Sleeping in the nude is a practice that we absolutely recommend here at Nude Is Normal.
The Sleep Charity offers this advice:
It’s cheaper and easier. No more spending money on PJs, no more washing!
Skin to skin contact with your partner releases a feel-good hormone called oxytocin and can help alleviate stress and depression.
It helps to regulate body temperature. If you’re too hot in bed, your core body temperature will struggle to fall which you need to trigger your sleep mechanism.
It’s better for skin. Parts of your body can get to breathe which lowers the risk of skin diseases and it also helps improve blood circulation.
Maintains healthy sex organs. PJs can restrict air flow whereas sleeping naked allows free circulation of air around the female genital organs, reducing the risk of infection.
You may sleep better. No PJ restrictions, just you and the cool clean sheets cocooning you.
The Wall Street Journal gets in on the act of promoting sleeping nude, and this is where our header image comes from. If the Wall Street Journal says it’s OK, it must be! (The article is behind a paywall, sorry!)
Not so fast!
Cosmopolitan Magazine, usually a publication that promotes nudity, body acceptance and is naturist friendly suggests otherwise. Their correspondent suggests light bedclothes to soak up the sweat. Your body temperature drops as you sleep so if you are nude you might wake up feeling cold.
We would have to disagree with Cosmopolitan, we think sleeping nude is the way to go. Just choose the correct bedding, make sure your bedroom is at a suitable temperature and enjoy a good nights sleep in the nude.
