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The Texanist: offering fine advice since 2007.

Publication: Texas Monthly
Publication Date: 01-AUG-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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What are the guidelines for male friends helping each other apply sunscreen? I was recently down at the coast with a buddy of mine. My girlfriend wasn't there, so when I was putting on some sunscreen, I asked him if he'd mind doing my back. He nearly had a conniption fit and acted like I had made some sort of depraved request. Did I err? Name withheld

A: Blessed with a preternaturally bronzed (the fact-checkers say orange) and perpetually glistening (the fact-checkers say unwashed) beach-friendly physique, like that of Hercules film series star RegPark (who, the fact-checkers say, succumbed to skin cancer in 2007), the Texanist has never himself had much use for sunscreen. His positionvis-a-visultraviolet radiation shares much with the president's one-time stance toward Islamic extremism: Bring it on. But he is keenly aware of the medical...

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