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That sounds like a blast, but you really should put on sun screen!!
The reason I say no sunscreen is cause they keep pulling them from the market for having a carcinogen called benzene. We have survived in the sun for thousands of years with out sunscreen and skin cancer is on the rise because people keep using sun screen. Marketing can be evil but do some research and you will find that we don't need sunscreen. Just need to tan a little bit at a time and your skin can naturally deal with the sun as we have for thousands of years before sunscreen.
I did not know that about benzene.
What I will say though is that sunlight is carcinogenic. Cancer of all types has always existed, but we're better about detecting it and treating it nowadays.
The reason why skin cancer is so much more prevalent now is because things like tanning and spending time in the sun are more popular in the western world than they were ages ago. People long ago used to physically shield themselves from it (before sunscreen). Asian cultures actually retained the desire to shield themselves from the sun. Whiter skin is more desirable in these countries, so people avoid tanning.
Long ago in the western world, whiter skin used to signify wealth. Farmers and day laborers would get tan tending the fields and such. So if your skin was whiter, it meant you could afford to be inside while people were doing physical labor for you.
Now in the western world, it's the opposite. Since most jobs nowadays are in the office, having tanner skin signifies having more wealth as you have more free time away from the office to sit in the sun.
In very ancient hunter gatherer times, I'm not sure that recreation was much of a thing. People likely tried to shield themselves from burns and such, but who knows. In ancient hunter gatherer times, you'd likely die of infection or malnutrition before cancer anyway.
Edit: Altho to be clear, I'm not saying that no sun is good either lol. Sun is actually super important for certain things like vitamin D! It's just that it's also carcinogenic!