Some even pursue the chance to bare-butt by patronizing nudist beaches turning their skin into leather prune-sacks and freaking out the kids.
But others find more than one reason to shun the experience. For them psychology has invented a brand-new phobia just for the occasion. It's called 'gymnophobia' - gymno meaning naked, phobia meaning fear.
Causes are linked to being bullied while naked or partially clothed, others sexually assaulted or abused, and some are bullying themselves due to critical self-image. You know, if you weigh more than a city bus and you finally noticed it doesn't really look very good.
Psych professor Frank Farley of Temple University says, ‘[It’s] more a general anxiety of their own body image as a comparative basis...We are an increasingly obese nation so the comparison could be stressful, anxiety producing, negative for one’s self-concept and could affect one’s own willingness to expose one’s self in privacy in a relationship.’
Always gotta have a little psycho-babble-professor-speak to make it sound more scientific.
So if you are cowering behind the sofa or sidling next to a bathroom fixture when disrobed you may want to remember you're not alone. Even Orson Welles had to take his clothes off once in a while - and he was buried in a baby grand piano crate.
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