In addition to honing my skills as a wide receiver, I also spent some time at the Cape Cod media retreat swimming in the Atlantic (as you’d expect) in the buff (as you might not). Before you tut, consider:

* Back in the 60s when the YMCA was no-girls-allowed, skinny-dipping was more than de rigueur — it was required. In the pre-fast-drying-lycra era, swimsuits were deemed unsanitary and banned from the pools.

* At least one of our presidents was a fan of swimming au naturel — John Quincy Adams almost drowned while frolicking nude in the Potomac.

* Senator Patrick Leahy has also been a political crusader for skinny-dippers; in 1973, as Vermont’s attorney general, he decreed that the state had “no legitimate interest in nudity on private land out of public view” or in public but secluded areas. Of course, much of Vermont is a secluded area. Of all the states, it has the highest concentration of nude swimming holes per square mile.