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What proportion of adults sleep naked I wonder? I haven't found any reliable figures from web searching, but one small sample showed a surprising number of people who thought it wrong, or who wouldn't dare because of the risk of being found out accidentally, or by an evacuation for a fire. I suppose sleeping nude is a sort of introductory nudism. So I wonder what proportion?

Indirectly reported from a survey of sleeping habits in The Times: 9 of 88 respondents.

Another, unattributed report said 1 in 3, of which 2:1 in favour of male (ie 44% of males and 22% of females).

A survey of 500 women in Bella, 2007, in UK, supposedly found 17% of them slept always nude; 19% of married women.

A survey in Naturist Life, December 2007, reveals that of 125 naturists 86% always sleep nude and 3% never do, which is hardly surprising.

This survey was reported in November 2012: The UK’s ‘Skinny Napping’ Index, conducted by Travelodge, surveyed 2,000 British adults to investigate what Britons are wearing to bed in order to get a good night’s sleep. Research findings revealed that over a third (35%) of British men like to sleep in the buff compared to just a quarter of women.

Reasons for wearing clothes in bed:

"Someone might come in". If someone wanders unannounced into your bedroom and sees you naked that's your problem and not theirs?

"There might be a fire". It's so important not to be seen naked, that precautions must be taken even against the very unlikely occurrence of a fire from which it is possible to escape, but only by being so quick that it's not possible to grab any clothing at all. The possibility of the nightwear catching fire and making escape more difficult is not considered important.

"It's cold". Put on another blanket.

"It's not decent to sleep nude". It might feel sexy and we wouldn't want that, would we?

"It will make the sheets dirty." How often do you wash the sheets? And your nightwear?

"It's convention". The number one reason. Everyone else does. Or I assume that they do. They do, don't they?