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Subscribe to RSSAttaining an even, all-over tan is a futile effort, no matter how much you sunbathe buck naked. The reason? Your booty.
Turns out, your hindquarters just don't tan as well as the rest of you. Instead, your derriere is more likely to simply turn red - probably not the look you were going for.
LiveScience reported on the new research conducted by scientists from the University of Edinburgh who were trying to learn why different skin cancers tend to be found in different parts of the body. Researchers exposed the back and the behinds of 100 volunteers to UVB rays, the type that cause sunburns. The findings? Some parts of your body respond differently to the sun, hence the red hiney.
But regardless, you probably shouldn't be soaking up the rays anyhow, either under the sun or in a tanning booth. The rate of skin cancer is on the rise, including melanoma, the deadliest form. Last year, international cancer experts called tanning beds as deadly as arsenic and mustard gas.
If that's not enough to instead send you to the self-tanning lotion, do it to avoid having a baboon bum.
What's your weirdest or worst sunburn? Tell us about it in the comments or, better yet, send us a photo. We'll publish some of the best pictures.
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My body is fair skined. I was young and stupid. I went to the beach and received a sunburn. That night I had my back full of small pimple like blisters. The next day my friends called and invited me to the beach again. My brilliant mind agreed. That night the pimple like blisters were like boiles all over my back. I landed in the hospital. Needless to say that was not enough of a lesson to learn to keep out of the sun. I had several major burns between the ages of 15-19 years. 50 years later I developed melonoma and had three surgeries. Anyway when I had kids (6) they were never permitted in the sun unless they had protection. Better late than never.
This is news in the HEALTH section? Tanning? Really? Health and tanning. Let me get this straight . . .
Uhh yeah, tanning causes skin cancer if you read the article.
Never had a bad sunburn even when I lived in Guam and spent lots of time at the beach. All over tan, bum and all.
When were you on Guam? I've been there twice and loved it; in fact when it comes to wintertime here in Okla. I wish I were back on Guam. I know there were two different beaches that were supposedly clothes optional but never made it to either one.
I'm sure all they needed to do to find out this information is to ask Snookie!
Marie are you being sarcastic?! I hope so, otherwise, WOW, just wow! Tanning is about your health, and how bad it is for your skin!
once again only half truths, ask any naturist
hmmmm--a competition for the 'best' sunburn--just what everyone needs to do in order to increase their chances for skin cancer--not!!!.
Years ago I found myself on a nude beach. Thinking while in Rome do as the Romans do, I dropped my swimsuit and laid on the beach watching the scenery. After an hour or two, I found my tender buttocks were extremely sunburned! I just figured that an area that had never seen the sun was just very sensitive. Now, I find out that it is "science" and "genetics." And I thought it was very white skin and too much sun. Doh!
PS I was still in hight school and had a difficult time explaining how I got sunburned there. Now the poison ivy on my privates is another story. ;)
When I was 17, while people still used baby oil while laying in the sun, I managed to roast my front and back after a day at teh beach. That evening, I had to go to work at pizza hut and stand in front of 2 550 degree ovens all evenning with my shirt buttoned. I felt like I was on fire. As soon as I arrived home, I took everything off and coated myself with Nozema.
There are thousands of things my butt is standing between me and...
Wonder what the evolutionary advantage of having a more sunburnable rear end would be?
Funny how everyone is discontent with their skin color and often everyone else's too.
I'm glad there is a tax on tanning booths just like cigarettes to offset the health care costs and maybe slow some people down on their way to cancer.
Another misinformed and brainwashed fair skinned hospital worker whos bum is so large, she's mad because her legs don't tan.
Once again the sunscreen industry lies are spouted as "truth". Sunlight equal to mustard gas??? Really?? Tanning bed lamps emit UV A & B. Not just B. Thats EXACTLY what the SUN does. I have no doubt that if you expose skin that has never seen the light of day to a high dose of UV B that skin will burn badly. But the idiot that does that intentionally is a moron. I own a tanning salon and we DO NOT expose our customers to LETHAL doses of UV. We are professionals who determine the proper time to allow each individual customer to lay in the bed. We consider it a failure to cause a sunburn. All things in moderation is our policy and belief. We also do not eat a box of donuts a day either. Common sense rules here. Sunlight equal to mustard gas and arsenic. What a bunch of morons.
The article does not say that sunlight is as deadly (equal to) arsenic and mustard gas -- it says that TANNING BEDS are. Try reading the article again, perhaps you'll be better able to get the facts straight and stick to the actual truth.
As for tanning beds being as deadly as arsenic and mustard gas, they are: So-called "safe" doses of arsenic and mustard gas WILL kill when accumulated over time. Just like cancer caused by over-exposure to UV-B -- whether by too much time on a tanning bed or too much time on the beach without sunblock. The difference is that with tanning beds, you get MASSIVE doses of UV-B every time you use one.
RepublicanSteve, I think your angle on this became abundantly clear when you wrote this:
"I own a tanning salon"
As is all too often the case, people are perfectly willing to say anything -- even to the point of endangering other people's lives -- all in the name of making money.
One of these days, the public might see private mooning on the google satellite maps perhaps.
Is it possible that there is a direct relationship between the increases in melanoma and other cancers due to the increase in use of suntan lotions and other moisturizers? The paraben levels found in many of these products are outlawed in industrial settings in many european countries as hazardous to the health. Just wondering...!
Oh' dear, how dare you even mention anything like that. This couldn't be, could it? The big bucks people who manufacturer those products and lobby for many of the so called "studies" trying to prove that uv causes cancer, haven't a thread of proof. The sun and uv taken in moderation is more healthful than hurtful. Now, that's a proven fact and the body requires it for existance. Vitimin "d" from the sun is absorbed directly into the blood stream, not through the stomach as with suppliments. Get Sun, get tan and you'll live longer.
Parrot head, the human body does absorb Vitamin D through the stomach every day, it is in the meat and vegetables you eat every day (cod liver oil is loaded with it) -- it's that exposure to sunlight allows the human body to more easily absorb Vitamin D, as well as "produce" it. Vitamin D is a "by-product" of exposure to sunlight, it is not a direct product of it.
The Peoples of the far, frozen Arctic North live very long lives, often longer than the majority of people in Europe and the U.S.A. -- yet they have practically zero exposure to sunlight compared to the sun-worshipping nudists of Europe and the U.S.A. How can this be, if the Peoples of the far, frozen Arctic North are not getting their Vitamin D from sunlight?
Having lived most of my life in the "artic north" and seen most family and friends die at pretty much the same age as the rest of the civilized world, I have reservations in accepting your statement about "longer and healthier lives" up north. As a matter of fact the further north you get, the more people are outdoors in their employment and leisure, at least in the summer when the sun is up around the clock for up to 10 weeks. The sun is not proven by any independent researcher to cause damage other than side-effects from severe sunburns, and one don't need scientists to tell us that burning our selves are unhealthy. The pain itself is enough to any clear-minded individual.
Sounds like an opportunity for a new beauty product. How about new "Tan Butt Lotion"?
OK, so skin cancer is on the rise. But why are we blaming the sun? Sure, there may be a link between UV exposure and skin cancer rates. Is anyone, anywhere, suggesting that sun exposure is also on the rise? Quite to the contrary. People are getting less and less natural sun exposure than ever before, with a general gravitation of jobs to indoors and kids glued to televisions and computers. Somehow, these quacks are convincing everyone that the better, nay, CRUCIAL alternative is to slather your entire body, your highly porous skin, the largest organ you have, with synthetic, manufactured chemicals that do gawd-knows-what to your body. And let's not even talk about all of the industrial chemicals in your food, plastics, household products, you name it. What is really more likely to cause cancer: natural exposure to the sun we've been living under for eternity and the very reason anything exists on this planet? or new, synthetic chemicals that you can't even pronounce nevermind know what they actually do? Combine that with less exercise and terrible eating habits and it's no wonder why we're sicker than ever. Don't believe it when someone tells you that the sun is to blame for anything but their bad vacation photos. Nature didn't "get it wrong!"
You are completely correct. I won't be suprised when in ten or twenty years the articles won't be about sun and skin cancer, but 'What's really in your suntan lotion'.
Yes, they have lotion to tan your face and legs; why not booty tan lotion?
I grew up in New Orleans, and we were not allowed to go swimming until school was out. The first day after school ended meant a day at the beach, producing a substantial sunburn followed by peeling. This cycle usually continued throughout the summer (long before the dangers of skin cancer were known). But the worst sunburn I ever got was snow-skiing in a t-shirt in Colorado on a sunny April day.
I was more afraid of a bootydo. A bootydo is when your gut sticks out further than your booty do!
Did anyone ever consider that the rise in skin cancer could be due to the toxic chemicals in sunscreen instead of Sunlight? Two come to mind Retinol Palmitate and Octinoxate, in every suncreen product. Of course it is a trillion dollar a year business for cosmetic companies who pay lobbists and Dermatologists (and probably Journalists) money to scare people into using this poison.
If you did your research you would know that 7 to 10 minutes exposure to UVB creates Vitamin D in your blood which in itself is a powerful anti-oxidant.
And 7 to 10 minutes exposure to UV-B on a tanning bed is the same as 2 to 4 hours exposure to natural sunlight -- which is plenty of time to get that lobster-red burn. I spent close to 4 hours in the garden a few weeks ago, without a shirt, and my back (the part of me most directly exposed to direct sunlight), already moderately tanned from previous exposure, was a bright shade of red. The last time I used a tanning bed, my back and front were that same shade of red after only 5 minutes. Again, I was already moderately tanned.
Exposure to UV-B may "create" Vitamin D in the human bloodstream (it doesn't, it just helps the body absorb/produce it) -- but the dangers of over-exposure to UV-B due to use of tanning beds far out-weigh the benefits of "sun-worshipping".
I suppose it depends on your skin type. I could lay in a tanning bed every day for a week and not get as tan as after 1 hour in the real sun. Moderation is the key.
This thread is yet another example of how science is like parenting: everyone thinks he's an expert but very few actually are.
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Well, I can vouch that the buns ain't supposed to be exposed too long; but that being said I grew up on a farm and during the summer when driving a tractor (before they had cabs on them) I often went without a shirt, yes I got burned the first time each summer but some noxema took care of that and didn't burn again the rest of the summer. As noted on another post, while in Air Force I spent some time on Guam and enjoyed the beaches and sun, never burned there. I am now using a tanning bed every other week for anywhere from 10 min. to 17 min. at a time. I know I'm gonna die sometime, but don't think it's gonna be from skin cancer.
Hey, now--the brighter the butt, the deeper the tan! It's all about the correct settings for contrast and the brightness knobs! Set the controls for the heart of the sun!
Hey, now--the brighter the butt, the deeper the tan! It's all about the correct settings for contrast and the brightness knobs! Set the controls for the heart of the sun!
Hey, now--the brighter the butt, the deeper the tan! It's all about the correct settings for contrast and the brightness knobs! Set the controls for the heart of the sun!