she’d greet me after like a couple days absence, she’d unmercifully scratch my forearms, drawing blood. I kid you not.
Response to MineralMan (Reply #7)Sun Apr 11, 2021, 01:30 PM
Star Member PCIntern (21,397 posts)
17. Great stuff...
She was hotter than hot
PCIntern is getting turned on just thinking about it.
Response to MineralMan (Original post)Sun Apr 11, 2021, 02:09 PM
Star Member The Magistrate (90,633 posts)
24. Not Something We Did, Sir
But you do remind me of the all-time worst sunburn I ever got.
This was during my adventurous youth. I was on a small Caribbean island, covering my expenses with blackjack at the casino there. These weren't so much, I was staying at a little family hotel that drew mostly foot-loose student sorts.
One day someone insisted on a trip to the beach. Not just any beach, and not really in fact a beach, actually. There was a small inlet in a rocky patch of coast, with a mere fringe of white sand. It was filled with window-clear water. You could see straight to the bottom, perhaps fifteen feet down, and all the fascinating little things down there like jewels.
I'm not much of a beach person, but I came along to be sociable, and brought my flute to aid in entertainment, theirs and mine. I never took off my shirt, a nice silk Hawaiian thing that blended well in a casino late at night.
I didn't even feel anything in particular while it happened. My shirt felt a bit sticky, but no more so than sweat often made it. Returning to the hotel, though, I had to peel the shirt off a great swathe of red, raw flesh between my shoulder-blades, spotted here and there with blisters, which suddenly was extremely painful.
It remained that way for several days, and laid me up good. Eventually I managed sleeping face-down and shirtless on a hammock outdoors in the night breeze. None of the nicely tanned people I went there with had the least discomfort from the outing. And the place really was beautiful.
Not something that the sophisticated gentleman gambler The Magistrate was into.
