Ted Yoho is a former large animal veterinarian from Florida who doesn't understand what racism is. That alone does not make Ted Yoho interesting. What makes Ted Yoho interesting is the fact that he is a United States Congressman who doesn't understand what racism is, to the extent that he believes a tax on tanning… Read… 8/06/13 1:50pm 8/06/13 1:50pm

The FDA wants to warn kids about the dangers of tanning. Which is a big fucking deal because those yahoos are so far behind the times that they still aren't certain what gluten-free means. (I know, my grandma's been off wheat for years now, too.) Read… 5/07/13 10:50am 5/07/13 10:50am

Last week, a woman walked into an Ohio tanning salon, took a tour, received one tanning session, then purchased a $70 tanning package. But when she returned to Aloha Tanning the next day to tan some more, she was told that they'd changed their policy overnight and she was suddenly too fat to tan. Read… 4/23/13 9:30am 4/23/13 9:30am

When I was a senior in high school, my parents and I took a trip to Samoa to visit my uncle. In preparation, because I am essentially a cave salamander, my mom forced me to go to a tanning salon and get a "base" so that I wouldn't crisp like a tater-tot in the South Pacific sun. I crisped anyway, of course (this raw… Read… 2/25/13 4:00pm 2/25/13 4:00pm

Tanning beds are awesome and full of life-blasting vitamins, whereas doctors are stupid, maybe even villainously stupid and need to be stopped from telling people who want only to lay their tired heads down on a bed of synthetic sunshine that tanning salons are not the second-best places in the Solar System (the first… Read… 8/24/12 12:45pm 8/24/12 12:45pm

Guys. Is Tan Mom drunk? Is she slurring a little? And what is she talking about?
"Everything is dangerous."
"I tan, a rela — you know — one, once in a, three, four times a week. It's my relaxation."
"Any mother that says something or doesn't even know me… They don't have children."
"It's a blush."
"I don't sit in tanning… Read… 5/04/12 12:45pm 5/04/12 12:45pm

44-year-old Patricia Krentcil was arrested and charged with child endangerment after her 5-year-old daughter was spotted at school with a sunburn. Apparently the little girl told classmates she "went tanning with Mommy." But Krentcil insists that the kid wasn't in the tanning booth: Read… 5/02/12 10:20am 5/02/12 10:20am

It seems pretty obvious that unless you're part of a certain subculture that shall remain nameless, you'll be less likley to lay out in the sun or use a tanning bed after you've applied sunless tanning lotion. Of course, researchers needed to conduct a survey to confirm this, and while the results aren't earth… Read… 12/19/11 10:43pm 12/19/11 10:43pm

You have to feel bad for Katy Perry. All she wanted to do was create generic pop musical about a magical land where ladies sport Daisy Dukes and shoot whipped cream out of their boobs, but now she's getting flak for promoting a soon-to-be illegal practice. Though she lists "sun-kissed skin" as one of the main attributes… Read… 10/10/11 11:05am 10/10/11 11:05am

On day number two of Anderson Cooper's self-titled talk show, Snooki took a bashful Cooper tanning for the first time (or so he claims). When Cooper removed his shirt, Snooki was impressed with his "peanut muscles," but the tanning supervisor wasn't: he painted "contour lines" into Anderson's muscles. Read… 9/14/11 2:40pm 9/14/11 2:40pm

Scientists may have discovered a way to tan skin from the inside out, without the cancer risk. They've developed an implant the size of a grain of rice that stimulates melanin production when placed under the skin. The effects last three months, but there's no word on how many one would have to use to achieve a strange … Read… 8/29/11 11:15am 8/29/11 11:15am

British regulators say Ubertan, a nasal spray that supposedly tans the skin, may be unsafe. Also, it might make you really horny. (Basically, it will turn you into The Situation.) Read… 8/19/11 9:55am 8/19/11 9:55am

A new study found that using a tanning bed has a reward effect in the brain that's similar to what's seen in drug addicts, which bolsters the theory that tanning is physically addictive. However, it's still unclear if that means tanning is addictive, or just pleasurable. At stake is our ability to make fun of the … Read… 8/11/11 11:55pm 8/11/11 11:55pm

After numerous studies revealed that the rate of malignant melanoma has tripled among people under the age of 35 in the UK, England and Wales have placed a ban on the use of tanning beds for children under the age of 18. Read… 4/10/11 11:30am 4/10/11 11:30am

The young, white, female and upper-middle-class are more likely to get skin cancer. Or, in cable news parlance, your beach vacation may kill you. Read… 3/22/11 10:06am 3/22/11 10:06am

A Russian prison famous for being even crappier than regular Russian prisons is going to make up for decades of horrible prisoner conditions by installing tanning beds within its walls. And Pauly D cries a single citric tear. Discuss… 1/16/11 12:40pm 1/16/11 12:40pm

Researchers investigating indoor tanning habits found that of 227 female students surveyed, almost 40% had gone tanning for the first time with their mothers. The family that soaks up UV rays together stays together? Read… 12/28/10 3:56pm 12/28/10 3:56pm

TLC's My Strange Addiction had us at hello, but this does not mean we were prepared for the hairdryer addiction. Which is not what it sounds like. Read… 12/21/10 6:00pm 12/21/10 6:00pm