If I ever got a one-off from behaving properly I would probably take that chance to stand outside a tanning salon and punch people as they come out, fresh from their tanning session. It's mostly the tanning beds that I rail against, and I completely support any and all efforts to ban them. Too many people-- especially young women-- have been diagnosed with skin cancer and malignant tumors and it makes me sick to think that this type of disease is one of the most easily preventable. Lying in a tanning bed is so much more UV exposure than just spending a summer day at the beach without wearing sunscreen. Gah! And for what? For skin that is temporarily darker, for the fleeting opportunity to look slightly slimmer or whatever. And I doubt that it's cheap. And in the long run these same people will be shelling out loads more money to counteract the wrinkles and age spots they wrought because their excessive exposure to skin-toasting treatments have sped up the aging process of their skin! I feel myself launching onto the broader issue of The Beauty Myth, a topic for another day and time... I have only slightly less acerbic feelings toward spray tanning. But mostly I take umbradge in the use--nay, the existence of tanning beds and the salons that own them.
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