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Your experience doesn't trump scientific facts about cotton's properties. But on re-reading your comment it sounds like your experience may be based on using cotton in cold climates - obviously in a cold climate, the sweat absorbed by the cotton won't dry fast enough making you feel like you are wearing a wet clothe around you (and hence the chafing experience). In hot weather, when you sweat, the cotton absorbs it and when it evaporates it helps in cooling down your body. That is why cotton is the most preferred, and recommended fabric, in any hot climate.

In fact, it is so good at cooling down your body that some exaggerate that cotton kills hikers in cold weather - https://www.heddels.com/2020/01/does-cotton-kill-the-moistur... ...