This is interesting. There are photos on the net from the 70s/80s of Jon Bonjovi wearing tight and dangerously short cutoff frayed denim shorts. He might have been self-objectifying, or not - but he wouldn't have been plagued by thoughts of "will anyone think I'm gay?" because it was always implicitly assumed that virtually nobody was (and that even if they were, they wouldn't admit it would they?). So the same goes for small swimwear. Because all sexual orientations are socially acceptable there are more things for men to consider. They may draw the wrong conclusions; we all do. But this is why we'll never see a return to small swimwear for men on public beaches.
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