Rumbling speedo discussion

[Schoolspeedo]

Last year I did quite a bit of 'wild swimming' with a friend and chanced wearing some briefer than normal bikini style speedos. Nothing that would have a wee old lady throwing her hands up in horror at their brevity or 'leaves little to the imagination' comments. He posted photos on a WhatsApp group we have along with my wife, who commented about how revealing they were, admittedly one was a very narrow white bikini. However in a discussion we later had about men’s brief swimwear, I made an observation about the modern day fashion of young women wearing these very tight, revealing 'athleisure' leggings. They are all the rage in the UK and are generally worn with the tiniest of thongs beneath which are quite visible or nothing at all showing quite a number of 'camel toes' on occasions. My argument being that it's OK for young people to wear this without anyone saying anything in any social media platform or normal media, that I've seen, but be a guy in speedos and all the negative comments come out about not wanting to see 'his junk' or package. Then there's the old chestnut about women's breasts being quite prominent in bikinis and bathing costumes but no one bothers about that. Just a thought.

[Torchwatch]

Women are trying to sell themselves, they spend a lot of time and effort getting their costumes and appearance just right, conscious of how they appear (on the beach) at any angle.
Men are the prospective customers, they are supposed to exhibit weath and power. Long shorts might be rubbish for swimming or sunning but they have pockets for wallets, cash and cards for paying for what a woman wants.
There's no pockets in a skimpy swim brief or thong, you're here to swim and sun not to hunt for women, that's socially unaccepable, are you gay?

[Schoolspeedo]

No mate, I'm not gay.

[Torchwatch]

A feminist woman recently said the dinosaurs were gay, they throw the word around indiscriminately.

[Jack Lewis]

I sense Torchwood's reply is slightly tongue in cheek, but it does raise some interesting points. While it's always been true that men are the hunters and women are the hunted, it's also true that there ARE actually some women out there who can appreciate the male physique and see it as more than just a wallet on legs. That said I am beginning to suspect these women might be in the minority. I think all of us here share the feel-good factor of something less than board-shorts and why should we be deprived of that? The price we heterosexual men pay is that some may misread the signs. We just have to decide if that bothers us or not. A long time ago I came to appreciate that generally people think 10 times more than they ever say, and that I will never know what people think of me or what I've done.

[PSDave]

Remember the word GAY has several meanings and isn't synonymous with homosexual

[Fairfax]

Like your mention Jack Lewis of the "feel good factor".
There are two reasons to like small swimsuits.
Apart from the sexual display aspect there is also the naturist element.
Women love that feeling of being almost nude while in swimwear but our (English speaking) society pretends men don't enjoy the same feeling.
If a man likes wearing small swimsuits it only ever seems to regarded as sexual.
I do wonder if maybe a decade or so from now men may "discover" the feel good factor again and they become mainstream like they were once.