Testing the Waters

[Drenalin]

Being new to this board I decided my first post should relate to why I joined in the first place as well as gain some advice. Obviously this will all center around wearing speedos (I refer any bikini style swimwear as Speedos).
I've always had a preference to wearing Jockey bikinis beginning at a very early age. I found the bikinis to be far more comfortable and supportive than whitey-tighteys or any other underwear not to mention far more exciting. I even recruited a friend and a step-brother to toss aside their boring underwear for Jockeys. With that said one would assume that, being 28 now, I would have discovered the speedo long before now. Unfortunately, although I'd imagined what wearing a speedo at the pool would be like, I allowed the stereotypical BS to drown out thought of consideration.
It wasnt until last year that I bought my first Speedo however, I only bought it after realizing a new pair of trunks became very revealing when wet. But after a few trips to the pool I decided I had to try without the trunks. Shortly after, I tried swimming in my pool with a Speedo only and loved it.
A year later I still have yet to allow myself to be seen in a bikini even though I now own five different pair. It seriously has nothing to do with confidence as I would stroll down the center of town in a pair but has more to do with placing others in an uncomfortable situation. I live in a very conservative, but yet hypocritical, portion of the US. We allow our women to wear skimpy swimsuits that leave little for imagination and allow our teen boys to wear pants so large they fall down to their knees but get caught in a Speedo and you're automatically deemed gay, a pedifile or just nuts.
Like I mentioned, being seen in a speedo is not the problem. Just being seen in a speedo and not placed into any stereotypical category is. I guess you would call me a closet-speedo-wearer. I own my own pool and have many friends that come over and swim. Would it be acceptable to just walk outta the house in a speedo or should I continue to wear my board shorts when quests are around and only dorn the speedo when Im solo???