Q:
Is there any harm in lying on a tanning bed in the nude?
— Butt First
Dear Butt First:
The ultraviolet rays of a tanning bed won’t do any more harm to your dick than they do to your back. But that’s not saying much, since the consensus among dermatologists is that tanning beds cause skin cancer.
Every day more than a million Americans go to the nation’s 50,000 tanning facilities. The ultraviolet radiation these “beds” give off is a carcinogen just like tobacco, according to the latest study in The Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. As one of the study’s authors notes, “Radiation use has been declared a carcinogen by the National Institutes of Health.”