# Are you naked? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 20, 2002, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-naked/124759 "2002-08-20T16:35:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Alexxandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/278dde/32.png) [@Alexxandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alexxandra)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-naked/124759/1 "2002-08-20T16:35:29Z")
I live alone, for the first time in my life. I spend most my time at home either totally naked, or just in a tank-top and panties. It makes it a bitch when someone knocks at the door, and I don’t recommend frying bacon. Otherwise, I’m very comfortable, and I do less laundry. 😃 How about you guys? Hey, baby, whatcha wearin’? Alexx ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-naked/124759/2 "2002-08-20T17:41:57Z")
Get precooked bacon; you can nuke it in the nude. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-naked/124759/3 "2002-08-20T18:00:54Z")
Candygram for Alexxandra. ---
**Author:** ![Koffing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@Koffing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koffing)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-naked/124759/4 "2002-08-20T19:28:13Z")
Just a pair of shorts and a smile. Sadly, my housemate frowns on the full nudity. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-naked/124759/5 "2002-08-20T19:37:06Z")
Got on linnen pants and a cotton shirt. Shoes, socks, underwear, belt. It’s the “business casual” look! If I were home I’d be wearing shorts and a t-shirt. If I lived by myself I might not have that on. While my housemates are very cool people, I don’t think they’d approve of the whole naked thing. I do get to sleep naked though. ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-naked/124759/6 "2002-08-20T19:58:39Z")
Just wearing my black boxers right now. Haven’t been motivated enough yet today to get dressed. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-naked/124759/7 "2002-08-20T20:11:24Z")
If I were at home, it would just be boxers. They frown on it here at work though. (Heck they are even having trouble adjusting to the fact that I kick off my shoes every day.) ---
**Author:** ![Alexxandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/278dde/32.png) [@Alexxandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alexxandra)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-naked/124759/8 "2002-08-20T20:26:45Z")
Ahhhh…precooked bacon! Is that stuff any good? It always seemed kinda pricey…but no splatter-factor is a good thing. Lieu: heh…“candygram”. Wouldn’t you be in for a shock when I answered the door. I’m sure you’d be clawing at your eyes within seconds. 😉 Aww, you guys, no nudity at work? Damned shame, I tell you…it would be one hell of a friendly office atmosphere. There’s not many people at my work that I’d care to see naked. Or in undies for that matter. Oh, and one more minor hijack: Guys! What do you think of a girl in men’s boxers? Is that cute or freaky? I think it’s cute and that boxers are way comfortable. Anyways. Back to lurking! Alexx ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-naked/124759/10 "2002-08-20T23:31:28Z")
The barest minimum, boxers and old cut up t-shirts most of the time at home. I like to have something on in case of company or the neighbors walk by the windows (apt. dweller, can’t stand to have all the blinds drawn). [Ray Stevens] It’s me again, Margaret. I know it’s you, Margaret. Are you NEKKID?!?[/Ray Stevens] ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-naked/124759/11 "2002-08-20T23:31:32Z")
Hold on a second… OK, now I’m naked. I live by myself, and on the weekends, I’m usually naked until I’m going somewhere, cause I sleep naked, and I see no point in getting dressed just because. But I don’t strip down just because I’m at home. Truth is, I’m lazy, and I just succumb to inertia. Tomorrow I’m working from home. I don’t know whether to get dressed for that. ---
**Author:** ![Jessity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jessity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jessity)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-naked/124759/12 "2002-08-20T23:38:18Z")
Now that I _finally_ live alone, I prefer to wear as little clothes as possible around the house, and none at all while I’m sleeping. Truth is, it just cuts down on the laundry. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-naked/124759/13 "2002-08-21T02:52:00Z")
My roommate doesn’t like my being naked in front of him, so I usually wear boxers around the house. If I’m home alone or he’s asleep and it’s hot, I’ll often go naked, or if I’m just in my room on the computer I’ll often be naked. I prefer to be naked when possible. I also sleep naked or in boxers, usually. ---
**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-naked/124759/14 "2002-08-21T03:57:47Z")
I’m going out in a few minutes, so I’m fully dressed (T-shirt, shorts-that-come-to-my-knees-with-nifty-big-pockets, and appropriate under-clothes-wear) Normally, I’d still be in my nightshirt (and in bed, but that’s beside the point) ---
**Author:** ![alex\_arg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@alex\_arg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alex_arg)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-naked/124759/15 "2002-08-21T04:07:17Z")
Girl in me’s boxers: very sexy. ---
**Author:** ![alex\_arg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@alex\_arg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alex_arg)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-naked/124759/16 "2002-08-21T04:08:27Z")
Men’s. sorry bout that ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-naked/124759/17 "2002-08-21T04:56:26Z")
Yep, and I’m at the office. I took [this challenge](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=129541&highlight=naked+poor) over a month ago and nobody’s called security yet. I think they’ve gotten used to me. ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-naked/124759/18 "2002-08-21T06:48:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by greengeezer \* > \*\*Some woman comic (Ladner?)wrote a book titled with my answer: > **I’m Naked Under My Clothes** \*\* Really? I can’t find it, if it exists. The closest I could find was [this](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671573861/qid=1029912074/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-1509909-1554253), and I don’t think Dr. Dre would like being called a woman comic. (Forgive me, I’m curious. Being naked under clothes is something of an in-joke around here and such a book would make a perfect gift.) ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-naked/124759/19 "2002-08-21T06:52:51Z")
Perhaps **greengeezer** meant [Naked Beneath My Clothes](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0759652406/qid=1029912340/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/104-9924787-4510364) by Rita Rudner ---
**Author:** ![VDarlin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e56c9b/32.png) [@VDarlin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VDarlin)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-naked/124759/20 "2002-08-21T08:27:55Z")
Right now? Just a men’s one pocket t-shirt, and some old panties. This is not my normal “around the house”/sleep attire, however. In the summer I practically live in men’s boxers and tank tops/wife beaters, and in the winter it’s men’s lounge pants, and a plain t-shirt, as I have on now. I don’t know why, but I am just not comfortable being completely naked without reason. I have to have something on, even if it’s not much(many times my tank tops are men’s,and the arm holes are WAY too big, so, there wouldn’t seem to be much point in wearing it at all). I think that some of it is the window thing, although here I really don’t have that problem. The doorbell ringing, and now, having young, but old “enough” children, that it’s good to teach modesty by example. I still change in front of them, get in/out of the shower in front of them, but those are normal situations where nakedness is acceptable, and I do not want them to grow up thinking that their body is something to be ashamed of. It is just a comfort thing, too. Kind of like a security blanket, I guess…I am more comfortable having something loose, and soft against me, rather than nothing at all. ~V ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-naked/124759/21 "2002-08-21T10:22:47Z")
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