You just did it. You just did it. You took your clothes off and you dipped in. You dipped, you dipped, you skinny dipped. Although you are so skinny. I thought skinny people don't skinny dip. But you did. You took your clothes off and skinny dipped. Fuck that. Fuck commitment and all this shit. Just skinny dip, baby, just skinny dip. And fuck me and my feelings. Just do it, just go in there and skinny dip, with your other half or any other half you like. I will stay here, waiting for you. Like a big terrible idiot, whose idiocy traverses the waves and comes and finds you. Only to remind you that it's ok to skinny dip with someone else.

Although modern swimwear is more practical, nude swimming remains a fairly common activity in rural areas, where an unwanted audience of outsiders is rather unlikely; yet it may be forbidden even there by law. Today, many swimmers in the U.S. limit nude swimming to private locations due to concerns about public nudity.

Benjamin Franklin, an avid swimmer, possessed a copy of the Art of Swimming by Melchisédech Thévenot, which featured illustrations of nude swimmers. Among other notable Americans, Presidents John Quincy Adams and Theodore Roosevelt are perhaps the best-known skinny-dippers.

"If we swam the Potomac, we usually took off our clothes."