Being watched naked in the shower !

As a girl you do know when you are being watched naked …

Its true you can sense eyes on you and you get the feeling that your bra size is being calculated

Thinking back to earlier this year I remember I said I would tell you more of my trip home for Chinese New Year.

As with the strange toilets that came as a culture shock so did other things………hell I am only a different colour on the outside I am Weston educated ……………… true I also have strange some very odd Non-Weston habits but those I blame on my Aunts that brought me up …………………..        

After the problems with wet toilets and trying to keep a dress dry I opted for that standard Chinese girl uniform which is a tee with or without bra and a pair of shorts ……lucky my cousins are all the same size as I am, but then so is everyone ……


…so odd not having to get a chair to look someone in the eyes, so they lent me all the things I needed to blend in, the reason why a Tee can be worn with or without a bra is due to the thickness of material …..er how can I put this…………. The nipples don’t show ………like the bras, the cups are of a thick material, nipples should not be seen!   

(ho god for a change I could buy clothing that fitted without feeling like a child playing dress up in their Moms clothes) 

 As was so pointed out 
(nipples pointed out ! get it ?... sorry)   to me in the past only white women and prostitutes let guys see their nipples ……………….


As to why ……well ask a white woman how should I know, perhaps proud of the size or something.

The shorts were normal as shorts go and not like the ones I saw in Siam …4 inches deep !!!!!!  like that is 8 cm …………I know tai girls are small but even they would have to shave before wearing something like that !

But must remember do not get close to Malay as they see your legs and will want to rape you ……


………… its TRUE !!! I read it in the newspaper a malay man arrested for rapeing a Chinese girl told the court that he thought she was a prostitute because of what she was wearing which was a tee and shorts …………..er he did go to prison due to the fact she was only 14 ………….. but if she was 24 he may have got away with it

Now I burn in sunlight ……….no not burst into flames ………. Not all vampires do that I just can not take strong sunlight. …………….. Which oddly is not a problem in SE Asia ………..er………….. no one goes out in the sun! its true again only white people go in the sun Asians always walk and park in the shade ………….. 


We even have stick on or pull down blinds on the car windows ………… no not for the driver!......... stupid question ………baseball cap and sunglasses for the driver ………don’t forget we do not go for suntans ………….. the paler the skin the nicer you look ……….so my deathly pale completion was liked by all the family.

And even my washing habits fitted in ……due to one of my crazy Aunts …….I shower and change undies at least 3 times a day …….. Some thing which was pointed out as an oddity at Uni is normal here, all my distant relatives spend so much time in the shower it normally takes 4 hours to get ready to go out to eat ……………… Yes again as my Aunt pointed out to me:     “you don’t want to smell like a white person now do you” ?

It is not true that all white people smell that is just stereotyping ………. Well yes a lot do smell but you can get used to it ………… and not all is body odour, well don’t forget just as Indians smell of curry, Whites smell of Sour milk ………….. er ………you did not know?   ……sorry …………. Its alright not to me…………well I am used to it……., I mostly just notice the BO ……..but lots of my race do not take dairy products ………. So when someone takes lots of milk and cheese and butter etc…. well it must seep out of the pores ……


……. Look I am not a doctor if you don’t bath in the stuff you tell me why you smell of it then.?

Now the hotels were fantastic but when moving around the cousins you have to live like they do 


…………. Ok ok ok Its just that I am not used to sleeping with other girls or taking my clothes off in front of others ………….. well I am not ………… I blog about all kinds of sexy stuff but it is all talk ………..


People wonder where I get all the crazy stuff I put in my books well its from real life!!!

Ok if I was Japanese I would be used to being naked sharing hot tubs and hot springs with other girls ……

…….. but as I am not, so being naked in front of others is not normal for me……….. 

Again with the hotel you have lovely power shower, but as a race that has had showers for 3000 years this part of SE Asia is a little kinda pre 1,000 BC plumbing

To take a shower you enter a room with a drain in the centre, with a plastic cover over it ………………The top of the wall does not join the ceiling and that is where a neon tube is located………….and the wild life lives, the door has a small plastic bolt which must be only for decoration as it bends and pops open when the door is pushed from the other side………… this means if I am too long a cousin will join me making it look like a start of a porno movie    

eck ….I thought I got past girlies showering together when I left high school … believe me it did not do anything for me them so don't expect it to do anything now. 


Now to shower with a nice hunk of a guy well that is something I would not mind trying and well I would not mind if he wanted to rub my back.... or even ............. 

Ho well back to the real world................ sigh

Walls floor and ceiling are bare apart from the eyes watching me ……..yes as I remove my things and try and hang them on nipple shaped plugs in the wall ……

..I am being watched ……………… as I look around I see the peeping toms sticking tongues out with excitement ………


….. Small lizards are walking up the wall …………. And they can run across a ceiling faster than you could ever hope to catch one a Geako I think they are called.

Now my family hate them but I find them cute …………. They eat insects and that is mega cute to me………………… the problem is the toilet habits after they have eaten the insects ………

Two plungers containing two liquids .1 is pink and for the hair and 1 is grean and for the body and they both smell like cheap washing up liquid.

Now as for the shower Huh ! fitted to a wall with a dripping tap to fill it is a er……….. don’t know what to call, (urn?) it well it is plastic, blue and must hold 50 gallons of water ………….. floating on the top is a pale blue plastic bucket.

What you do is fill the bucket and pour it over you and that is called showering I call it frigging COLD !!!!!!

You stand in the room over a drain and rub washing up liquid all over the body and hair then pour buckets of water over yourself,     at this point you nearly scream as a finger prods you in the butt as a cousin is now standing naked behind …………….. yes the plastic bolt was only for show ……she takes the bucket off you and insists on pouring it over you as you cover your chest with your arms and shiver ……………… then she expects you to do the same for her !

If those lizards had a camera I would now be staring in some online porn magazine with a discreet title such as :

Hot and Horny Asian Chicks playing with water

Ok Ok…yes it is all innocent but you try telling someone that after they have watched you on the adult section of Youtube.    

  

Geckos are lizards belonging to the family Gekkonidae, found in warm climates throughout the world. They range from 1.6 cm to 60 cm.
Geckos are unique among lizards in their vocalizations, making chirping sounds in social interactions with other geckos. Gekkonidae is the largest family of lizards, with over 2000 different species worldwide and many others likely yet to be discovered. The name stems from the Indonesian-Javanese word Tokek, inspired by the sound these animals make.
All geckos, excluding the Eublepharinae subfamily, have no eyelids and instead have a transparent membrane which they lick to clean. Many species will, in defense, expel a foul-smelling material and feces onto their aggressors. There are also many species that will drop their tails in defense, a process called autotomy. Many species are well known for their specialized toe pads that enable them to climb smooth and vertical surfaces, and even cross indoor ceilings with ease (one hypothesis explains the ability in terms of the van der Waals force). These antics are well-known to people who live in warm regions of the world, where several species of geckos make their home inside human habitations. These species (for example the House Gecko) become part of the indoor menagerie and are often welcome guests, as they feed on insects, including mosquitoes.
The largest species, the Kawekaweau, is only known from a single, stuffed specimen found in the basement of a museum in Marseille, France, and one documented sighting in the wild in 1870. This gecko was 60 cm (24 in) long and it was endemic to New Zealand, where it lived in native forests. It was probably wiped out along with much of the native fauna of these islands in the late 19th century, when new invasive species such as rats and stoats were introduced to the country during European colonization. The smallest gecko, the Jaragua Sphaero, is a mere 1.6 cm long and was discovered in 2001 on a small island off the coast of the Dominican Republic.^[2]

Common traits

Geckos come in various patterns and colors such as purple, pink, blue, and black, and are among the most colorful lizards in the world.
Some are subtly patterned and somewhat rubbery looking, while others are brightly colored. Some species can change color to blend in with their environment or with particular temperatures. Some species are parthenogenic, which means the female is capable of reproducing without copulating with a male. This improves the gecko's ability to spread to new islands. However, in a situation where a single female gecko populates an entire island, the island will suffer from a lack of genetic variation within the geckos that inhabit it. The gecko's mating call sounds like a shortened bird chirping which attracts males, when they are around. This allows a female to reproduce with more genetic variation, by using sexual reproduction instead of asexual.

[edit] Adhesion Ability

Close-up of the underside of a gecko's foot as it walks on vertical glass

The toes of the gecko have a special adaptation that allows them to adhere to most surfaces without the use of liquids or surface tension. The spatula tipped setae on gecko footpads allow attractive forces called van der Waals interactions to arise between the adhesive setae and the surface. One study suggested that capillary adhesion might play a role^[3], but that hypothesis has been rejected by more recent studies^{[4] [5] [6]}.
These van der Waals interactions involve no fluids; in theory, a boot made of synthetic setae would adhere as easily to the surface of the International Space Station as it would to a living room wall, although adhesion varies with humidity^{[5] [6]}. The setae on the feet of geckos are also self cleaning and will usually remove any clogging dirt within a few steps.^[7][8] Teflon, which has very low van der Waals forces,^[9] is more difficult for geckos to adhere to than many other surfaces.
Geckos' toes seem to be "double jointed", but this is a misnomer. Their toes actually bend in the opposite direction from our fingers and toes. This allows them to overcome the van der Waals force by peeling their toes off surfaces from the tips inward. In essence, this peeling action alters the angle of incidence between millions of individual setae and the surface, reducing the Van der Waals force. Geckos' toes operate well below their full attractive capabilities for most of the time. This is because there is a great margin for error depending upon the roughness of the surface, and therefore the number of setae in contact with that surface.

Uroplatus fimbriatus clinging to glass.

Use of small van der Waals attraction force requires very large surface areas: every square millimeter of a gecko's footpad contains about 14,000 hair-like setae. Each seta has a diameter of 5 micrometers. Human hair varies from 18 to 180 micrometers, so a human hair could hold between 3 and 36 setae. Each seta is in turn tipped with between 100 and 1,000 spatulae.^[7] Each spatula is 0.2 micrometer long^[7] (one five-millionth of a meter), or just below the wavelength of visible light.^[10]
If a typical mature 70 g (2.5 oz) gecko had every one of its setae in contact with a surface, it would be capable of holding aloft a weight of 133 kg (290 lb):^[11] each spatula can exert an adhesive force of 10 nanonewtons (0.0010 mgf)^[12]. Each seta can resist 10 milligrams-force (100 µN), which is equivalent to 10 atmospheres of pull.^[7] This means a gecko can support about eight times its weight hanging from just one toe on smooth glass.^[7]

What sort of convo can you have when Naked together in a shower

I’m still looking for a guy he has to be Rich, 6 ft 2 tall, blond with a six pack body and hung like a horse is not asking too much is it ?  See I only have simple needs ………ho well …..Perhaps one day ……sigh………. Look ok he can dye his hair blond as to height, he has to be taller than me as I want someone who can reach the top shelf in supermarkets……….. er…….. well I can also drop the 6 pack idea but not fat, and he must be able to open jars, twist lids my butt they must glue the things on.

He still must be rich and older than me, and if he does not have a horse in his ancestry then he had better make up for it in presents of expensive jewellery.  

I always have lots of questions but it is often hard to find answers to them, like when I ask things about Guys and I get some very odd looks and answers …………. Well I would not have asked if I knew now would I? ………I innocently ask one little question on Facebook and then I go red from the replies I get, I did tell you that guys send me photos of their dicks didn’t I, and I so wish they wouldn’t, a bit of mystery around that part of the male body is fine by me and stops me asking them if they have seen a doctor about it.

Maverick Football Locker Room Going Off

I have questions like do Guys look at other Guys naked bodies? they are always getting naked together and you hear about what they get up to in the showers and locker rooms, I expect they don’t mind being naked together as most of a guys body is on display like on the beach and only a small part of their body they keep covered…………. And in some cases a very disappointingly small part it is too………. Movies always show the games of flicking bare butts with towels and play fights in the showers over the soap……is it true?

What do they talk about when they are showering together? Girls and sport I expect, what about other stuff guys do …er….you know …

……. Do they all walk about the changing rooms with a towel hanging over their dicks to show its load bearing ability by pretending to be a piece of bathroom furniture, ………. huh ………….now if they had a 2lb box of chocs hanging off it ……well that would be far more interesting !   

Look I am interested that’s all …………. Nothing wrong with that now is there.

My publisher often give me blog ideas and this one came up when he was telling me about steam rooms (Turkish baths) and that the big football players wear a see though plastic top and pants with elastic cuffs ………..the reason being they can sweat far more due to the plastic……I asked what they looked like and my publisher said it had put him off ever eating boiled chicken again.

He that is my publisher is mad…………… well he must be as he thinks I am normal ………..hahahahaha …like he reads my books and still thinks I am normal! now I worry what his other authors must be like if he thinks I’m normal!

I said he has lots of good ideas why not do his own blog …………. But he says he could not get away with what I say and he has a wife and goldfish to think of………

GOLDFISH !!!!! they are not goldfish he has piranha ! pet piranha ………….. like no one should have pets that have better teeth than me ………………..  it was partly my fault as I was teaching him about Fung Shui ……..told him about things to have in his office ….a stature of a warrior god and fish ……………..Soooooooooo what does he do, he has put weapons up on the wall …………and has a real samurai sword …………now that is mega cool ……………vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv sharp and light …….I can swing it about with one hand…………….. er ……..yes we do have interesting business meetings  …………… forget the European swords that I can not even lift ….a samurai sword I now my weapon of choice.

Piranha-bite test

River Monsters: Bathing with Piranhas

And a large fish tank ……….with flesh eating fish ……………….if you wash the BBQ sauce of a spare rib they love it, yes I have tried, I dropped it in from a height as I have seen too many horror films to get fingers too close to them……..he feeds them on scraps from the table and it is so much fun watching them fight over a chicken leg.

I do wonder about what his other authors make of his Fung Shui office ……………. I  expect if they take too long signing a contract he would start finding the fish…………

Why am I talking about my publisher ..well he asked me to plug ….er..sorry ……. Tell you of a new book he is just publishing.

 Edward Wilson’s Antarctic Notebooks 

 Click here for details:

www.antarcticbookshop.com/spole.htm

 Dr. Edward A. Wilson (1872-1912) is widely regarded as one of the finest artists ever to have worked in the Antarctic. Sailing with Captain Scott aboard 'Discovery' (1901-1904), he became the last in a long tradition of 'exploration artists' from an age when pencil and water-colour were the main methods of producing accurate scientific records of new lands and animal species. He combined scientific, topographical and landscape techniques to produce accurate and beautiful images of the last unknown continent. Such was the strength of his work that it also helped to found the tradition of modern wildlife painting. In particular Wilson captured the essence of the flight and motion of Southern Ocean sea-birds on paper. Returning with Captain Scott aboard 'Terra Nova' (1910-1913) as Chief of Scientific Staff, he continued to record the continent and its wildlife with extraordinary deftness. Chosen to accompany Captain Scott to the South Pole, his last drawings are from one of the most famous epic journeys in exploration history. Along with his scientific work, Wilson's pencil recorded the finding of Roald Amundsen's tent at the South Pole by Captain Scott. Wilson died, along with the other members of the British Pole Party, during the return journey, in March 1912. Many of the images in this book are rarely seen or are previously unpublished. The drawings and paintings were created at considerable personal cost in the freezing conditions in which Wilson worked. He often suffered severely from the cold whilst sketching and also from snow-blindness, or sunburn of the eye. They provide a remarkable testament to one of the great figures of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration. The book has been produced as a companion volume to 'Edward Wilson's Nature Notebooks' by two of Wilson's great nephews, to mark the centenary of his death.

Look just because I shower naked with a girl it does not mean I want to wear her panties!

As a girl you do know when you are being watched naked …

Its true you can sense eyes on you and you get the feeling that your bra size is being calculated

Thinking back to earlier this year remember I said I would tell you more of my trip home for Chinese New Year, so here it is.

As with the strange toilets that came as a culture shock so did other things………hell I am only a different colour on the outside I am Weston educated ……………… true I also have strange some very odd Non-Weston habits but those I blame on my Aunts that brought me up …………………..        

After the problems with wet toilets and trying to keep a dress dry I opted for that standard Chinese girl uniform which is a Tee with or without bra and a pair of shorts ……lucky my cousins are all the same size as I am, but then so is everyone ………so odd not having to get a chair to look someone in the eyes, so they lent me all the things I needed to blend in, the reason why a Tee can be worn with or without a bra is due to the thickness of material …..er how can I put this…………. The nipples don’t show ………like the bras, the cups are of a thick material, nipples should not be seen!   

(ho god for a change I could buy undies that fitted without feeling like a child playing dress up in their Moms clothes) 

 As was so pointed out (nipples pointed out ! get it ?.......... sorry)   to me only white women and prostitutes let guys see their nipples ………………. As to why ……well ask a white woman how should I know, perhaps proud of the size or something.

The shorts were normal as shorts go and not like the ones I saw in a Siam market…4 inches deep !!!!!!  like that is 8 cm …………I know the local girls are small but even they would have to shave before wearing something like that !

But must remember do not get close to Malay as they see your legs and will want to rape you ………

……… its TRUE !!! I read it in the newspaper a malay man arrested for rapeing a Chinese girl told the court that he thought she was a prostitute because of what she was wearing which was a Tee and shorts …………..er he did go to prison due to the fact she was only 14 ………….. but if she was 24 he may have got away with it

The races do not mix my name, religion (lack of) and colour make me a second class citizen, but that is better than being Indian as they are 3rd class citizens ……………. As to white people they are just foreign so no class as such …………….. as to being black ! no one and I mean not even Indians would live next to black people ……very few blacks about and as we all know those are drug dealers and pimps just in the country to kidnap girls for the sex trade…..

Isn’t life funny in the West there are laws to stop racism where as in the East we have laws to enforce it!  I cold tell you more but I will save it for a future blog.

Now I burn in sunlight ……….no not burst into flames ………. Not all vampires do that I just can not take strong sunlight. …………….. Which oddly is not a problem in SE Asia …..er………….. as no one goes out in the sun! its true again only white people go in the sun, Asians always walk and park in the shade ………….. we even have stick on or pull down blinds on the car windows ………… no not for the driver!......... stupid question ………baseball cap and sunglasses for the driver ………don’t forget we do not go for suntans ………….. the paler the skin the nicer you look ……….so my deathly pale completion was liked by all the family

And even my washing habits fitted in ……due to one of my crazy Aunts …….I have the habit of showering and change undies at least 3 times a day …….. Something which was pointed out as an oddity at Uni is normal here, all my distant relatives spend so much time in the shower it normally takes 4 hours to get ready to go out to eat …………

…… Yes again as my Aunt pointed out to me:    

 “you don’t want to smell like a white person now do you” ?

It is not true that all white people smell that is just stereotyping ………. Well yes a lot do smell but you can get used to it ………… and not all is body odour, well don’t forget just as Indians smell of curry,

Whites smell of Sour milk ………….. er ………you did not know?   ……sorry …………. Its alright not to me…………well I am used to it……., I mostly just notice the BO …….. but lots of my race do not take dairy products ………. So when someone takes lots of milk and cheese and butter etc…. well it must seep out of the pores …………. Look I am not a doctor if you don’t bath in the stuff you tell me why you smell of it then.?

Now the hotels were fantastic but when moving around the cousins you have to live like they do

…………. Ok ok ok Its just that I am not used to sleeping with other girls or taking my clothes off in front of others ………….. well I am not ………… I blog about all kinds of sexy stuff but it is all talk ………..

Ok if I was Japanese I would be used to being naked sharing hot tubs and hot springs with other girls ………….. but as I am not, so being naked in front of others is not normal for me……….. 

Again with the hotel you have lovely power shower, but as a race that has had showers for 3000 years this part of SE Asia is a little kinda pre 1,000 BC plumbing

To take a shower you enter a room with a drain in the centre, with a plastic cover over it ………………

The top of the wall does not join the ceiling and that is where a neon tube is located………….and the wild life lives, the door has a small plastic bolt which must be only for decoration as it bends and pops open when the door is pushed from the other side………… this means if I am too long a cousin will join me making it look like a start of a porno movie    

eck ….I thought I got past girlies showering together when I left high school …

Walls floor and ceiling are bare apart from the eyes watching me ……..yes as I remove my things and try and hang them on nipple shaped plugs in the wall ……

..I am being watched ……………… as I look around I see the peeping toms sticking tongues out with excitement ………….. Small lizards are walking up the wall …………. And they can run across a ceiling faster than you could ever hope to catch one ... Geako I think they are called.

Now my family hate them but I find them cute …………. They eat insects and that is mega cute to me………………… the problem is the toilet habits after they have eaten the insects ………

Two bottles with plungers containing two liquids

.1 is pink and for the hair and

1 is green and for the body and they both smell like cheap washing up liquid.

Now as for the shower Huh ! fitted to a wall with a dripping tap to fill it is a er……….. don’t know what to call, (urn?) it well it is plastic, blue and must hold 50 gallons of water ………….. floating on the top is a pale blue plastic bucket.

What you do is fill the bucket and pour it over you and that is called showering I call it frigging COLD !!!!!!

You stand in the room over a drain and rub washing up liquid all over the body and hair then pour buckets of water over yourself,    

it was at this stage I nearly screamed as a finger prods me in the butt as a cousin is now standing naked behind …………….. yes the plastic bolt was only for show ……she takes the bucket off me and insists on pouring it for me

Look you get the picture, you as you cover your chest with your arms and shiver someone pours a bucket of cold water over your head………………

If those lizards had a camera I would now be staring in some online porn magazine with a discreet title such as :

Hot and Horny Asian Chicks playing in the shower

Now at this point where all my male readers are getting the idea of two girls genteelly rubbing soap over each others naked bodies with some sensual music playing in the back ground …………………. Forget it ! ...............that sort of stuff does not happen in the real world ..........only in Guys dreams

That’s it nothing more, .........I just to grab my towel as a loud voice fills the room:

“AMY !! ask May if you can borrow some of her underwear as I have just put all of the things you left in the case in the wash, and tell her to hurry up as Uncle wants to shower next”  

Look just because I shower naked with a girl it does not mean I want to wear her panties!  and besides she is standing naked in front of me and can hear the one sided convesation as just as well as i can .......like how grown up would it sound if i shouted back in front of May that I did not want to wear May's spare undies..

And just why are they searching though my case to find washing, it is not that I would have packed dirty clothes.

At what point in my life will I even feel grown up?.

Geckos are lizards belonging to the family Gekkonidae, found in warm climates throughout the world. They range from 1.6 cm to 60 cm.

Geckos are unique among lizards in their vocalizations, making chirping sounds in social interactions with other geckos. Gekkonidae is the largest family of lizards, with over 2000 different species worldwide and many others likely yet to be discovered. The name stems from the Indonesian-Javanese word Tokek, inspired by the sound these animals make.
All geckos, excluding the Eublepharinae subfamily, have no eyelids and instead have a transparent membrane which they lick to clean. Many species will, in defense, expel a foul-smelling material and feces onto their aggressors. There are also many species that will drop their tails in defense, a process called autotomy. Many species are well known for their specialized toe pads that enable them to climb smooth and vertical surfaces, and even cross indoor ceilings with ease (one hypothesis explains the ability in terms of the van der Waals force). These antics are well-known to people who live in warm regions of the world, where several species of geckos make their home inside human habitations. These species (for example the House Gecko) become part of the indoor menagerie and are often welcome guests, as they feed on insects, including mosquitoes.
The largest species, the Kawekaweau, is only known from a single, stuffed specimen found in the basement of a museum in Marseille, France, and one documented sighting in the wild in 1870. This gecko was 60 cm (24 in) long and it was endemic to New Zealand, where it lived in native forests. It was probably wiped out along with much of the native fauna of these islands in the late 19th century, when new invasive species such as rats and stoats were introduced to the country during European colonization. The smallest gecko, the Jaragua Sphaero, is a mere 1.6 cm long and was discovered in 2001 on a small island off the coast of the Dominican Republic.^[2]

Common traits

Geckos come in various patterns and colors such as purple, pink, blue, and black, and are among the most colorful lizards in the world.
Some are subtly patterned and somewhat rubbery looking, while others are brightly colored. Some species can change color to blend in with their environment or with particular temperatures. Some species are parthenogenic, which means the female is capable of reproducing without copulating with a male. This improves the gecko's ability to spread to new islands. However, in a situation where a single female gecko populates an entire island, the island will suffer from a lack of genetic variation within the geckos that inhabit it. The gecko's mating call sounds like a shortened bird chirping which attracts males, when they are around. This allows a female to reproduce with more genetic variation, by using sexual reproduction instead of asexual.

[edit] Adhesion Ability

Close-up of the underside of a gecko's foot as it walks on vertical glass

The toes of the gecko have a special adaptation that allows them to adhere to most surfaces without the use of liquids or surface tension. The spatula tipped setae on gecko footpads allow attractive forces called van der Waals interactions to arise between the adhesive setae and the surface. One study suggested that capillary adhesion might play a role^[3], but that hypothesis has been rejected by more recent studies^{[4] [5] [6]}.
These van der Waals interactions involve no fluids; in theory, a boot made of synthetic setae would adhere as easily to the surface of the International Space Station as it would to a living room wall, although adhesion varies with humidity^{[5] [6]}. The setae on the feet of geckos are also self cleaning and will usually remove any clogging dirt within a few steps.^[7][8] Teflon, which has very low van der Waals forces,^[9] is more difficult for geckos to adhere to than many other surfaces.
Geckos' toes seem to be "double jointed", but this is a misnomer. Their toes actually bend in the opposite direction from our fingers and toes. This allows them to overcome the van der Waals force by peeling their toes off surfaces from the tips inward. In essence, this peeling action alters the angle of incidence between millions of individual setae and the surface, reducing the Van der Waals force. Geckos' toes operate well below their full attractive capabilities for most of the time. This is because there is a great margin for error depending upon the roughness of the surface, and therefore the number of setae in contact with that surface.

Uroplatus fimbriatus clinging to glass.

Use of small van der Waals attraction force requires very large surface areas: every square millimeter of a gecko's footpad contains about 14,000 hair-like setae. Each seta has a diameter of 5 micrometers. Human hair varies from 18 to 180 micrometers, so a human hair could hold between 3 and 36 setae. Each seta is in turn tipped with between 100 and 1,000 spatulae.^[7] Each spatula is 0.2 micrometer long^[7] (one five-millionth of a meter), or just below the wavelength of visible light.^[10]
If a typical mature 70 g (2.5 oz) gecko had every one of its setae in contact with a surface, it would be capable of holding aloft a weight of 133 kg (290 lb):^[11] each spatula can exert an adhesive force of 10 nanonewtons (0.0010 mgf)^[12]. Each seta can resist 10 milligrams-force (100 µN), which is equivalent to 10 atmospheres of pull.^[7] This means a gecko can support about eight times its weight hanging from just one toe on smooth glass.^[7]

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