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Originally Posted by Schoolspeedo
My wife and I were in the city of Bath recently and spent time at the thermae spa, heated by the natural hot spring waters the come up from deep in the earth, for which Bath is famous. The spa is on 4 levels, with an open air pool on the roof and various steam rooms, saunas floors below with an indoor pool on the basement. I was the only male wearing speedos, one of my 4cm sides by 'oddballs'; as brief as I dare wear. However, all other men were wearing boring shorts. Similarly hardly a decent swimsuit on the women; all one pieces asisdefrom a tiny black string tie bikini on a 20 something, another couple of simpyish bikinis and a tiny, floral, pastel thong on a late teen/20 year old, though I did get a smile from her when I entered the lower pool in my speedo and every place happened to thereafter, she seemed to be there with her mum and sisters in bikinis. Such a disappointment, but I guess that's the 'norm'
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I think it’s an uphill battle that we won’t win, at least in my lifetime. Even here in Northern California, it’s nearly all board shorts and trunks. Only saw two men during all my outings so far this summer wearing anything else - one wearing a standard “conservative” speedo, and another in a string thong.
Women have it so great here - they can wear anything (or almost nothing). Mostly string bikinis and thongs at my favorite beach.
Bottom line is that we should wear what we want and enjoy it, with courage and confidence.
Yes it is disappointing. On the other hand, we all need to give it the old college try! Only place I’m aware of, where anything goes as the norm, is the south of France.