Iscream said:
Assume you were a female.... "We were walking down the hallway after practice and he grabbed a hold of my tank top and yanked it down. My tits spilled from my tanktop and John and the other guys got a nice look at my breasts.
Sound right to you???
No, it doesn't.
However, everybody here knows there is a double standard regarding nudity in the US. In the public eye, the male body just isn't as sacred as the female body and likely never will be. It is wrong, wrong, wrong, but, it's the way it is and has been for some time.
Back in the 50s, the YMCA demanded that men and boys would not be permitted swimsuits for lessons and recreational swimming. Supposedly, loosened fabric from swimwear caused problems in the filtration system of the Y pools. To reduce the strain on the drains, the modesty of YMCA male members was sacrificed, and everyone was fine with it. Again, this kind of double standard is nothing new.
What annoys me about the speedo is this BS about it being gay and how anything tight on a man is a horror unto Heaven. It's ridiculous, because most American men know we're too flabby and gross to wear a speedo with any dignity, and that's the damn honest truth of it. There was a time in this country, when men didn't indulge these kinds of insecurities about our bodies, and I think we were all healthier for it. Our bodies were thought of as tools for war or sex and used as such; they weren't treated like the Holy Grail.
Only in Hollywood movies, has the opposite been the case. Studios feared full-frontal for men in films could go one of two ways - envy of men or revulsion of all. As recently as 2004, Collin Farrell whipped out his black angus for
'A Home At the End of World', and men reacted so squeamishly at the test screenings that the scene was edited out.
