http://www.smh.com.au/executive-style/much-ado-about-not-very-much-20101226-197xd.html?from=smh_sb
- Given that over 50% of Americans are now classified as "morbidly obese", I don''t think anyone wants to see more of them in a speedo...\
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Better they should be as covered up as possible.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, almost US Surgeon General
- Well it''s not just body issues; it''s bulge iissues. You don''t always want to show off your bulge or lack thereof. Some people are jut more shy, modest, etc.
- So true! Ever since gay men have been associated with tight fitting clothing, short shorts, and speedos, straight culture has shunned that type of clothing. Back in the60s and 70s before gays were really out there, men wore tight and fitted clothing. Thankfully this has not caught on in the rest of western culture.
- They also don''t take showers in school or prance naked in the locker-room now that they know they can''t necessarily spot the gays. Strange.
- This is the way to look when you're at the beach.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3121/2461234365_ea0af3557c.jpg
- Honey, if I had that body I'd wear tiger-striped hammock thongs too.
- americans are all dumb brain-washed sows when it comes to body-issues.
- It's true that when I was growing up men wore much less than they do now. Not only were bathing suits smaller, but shorts often were smaller and tighter (for younger men).
- Speedos should be illegal. The only guys who wear them in the U.S. are creepy exhibitionists are prancing [childish epithet posted by a bigoted tool]s. As one chick said, guys who wear speedos should just complete the picture and wear bikini tops because they are already wear bikini bottoms. Dudes look best wearing masculine, boxy/square cut trunks or board shorts, not a feminine bikini cut.
- As they say about nude beaches, it's always the people whose bodies you don't want to see who seem most intent on showing them off.
- OP? That article about swimsuits had far too many words and far too few pictures. You're an idiot.
- Speedos make my mouth water.
- It's the same in Europe, the covering up... It's not just the USA.
In France and Italy in the 70s they wore demi speedos with butt cleavage. Now they usually wear those dreadful long things like in America.
I posted a link here once, to a guy in Italy wearing those tiny speedos and the girl who had 'innocently' posted it with other pics of friends and family from the '70s, took it down, obviously alarmed to find it had been viewed over 1500 times and linked to a gay forum. lol.
(most of her other stuff had 10 views at most)
- & Rod Stewart took it to the extreme...
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- Ahh, remember all the calendars and photo books in the early 80s with men in Speedos? The cover of the "exercise" book Working Out by Charles Hix...
- R9 is so ridiculous.
- I'm American and a lot of my guys my age prefer trunks and board shorts, not because they have body shame, but because it looks masculine. Speedos and short shorts and tight pants are perceived as feminine and gay.
- From the article:
[quote]"American men have an aversion to displaying their bodies in public," one German visitor blogged. [bold]"Ever since gay men came out of the closet in the '80s and showed us who they were, straight American men went into the closet to show us what they weren't..."[/bold]
- Why would guys want to wear something that resembles a female bikini? It's the same reason guys ridicule briefs as tighty whities. Manties are not manly.
- This is so sad r9
I am thinking you are mixing Victorian morality up with masculity.
Guys now look like we are trying to win some Edwardian swimsuit contest so sad.
Guys in speedos made me gay!!
- R19 Why? Because it shows off the goods! DON'T ASK QUESTIONS!!
- r20, guys like to show off their upper bods. That is why they wear Under Armour shirts, tank tops, and sleeveless shirts.Dudes like to show off their upper body strength and musculature. It's what society views as the visible physical signs of masculinity in public. So, dudes are showing off their bods, just the upper bod. That's why so many guys only work out their upper bods, it's THE physical sign of masculinity in our society. Guys who show off their lower bodies are viewed as creepy, weird, or perverted.
- [quote]I'm American and a lot of my guys my age prefer trunks and board shorts, not because they have body shame, but because it looks masculine.
No, it doesn't look "masculine." Those board shorts look silly, just as silly as if they were wearing a thong. Neither is "masculine."
Guys wear board shorts because they're afraid they'll be accused of being gay if they wear something that's cut above their knees. It's peer pressure that makes them wear silly looking "shorts" and they're not man enough to wear something that looks good. It's a continuation of body shame from their younger days and they can't overcome or outgrow it.
- I wish basketball players didn't wear long shorts, they've almost become long pants. i like to see the athletes body, which includes legs.
- Give it up, R23. Your "body shame" narrative isn't convincing any hot guys to bare themselves so you can feast your pervy eyes on them.
- [quote] Your "body shame" narrative isn't convincing any hot guys to bare themselves so you can feast your pervy eyes on them.
Since when is it pervy to enjoy seeing the naked body? Perviness is in the eye of the beholder. I can appreciate a woman's body for the beauty if its form. There is nothing pervy in it. I can also enjoy admiring a great body on a man without being pervy about it. Is everybody who admires Michelangelo's 'David' being pervy?
Your body shame forces you to think that looking at the naked body is being perverted.
Ciaran
- r23, you make it sound like they would be inclined to wear short shorts if society didn't frown upon it. trust me, we grew up wearing basketball shorts, and that's what we like, who we are. hip hop styles predominate, and short shorts are not a part of it. you probably grew up pre-hip hop when short shorts were liked and ok. we never had any fondness for that type of style, and don't want to. we like our generation's style. stop trying to force the 1960s on our generation.
- [quote]stop trying to force the 1960s on our generation.
Force? Who's forcing you to change? If you want to look like you're some dork wearing culottes, just do it!!!!
- 1. The old G0Y Manifesto troll is also the anti-[childish epithet posted by a bigoted tool] troll. That took me a while.
2. They took my lead on tweed. More and more are heeding my call for 5" inseam shorts. They'll all wear square cut trunks within three years. Be patient.
3. OP is a shitty shitty queer for not posting visual aids in support of his premise.
- R21, perhaps I should've added, "they prefer to wear trunks and boarder shorts because THEY THINK it looks masculine." That's what the straight guys I know say. They associate short shorts with Daisy Dukes and thus feminine or gay. You may think they look like dorks, but they don't. Face it, your look is passe. You sound like those oldsters in the late '60s bemoaning the young men with long hair.
- R30 probably has a mullet hair cut to go with the culottes.
- I still can't get out of my head a guy I saw in orange lycra speedos at a gay swim meet 20 years ago. Pony tail, phenomenal body, and the most eye-popping packed in lunch, which had everyone buzzing. Pure magic.
The thing about Speedos reflects America's childish Puritan hangups with the male body. But the pendulum will swing again. In another 20 years or so I suspect cocks will again be outlined in trousers like they were in the 70s.
- [quote] In another 20 years or so I suspect cocks will again be outlined in trousers like they were in the 70s.
Doubt it. But even if it does, you'll be dead or in the retirement castle by then, elderqueen.
- R19, I wear briefs because they are better. who gives a fuck what others think
- [quote]Guys who show off their lower bodies are viewed as creepy, weird, or perverted.
which is idiocy
- [quote]I'm American and a lot of my guys my age prefer trunks and board shorts, not because they have body shame, but because it looks masculine.
it looks like a skirt to me so it comes across as girlish and silly to me
- [quote]hip hop styles predominate, and short shorts are not a part of it.
The pendulum has already swung past you, new eldergay, THAT "hip hop style" of yours is [italic]tired[/italic].
Kids are wearing stovepipe pants again and pointy shoes like back in...ah, guess what?
The%20sixties.
- R35 gay kids perhaps, but not straight ones.
- None of the hip hop guys have any problem letting their pants hang low exposing an ass crack that practically eats their tight underwear up.
- [quote]straight American men went into the closet to show us what they weren't. Before the late '80s men wore shorter shorts and swimwear was short and fitted. Men used to be so free and liberated then. Now they are scared.'
There are NO young men in any country in the world wearing skimpy bathing suits on the beach with the possible exception of Brazil and even there at least half the men on the beach have several yards of material in their bathing suits. Pretending this is only happening in the U.S. is total bullshit. Show me a current pic of any beach in the world (non-nude) where the majority of the men are NOT wearing down-to-the-knee bathing suits....
crickets%20chirping
- I love men in Speedos and loved all those 80s spring break type comedies where even the most masculine men would be in a Speedo.
Times have changed.
- With a nice square-cut, you don't have to worry about inner thigh hair.
Sometimes speedos make you look like you have Will Ferrel in a scissor-hold.
- thank you, r40, from what I have experienced and heard while traveling in Europe and Latin Americans, young guys there don't wear speedos today either. They have adopted the American trunks as the predominate swimwear.
- r37, perhaps that's the style in VERY WHITESVILLE USA, but I live in a much more urban and colorful environment, and hip hop still rules here!
- r40 needs to visit Australia.
- [quote]Ever since gay men came out of the closet in the '80s and showed us who they were, straight American men went into the closet to show us what they weren't.
It has a lot to do with the women. If they didnt think speedos were the garb of gay men, they would buy them for their men. And the men would wear them. Women buy most of straight men's clothing. The funny thing is, most women probably really like how speedos look, but they just dont want everyone to think their guy is gay.
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- No doubt a lot of it has to do with fad and trend- but clearly, as is so blatantly obvious on this thread- gender insecurity, misogenism and homophobia have a lot to do with it too.. Gotta feel sorry for a lot of posters on this thread like R9.
charlie
- Dudes are wearing this in Brasil today.
http%3A//tapthatguy.com/post/17662486107
- R40, that is true. Thanks to everyone wanting to mimic American styles, the world has become homogenized.
- "who gives a fuck what others think"
THAT, you scaredy-cat hip-hop kids, is how a man thinks.
- R45, YOU need to visit Australia. The beach I went to recently had virtually no speedos on any guy under 50. Even the lifesavers were wearing long shorts, not speedos. Very disappointing. Why does everyone in the world hate the U.S. (allegedly) and yet they all want to be us????
- Mmm..
- Odd, if no one is wearing them, that stores would still stock Speedos.
- My boyfriend wears bikini underwear, but only the bottoms.
Rose%20Nylund
- r46, Ill take two of him please...
- "Masculine" guys have no problem exposing their chests and abs, but not their legs? Considering how low slung some of the "boring" shorts and jeans are these days, showing lower abs and the "v". Let's see some thigh and bulge, dudes.
I guess in some cases it would be from homophobia but it seems really arbitrary to me, like most fashion.
That said, if you don't have the body for it, for God's sake, don't wear a speedo.
- Nicholas Clay had the body for a Speedo.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ql313lzeKBc/Tn8-IAJ6pSI/AAAAAAAALC4/cugdxHf6BTs/s1600/nicholas clay.jpg
- I certainly don't think speedos are for everyone, but I also don't think a person should be looked down upon for wearing one. It's no one's business at all! Look at all the fat, fugly chicks who waddle around in way too small a bathing suit... We may not love that, but we just roll our eyes and look away. It doesn't become a media story. People were generally healthier in the '70s and the body types of young people tended towards the lean. Hart Bochner and his blonde friend in Breaking Away personify what I'm talking about; the trim, healthy, attractive young man in a speedo as a matter of course. No steroids, six-pack abs, fake tan, waxing, etc... just a guy in a small suit.
As far as lifeguards go, board shorts actually prevent them from swimming as fast as they should be in order to save a life!
- One of the HDmovie channels is playing Private Resort (1985) with Rob Morrow and Johnny Depp. They both wear more coverage in their suits, but many of the extras, of all shapes and sizes, are in speedos. It was neat! Of course, both leads also have extended bare ass scenes to make up for some of the lack of frontal exposure.
- Rob Morrow had such a great body in that movie.
- Do they even sell speedos in most American clothing stores? The only place I see them are in Sporting Goods stores like Sports Authority.
- [quote] In another 20 years or so I suspect cocks will again be outlined in trousers like they were in the 70s.
When you say it's gonna happen now... when exactly do you mean? See, I've already waited too long, and all my hope is gone.
borderline-eldergay
- [quote]Do they even sell speedos in most American clothing stores?
Not outside of L.A. and NYC, no.
- I've seen men's Speedos in clothing stores in San Diego, Fort Lauderdale, the Hamptons, Cape May, and Savannah.
- The stigma against speedos is so strong that only very daring [childish epithet posted by a bigoted tool] guys will wear it in America. Older men just don't care. It's becoming that way in Europe too.
- I love the guy in the Speedo in the Carls Jr Turkeyburger ad. Yum.
- Sarah Powell @sare_bear101
Foreigners in speedos #notagoodlook
- no self-respecting guy should wear board-shorts, thread closed.
- r68, if you want respect, you don't wear speedos.
- Any self-respecting guy should wear whatever they want.
- Yay R70! Too much sheep mentality in the world.
- [quote]Sometimes speedos make you look like you have Will Ferrel in a scissor-hold.
LOLZ! Worth the price of admission today, thanks!
- Think beach and most guys like to think bikinis, but what’s more important is the choice of male beachwear as you enjoy the sun, sand and surf this summer.
From board shorts, jammers, trunks, speedos to mankinis, there’s an ever increasing variety of men’s swimwear. So how do you find the perfect suit for you to chill out in?
You can begin by striking thongs, G-strings or mankinis off the list (unless you’re Borat!). Fashion designer Amanda Bachalli advises, “Make your choice based on what you’re going to be doing at the beach. Are you going swimming, playing a sport or just lounging around?” While jammers and briefs are suitable for serious swimming, board shorts are best for surfing and trunks are the most versatile.
Model Acquin Pais tells us, “I usually prefer swim trunks but if I’m going surfing, then the longer board shorts are more comfortable.” Though he’s always in shape for the beach, the model admits, “I wouldn’t wear a pair of speedos. I think celebs like Daniel Craig and John Abraham look great in them but they’re not for everyone.”
Acquin adds, “In India especially, guys tend to focus on the upper body while working out so they end up with skinny legs. To carry off speedos you need to not only be fit, but also have a strong pair of legs. Otherwise you’ll just look like Johnny Bravo!”
Event organiser Zubair AH agrees, saying, “If I had that kind of body, then I’d show it off in a pair of speedos too.” Seeing as most guys aren’t 007 material, however, he adds, “I think swim trunks are the best choice. They’re quite a bit roomier, they’re comfortable and they suit most guys.”
Amanda adds, “What guys need to do is stop playing safe and experiment more with bright colours and patterns. Even if they’re wearing plain trunks, they can have colourful trimmings to brighten it up.”
Student Pradeep Rao sums it up saying, “The beach is where you go to see and be seen. So get in shape, go shopping and don’t forget your sunscr
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- Spring Break 2012 - Knees! Knees! Knees!
Male college students are wearing shorts that are at or above the knee. The old calf-length board shorts seem limited to junior high and some high school students.
I saw Speedo-clad students at two beachfront hotel pools. They were competing in some swim events. No college males in Speedos on the beach but a few were wearing square cuts.
- You can begin by striking thongs, G-strings or mankinis off the list (unless you’re Borat!). Fashion designer Amanda Bachalli advises, “Make your choice based on what you’re going to be doing at the beach. Are you going swimming, playing a sport or just lounging around?” While jammers and briefs are suitable for serious swimming, board shorts are best for surfing and trunks are the most versatile.
Model Acquin Pais tells us, “I usually prefer swim trunks but if I’m going surfing, then the longer board shorts are more comfortable.” Though he’s always in shape for the beach, the model admits, “I wouldn’t wear a pair of speedos. I think celebs like Daniel Craig and John Abraham look great in them but they’re not for everyone.”
- I wear just a regular swim trunk to the pool, but when I'm lying in the lounge chair, I hike up the sides for a more full coverage tan. I can't believe my eyes when I see young guys laying out in LONG board shorts and they actually keep tugging the legs DOWN if they happen to ride up above the knee. Why would you want tan lines that begin at the knee?? (I know someone will say, "Why would you want tan lines at all?!" I mean this for people who like to be in the sun...)
- It's no different than women wearing a string bikini or a thong- you have to have the body for it or you'll get harpooned.
- bb
- I noticed that someone who had a Speedo blog was made to list it as "adult content." That's really pathetic.
- This is what is known as a "low rise" Speedo.
http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyi03bmR7H1rn0i41o1_500.jpg
- Speedo Blog is adult content. Not appropriate for children.
- I hate speedos.
- [quote]I hate speedos.
Most people who are 140 lbs. overweight hate speedos, r82. In-shape people like speedos and wish they could wear them without scorn from ugly fat people.
- r83, you want to poll most dudes in mainstream America who are fit? You can ask the guys at my gym, at the basketball court, on college football/basketball/lacrosse/soccer teams? I know a lot of very fit young college and military guys (my peers), and none of them wear speedos. In fact, they ridicule them in the sharpest terms. I don't think you know modern American fit males very well.
- I vacation all over Europe and almost every male wears speedos. Any age, any body, any package. No issue at all. If they hide something, they wear a t-shirt to the speedos to hide the beer belly. The longer shorts are a fashion item for the younger guys, but not because of prudish thoughts to hide the bulge. It's hip cause it's American. Utter nonsense, I know.
- But the younger dudes are the cool/hot ones. Why would anyone emulate the uncool dudes with busted bodies?
- [quote]I know a lot of very fit young college and military guys (my peers), and none of them wear speedos. In fact, they ridicule them in the sharpest terms. I don't think you know modern American fit males very well.
Of course they ridicule them. That's what they're EXPECTED to do so they just fall in line. The same guys, in a private backyard pool, will be wearing a speedo. You obviously don't know the lemming mindset of modern American fit males.
- "In fact, they ridicule them in the sharpest terms."
When you're not around, I'm sure they're ridiculing your ass, so your point is.....?
- speedos are not cool, dude
- R86 So, I hide my body, because someone looking less fit wears the same swimwear? Nope. Sorry, but Speedos are unpopular in America, because you all have body issues (proven by the growth of this insane plastic surgery industry during the last years). Europe is far more liberal und less uptight in these matters. And I do hope it stays this way.
R85
- Board shorts are getting shorter - about three inches above the knee is the latest length on the surfers and in the surf shops. Living in a beach town, I get to see the changing styles so it's nice to see shorter shorts again.
- I don't like short shorts on guys. It looks weird and girly. They are only getting short amongst a certain, uh, type of guys, not the large majority.
- R92= Eff. Troll who realises the Webby is on to him. Just say it, bitch.
Short shorts on guys who aren't fat says to me they have the confidence not to give a fuck about what advertising/'society' tells them. A recent Fosters beer advert scoots around the issue of whether it's okay for a straight guy to allow his friend rub sunblock onto his back and the 'experts' on the other end say "It's fine but lose the 'budgie smugglers'" i.e. a very clear but coded homophobic message designed to appeal to Neanderthal straight men.
How they got away with that I have no idea. The REAL man wouldn't give a fuck if people saw two buds helping each other out and assumed they were a gay couple.
God I fucking hate advertising.
The fact is, if you're lean and have at least a modicum of definition and are also relatively young looking, break out the trunks or Speedos, because you'll probably look good in them. Board shorts are conservative immature fratboy bullshit, unless you're actually surfing.
-rant ends-
ayb
- Thank you for being the voice of reason, AYB. I'm in love with you more now than ever, LOL.
And R92, the "large majority" of guys of which you speak are out of shape and ugly and look ridiculous in just about anything, so I guess you're throwing yourelf in that max as well, right?
- What r90 said. Most young straight guys in America are way more body conscious now than anyone would like to admit. They like to be covered even in locker rooms.
And you just aren't going to expose that much of your body if you dont like how it looks in the first place. Women have always been like that, and now the men are the same way. Add that to the current clothing style you'll find no one in speedos.
By the time most young guys get over their body consciousness, they are older and not in shape. And most American guys get fat after 25 anyway.
For you, r92:
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- What do they wear in the DOminican Republic?
- "By the time most young guys get over their body consciousness, they are older and not in shape. "
That's called being so hopeless you have no pride in your appearance.
- There is this one dude at the gym who wears speedos. He is the same guy that wear tights to lift weights while people roll their eyes at him. People look nervous when he is wearing speedos and avoid him. He is one bold dude.
- pools open in three weeks. how many dudes will wear speedos at your pool?
- d
- my pool opens this weekend
- Speedos were Australian. Google Aussie Rules football. You'll see that even their footballers shorts are cut high. None of that baggy daggy puritan shit.
- The mostly young gays who say that speedos look like female bikini bottoms are so conditioned by the straight mass media that they can't clearly think for themselves even as gay folk. They don't read Maxime but damn Carmen Electra should wear those speedos.
Speedos came into fashion during the unisex craze that started in the 60s up to the mid 1980s. Men and women wearing almost the same thing, gender free clothing, hair styles etc. Sci-fi shows almost always showed the future as being advanced and unisex which was a trending thought back then. Only after decades of conservative culture has the unisex trend disappeared. All men wear blue. All women wear pink. It's an ugly world out there and ain't because of speedos.
- Gee, straight men are insecure lemmings.
What a shock!
- Looking at the surfers this weekend, it's evident that board shorts cut above the knee are in style.
- No body shame here.
http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxya0dWfAH1qf3azxo1_500.jpg
- Thong or Speedo?
Which do you prefer?
http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2clgtY9AI1r0l67go1_500.jpg
- Small package
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-m6PvZ08236s/T5KXfmeI8LI/AAAAAAAARVE/1PoqFrlw0Ps/s400/stronger.jpg
- Speedo couple
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m29lkhvnNj1rosqkjo1_500.jpg
- I watched a nice fit-fat guy jogging in a wet speedo in Miami this week. I was transfixed on his ass and thighs bouncing up and down, some people just look better in speedos than others
- In the ocean
http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2db6r9dqB1rosqkjo1_500.jpg
- I like the boxer style swimtrunks but I always cut out the inner thing so my big junk can just swing free when I get out of a pool with a semi hard on....the boys just drool...
HUGEANDLOVINGIT
- Is that the same couple we see in r109, r111?
- Haven't seen any dudes wearing speedos at pool yet. All board shorts and trunks with young dudes.
- "Speedos came into fashion during the unisex craze that started in the 60s up to the mid 1980s."
Hmmm, never heard that. I like the distinctions between the sexes including clothing personally.
- g
- h
- unisex
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- They look better when you have a nice ass to fill them up
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- wow r9, you have some serious issues to overcome...sad
- r17...wow just wow
sad
- Americans, if you see a dude with a speedo on, snap a pic and let us evaluate the situation.
- If it's good enough for Russell...
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- Perfect swimwear
- Nice and tight!
- The fucking word is "predominant", not "predominate", you fucking imbecile retards. I am SO FUCKING SICK of seeing this everywhere!!! What the fuck is WRONG with people??
- What's wrong is that they wear their speedos far too tightly
- [quote]Board shorts are conservative immature fratboy bullshit, unless you're actually surfing.
Testify, AYB.
I'm so fucking tired of seeing clones with board shorts hanging below the knees. A muscular thigh is a beautiful thing. Sure beats seeing shaved pube stubble.
- Nobody wants to see flabby morbidly obese americans showing your hanging love-handles.
speedo-wearing%20fit%20men%20of%20the%20world
- IMHO...seems like his bulge was diminished from too much use of steroids.
- Nudes are rude
But speedos are neato!
- There are many types of speedos and different brands like it now. If you are not insecure then do what you want. I wear one all the time when i swim. I am 29 and quite frankly it is more comfy in the water. Im not the perv for wearing them. you are the perv for staring and making a huge deal of it. if i have to look at camel toe, you can look at a bit of a bulge. and to the hag that said its childish.... i am willing to bet you always wear a pony tale and a dress that covers your whole legs. it is 2012 and its time to get out of others buisness about what and why they do what they do. there is nothing wrong with being comfy and having a good time in the water. Only in America do you find such stupid people to make a huge deal out of stupid things. Were your swimgear proudly men.
- I agree
- Nicely done
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- Long shorts and bathing suits are more a result of the influence of black athletes starting with basketball players. Before their influence, everthing had gotten really short through the 70's. Starting in the 80's, blacks had a real aversion to wearing short shorts. Bathing suits just followed that trend.
- r135, I agree that African American and urban culture has driven style, especially for men. And for that, I am grateful.
- Ugh, not me
- [quote]And for that, I am grateful.
Bleech. Oh, hell NO.
Bring%20back%20the%20old%20basketball%20shorts%2C%20%20.%20.%20.%20.
- r138, those nut huggers were obscene and repulsive. People today can't believe basketball players actually wore those hot pants. They look like chicks.
- Today's basketball players look like they're wearing culottes - they're just one degree from wearing a skirt.
- That can't be comfortable wearing all of that Frock and fribbery
- Damm, that ass @ 134 looks tasty.
- ;
- nasty nastay!
- Dirty speedo
http%3A//dirty-speedo.tumblr.com/
- looking good and nasty!
- Nice Speedo bulges in some of these photos
http://dirty-speedo.tumblr.com/page/3
- I love the hairy guy
- r147 that is not a speedo. It is a square cut.
- [quote]that is not a speedo. It is a square cut.
While some may be square cut, the page has Speedo styles also. Don't you have a scroll bar on your screen so that you can move down the page?
- Check this hose!
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4qi3u1ZWf1qdlpx1o1_500.jpg
- Hot day, I see
- This guy must have spilled some ice cream on his Speedo.
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4c4m1ePBL1qdlpx1o1_1280.jpg
- Whoa, imagine finding him in your backyard
- Yank colors with Saudi Air Force plane. Strange photo.
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3ubu2uRFl1ql3ywmo1_500.jpg
- WTF is that?
- Speedo tan lines
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1nqykBJhf1qbtfb6o1_500.jpg
- "those nut huggers were obscene and repulsive. People today can't believe basketball players actually wore those hot pants. They look like chicks."
This post reeks of homophobia, sexism and every kind of prudish and provincial impulse that the '70s, had we done them properly, would have banished to history's dustbin.
- One of those tree hugging people
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ludd45EQbA1r4kgf6o1_500.jpg
- sorry but you lost, r158
- some guys have more to keep in their speedo than others
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- Not one speedo yet at my complex pool. Not even the non-Americans. Cool.
- Well, the Future history of the speedo lies in . . . .Russia!
I just finished an article in this month's National Geographic about Russian Dachas (summer vacation cottages) and their Dachniki. This is all likely translated but here it goes:
"A word about the dacha dress code: For Men: Speedos, sometimes paired with rubber boots. "Why do Russian men wear Speedos?'I don't know, but it is truly Russian,' Says Melissa Caldwell, a social anthropologist at the U of Cali, Santa Cruz. 'I once almost had to burn my eyes after walking through a park in St. Petersburg and encountering what seemed like thousands of middle-aged men sunbathing in their Speedos')"
- Cool r162? Sounds more like middle America boring.
- r164, not wearing speedos is not synonymous with boring. good taste, yes, but not boring.
- or dullness
- There is a dude who wears a speedo on American Ninja. He is portrayed as doing it as a joke and the announcers are clearly creeped out by his wearing it on the show.
- New speedo sighting
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- During the sandbar 4th of July sequence in Magic Mike, most of the strippers were wearing jams (except Alex Rodriguez, who wears a European-cut swimsuit). I imagined all the middleaged & elderly DLers who post endlessly here (& on threads like this) howling impotently in fury during that scene.
- jams are ugly
- PROVO, Utah -- A Utah police officer fired for dropping his pants and flaunting a green Speedo during a "Princess and the Frog" skit at a school is getting his job back.
Cody Harris filed an appeal after he was dismissed from his position as a Provo school resource officer in May. The Provo Civil Service Commission decided Wednesday that Harris should be reinstated.
Provo police said in an email that the department still backs its initial decision to fire Harris, but it will honor the commission's decision.
Harris was dismissed after Provo police said he removed his pants to show off the Speedo-style suit and made inappropriate gestures and comments while a group of female students were nearby.
Harris will receive training to work in the patrol division.
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- Saw two square-cut Speedos at the beach yesterday.
- saw a normal speedo at the pool today - hot muscle bear too
- Looks better than board shorts.
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvn4zkdY9C1r7zqw6o1_500.jpg
- VaVaVoom!
- Olympian shows off his newest Speedo.
http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/304815_10150954796171304_1650243229_n.jpg
- Well, I was surfing on the net and I came to this topic...what is the matter in the US to wear short shorts or speedos?
I am Italian and I always wear speedos. I feel much more free and it dryes very quickly.
A lot of men here wear them without all this concern...isn't this a bit childish? Masculinity is not about what you wear, is about how you are...of course, you need to have a fit body and good legs to wear speedos...otherwise girls would just laugh at you!
Marco
- Yes, you Europeans are so enlightened. I especially enjoy the intellect evinced by your former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his 'bunga bunga' parties.
Can We Just Let This Thread Die?
- Tom Daley, reigning King of all Speedos!
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- Pinky
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aYBzKpaI7Ho/UB6Hd5eYScI/AAAAAAAAAaU/Mbc-VU0hfR0/s640/Erick Seng 3.jpg
- Moon over Miami
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbg5cfq7l71qe4gnro1_500.jpg
- For those who "just want this thread to die."
Suck on it!
- I met the guy who designed speedos once. He complimented me on the colour combination of my outfit. He told me he did design speedos, but I didn't know it was him so I brushed him off. I later on saw a picture of him in a local newspaper.
Anonymous
- American men are more self-conscious about their bodies than anyone outside the Arab world
