Speedophobia

[Male Bonding etc]

Actually, even though I am a swimmer and I do wear Speedos, there is something to be said for being so well built that even covered up the body's assets shine through.

So, the loose shirt seems to cover a lot, but nipples and muscle are outlined in the loose fabric and glimpses are seen through the collar and sleeve openings. The much maligned sagging style swathes guys in yards of extra fabric, but ass cracks and ab ridges peek out and the bulge is less fettered than in tighter pants; so, it often is clearly outlined as the fabric drapes around it.

Recently at the beach I saw several guys with sagging board shorts that left half of their asses and all of their lower abs exposed. These were not the obese or skeletally thin guys. They were the ones one is happy to see so much of.

I am old enough and enough of a snob about classics that I like to see men and women, when attired, wearing simple tried and true traditional clothes. Khakis, Levis 501s, white t-shirts, button-down shirts and blouses, simple skirts and shorts, subtle colors... let your body speak for itself because it can even when covered so "traditionally." Certainly no one should be ridiculed for wearing whatever is comfortable, but board shorts do make sense at the beach... just as Speedos do in the pool.

 

[cofrader]

Speedo are for swimming fast, if you are really going to swim take some.
Any dirty thought because of them its on the head of the other people.

I understand that you must adapt yourself to the culture of each place, so if you are not going to swim for miles use some "swim trunks".

On my land they use a superlong "swim bermudas" (to the knee), I think that gave a lot of extra work to the lifeguards and to the graveyard.

 

[D_Harry_S_Taint]

speedo style are compulsory in public pools of France, so there's plenty of them

I choose to use this kind :

http://www.decathlon.fr/FR/images/assets/asset_7527929.jpg

 

[Qbig]

Hey, I happen to like board shorts. to the knee +-1 inch. Although that's mostly my rule for shorts in general.

I think that if you do swim more seriously (lengths or competitions) then you do want the speed from speedos, but for just playing around it's your option and board shorts or trunks do just fine.

Although maybe when you're looking to show you should have the more showy look of speedos, but not everyone is looking to show all the time.

 

[B_big dirigible]

1) Hi B.D. saw your reply and thought I'd put my oar in too. I don't really think that it is male insecurity so much as 'herd mentality'. When I was in college in the 1960's it was vitally important to look, act, dress and speak like everyone else. God forbid if you acted differently - you were probably gay! Never strike out on your own, don't do things differently.
2) I'm curious, do overly developed adult women in bikinis gross you out too? I hope so. On the other hand, if you life in a beach town, I would rather expect that you would find people walking around in bathing attire. What is so gross about that? Now if you mean that people so attired are walking into high class restaurants or department stores, you may have a point. On the other hand, if it is people walking from their lodgings to the beach or a snack shop or drug store to buy suntan supplies, I think that you are over-reacting. Specifically a bulging basket is no more gross lewd or anything else than a overly developed or sagging bosom or butt.:smile:

What you're trying to argue is fashion. Fashion isn't arguable, it just is.

 

[EddieAztek]

If I'm at the gym's pool, I am wearing a speedo like a PRO wears and fuck whoever fat, lazy ass if you don't like it. I am only wearing a boardie if I'm at the beach because I'm sick of the stupid staring and pouting from all the pigs on the beach who can't fit their ugly ass in a speedo. I hate this piece of shit boardies and if I'm wearing one, its above the knee and close to my leg as I can find it. Hate the fucking boardies.

 

[chavous]

i have been a swimmer all my life and grew up in the South wearing speedos. i have never felt funny about wearing them at the beach, pool..... i find them sexy!

 

[EddieAztek]

A serious swimmer going to wear speedos because you faster in speedos. He's not scared and worrying, trying to hide from everyone. Nobody want to see your shit and if they do, to hell with them!

 

[bigjohnnyuk]

Don't you guys find that Speedos gape at the leg? I find them really sexy (which possibly accoutns me me being, um, a little larger than usual!) but when I've tried them on, the extra anatomy at the front just stretches them out and leaves a big gap at the front of the leg hole which exposes rather too much for comfort! Also, as I believe has been mentioned elsewhere here, Speedos are seen as a joke in the UK. Really not sure why (although i guess the classic out-of-shape, flabby Brit body may have something to do with it!).

 

[WellHung83]

I find that the problem with some of the more higher cut racer style ones yeah, so to counter it I buy the more broad waisted 'regular' style ones. If you still have problems with it then I suggest you go for a square cut or those bicycle short style onces that, although longer, are still form fitting and quite sexy and fetching on the right guy.

 

[Peter Wood]

Don't you guys find that Speedos gape at the leg? I find them really sexy (which possibly accoutns me me being, um, a little larger than usual!) but when I've tried them on, the extra anatomy at the front just stretches them out and leaves a big gap at the front of the leg hole which exposes rather too much for comfort! Also, as I believe has been mentioned elsewhere here, Speedos are seen as a joke in the UK. Really not sure why (although i guess the classic out-of-shape, flabby Brit body may have something to do with it!).

My advice: take out the inside part of the double front. It makes it more stretchy. But your dick shows a little more through the fabric!

 

[bigjohnnyuk]

Yeah, I wear a blue pair of tight, square-cut trunks – they leave absolutely nothing to the imagination. I always have to kind of curl my dick down to one side – if it's straight to one side or stright up, it looks like I've got a bit over-excited! When they're wet they're especially clingy, which I love.

 

[whatireallywant]

I was wondering why Speedos became so unpopular. I hadn't thought of the "You might be thought of as gay" angle before...

I've heard women say that they don't like men in Speedos. Well, maybe if it's a fat guy in Speedos, yeah, but a fit guy wearing them... oh yeah, bring it on!

Even in Olympic swimming, they have switched from the Speedos to the full body suits. I don't know if they help speed any more than the Speedos, but they do make the swimming a bit less fun to watch. (still like it though - I love to watch all the Olympics, actually...) The divers do seem to still be wearing them. But I like the swimmers' bodies better.

 

[LeeEJ]

Even in Olympic swimming, they have switched from the Speedos to the full body suits. I don't know if they help speed any more than the Speedos, but they do make the swimming a bit less fun to watch. (still like it though - I love to watch all the Olympics, actually...) The divers do seem to still be wearing them. But I like the swimmers' bodies better.

For diving, you want freedom of movement, which is where Speedo-style briefs excel. Almost like being nude, except that the TV broadcasters and press photographers won't have to worry about blurring out the naughty bits.

For race swimming, you want speed; and if you could cover your body in a surface that gives less turbulence, that's what you wear. I've heard from enough competitive swimmers that their times drop significantly enough with long, sharkskin-like suits.

 

[MNGuy]

I think if i had a body I was was comfortable with (besides my dick, which i am confident of) I would consider wearing a speedo. But then again, if I was to become 'aroused', I would be in trouble.

 

[WellHung83]

For me it is all about the situation myself am personally in,not so much what others around me are thinking as a lot of the time those thoughts are often only in my head and not true. So for lap swimming at the pool I wear black racer speedos and when I am out casually and hanging out with friends or relatives I may tone it down a bit with a squarecut, though truthfully given how tight and revealing a squarecut can be when the material is as thin and clinging as a brief style, it is not THAT more modest. And if I am around someone 'special' or with some mates and we are slightly tipsy and there are no bathers to be had I just go naked.

 

[les123]

Long live the speedo !

 

[dolf250]

For diving, you want freedom of movement, which is where Speedo-style briefs excel. Almost like being nude, except that the TV broadcasters and press photographers won't have to worry about blurring out the naughty bits.

Besides those reasons could you imagine hitting the water from 10M with it flopping at an awkward angle. A belly flop would turn into a public casteration.

 

[WellHung83]

Long live the speedo !

Amen to that bro :biggrin1:

 

[LeeEJ]

Besides those reasons could you imagine hitting the water from 10M with it flopping at an awkward angle. A belly flop would turn into a public casteration.

That's half the reason that divers strive for good form upon entering the water -- self-preservation. :wink: