Yes, absolutely!
I wish more guys wore thongs. North American society is very sexist towards guys showing skin at the beach! If women can wear skimpy swimsuits that show their butt cheeks then so can men! It's too bad more guys don't wear one, they're very comfortable plus it's such a freeing and liberating experience!
Here's my cute little butt in a thong swimsuit! LOL
They're playing my thong
In the summer of 2023 I wore a backless thong swimsuit at the public beach for the first time and I just loved it! It made me feel good to be that naked and I was even complimented for wearing it! I've worn it there several times now.
I have a “Dad Bod” with a chubby tummy and love handles but I love wearing skimpy Speedo style swimsuits. I've been doing so since 1993 when I was a slim young 20 year old guy. Nobody has ever said anything negative to me. Recently I've been wanting to wear a men's thong swimsuit. At 49 I'm not getting any younger so I just went for it and did it anyways. It was awesome!
I rode my bike to the beach and had worn my thong underneath my shorts, so when I got there all I had to do was pull off my shorts and go for a swim. I took off my shirt and then I went for the shorts and hesitated. My anxiety was starting to get the better of me and I was beginning to talk myself out of doing it. This was my second attempt to do this, so I decided that I'd better just do it to get it out of my system, and then I would know one way or other if I liked wearing a thong in public or not. Really, there's only one way to find that out and that's to just wear 'em.
So I took a deep breath and then off went the shorts! For the first time in my life my butt cheeks were exposed at the public beach. (Well, not counting the time when I was three and my parents let me run around in my birthday suit! LOL) I felt rather vulnerable and nervous as I quickly packed my clothes and shoes into a bag and put on my sandals. Then came the next hard part, walking from the bike rack to the beach in a thong! Oh boy!
It was an unusually hot summer day so I figured that I had that on my side. People couldn't fault me for wanting to stay cool in this weather by wearing less clothing. I don't know how sound that logic was, but at the time I figured it made sense, so with another deep breath off I went. I had only taken three steps when a man saw me. "This is it!" I thought, "He's going to cuss me out and call me a pervert."
The man stopped in his tracks when he saw me and smiled really big. Then he gave me a wonderful compliment. It seemed like he was so surprised to see a guy's bare butt in a thong that he was at a loss for words. He simply said “That's the riiiiiiight outfit! Really nice to see!” He was smiling really big as he was pleasantly surprised to see me in my thong. I was still feeling quite nervous, and I get anxious socializing with people under the best of circumstances anyway, so I just smiled back, said thank you and gave him a thumbs up. He waved and continued on his way. I'm glad that I was able to unintentionally add something nice to his day that made him smile. I certainly appreciated hearing the compliment, it was what I needed to hear at just the right time.
Otherwise nobody said anything to me for the rest of the day. Many people saw me on the beach in my thong but came and went without any drama. In between going for a swim I just lay out on the beach working on my tan, sometimes I even lay on my stomach with my thong butt exposed for all to see. It was so relaxing! I'm glad that I did it!
So you wanna wear a thong to the beach?
Go for it! You only live once! It doesn't matter what shape your body is in. Even if you're the most athletically fit person in your neighborhood someone will still find something to complain about. Unfortunately in our society it's unavoidable. People just love to shame others, any excuse will do.
There's always going to be someone who complains or makes negative noise. There will always be haters who just want to spread their pessimism and make others feel worse than they do. So expect to hear it because then when it happens you won't be so surprised by it. It's never easy to be on the receiving end of someone's toxic comments but all you can really do about them is to ignore them.
Don't respond at all to toxic people because that's what they want. They want to draw you into their toxic world and bring you down to their level. They want to cause drama and manipulate you into getting angry. They feel a rush of power controlling you that way because they are toxic people. Don't give your power away to them, ignore them, say nothing, walk away and be proud of yourself for having the courage to do your own thing.
You don't have to have a perfect body or even an athletic one to wear a Speedo or a thong on the beach. Your body is fine just the way it is. There's no rulebook that says your body has to look a certain way in order to wear a skimpy swimsuit. You don't have to be an athlete, just being a human being is all that you need! Admittedly, I still feel self conscious about my tummy when I wear my thong, but talking negatively to myself is not helpful. Nothing good will come from putting myself down. So instead I tell myself: Have compassion for yourself, you don't need to be perfect, you just need to be you!
People who insist that a guy has to have perfect model's body to wear a speedo or a thong at the beach are dead wrong. Those are just the judgmental people, forget about them. Better to have a thong up your butt than a stick! People may have their own expectations but you aren't living your life to make other people happy, you're living it to make yourself happy. Regular guys with regular bodies can wear skimpy swimsuits if they want to. So wear your Speedo or thong and just enjoy life.
Why don't more heterosexual guys wear thongs?
I'm gay, but that's not why I wear a thong. To suggest such a thing is homophobic. I never see any other guys wearing a thong at the beach, and that includes gay guys too! I like to wear it because it's comfortable and I like to be as naked as possible when I go for a swim. If I can't be naked outside at the public beach then I'm going to wear a skimpy thong.
Frankly, it makes no sense to me why more guys aren't wearing skimpier style bathing suits to show off for the ladies. Wouldn't you rather have a girlfriend who wants to see you in a sexy skimpy swimsuit and compliments you on how your package looks in it, as compared to a girlfriend who thinks that a guy's body looks gross in a Speedo? Some women actually say that about men! They think a man's body is gross! That's a rotten thing to say about anyone, especially your boyfriend.
As for the idea that a heterosexual guy needs to keep his body covered up in long shorts so that a gay guy can't check him out, well that's just silly. If a guy has a nice body, yes some gay men will check him out, but only some because if the hetero guy isn't the type of guy that a gay guy is interested in, the gay guy wouldn't have the slightest interest in checking the hetero guy out, so please keep the ego in check.
Gay guys are just as diverse and selective as heterosexual guys, some only like chubby men, some prefer slim, some like older men while others like younger. Some guys are into muscular men and some aren't, etc. As such, regardless of how good looking you might think you are, hetero guys do not have to worry about having a horde of gay men chasing after them if they wear their Speedo to the beach. That is an urban myth based solely on narcissism and ego. Few gay men would even have the nerve to ask a hot guy what time it is let alone to hit on him, but if a gay man does happen to show interest in you, all you have to do is tell him politely that you're not gay. It's no big deal.
More importantly, gay people, both men and women combined, only make up four percent of Canada's total population. So unless the beach you're at is having a gay pride event or is located next to a gay bar, odds are fewer than four out of every one hundred people at the beach will be gay. Or to put it another way, at least 96 percent of the men at the beach will be heterosexual. Meanwhile 50.9 percent of Canada's population is female, so odds are at least half of the people that you see at the beach will be heterosexual women. Women who could be ogling you and flirting with you because you're wearing a sexy skimpy swimsuit. Obviously not all of them will want to do that, but you can bet there will be a significantly greater number of women that will check you out than the few gay men who might happen to, if you're even their type.
Shaming men for showing more skin
Sadly, our society shames men who show a lot of skin in public, which creates another barrier for guys who want to wear Speedo style or thong swimsuits. The stigma foolishly insists that if a man shows skin in public it's because he is weaker than men who don't, or that he is gay.
Well if every man who showed more skin in public was gay, I'd be living in a utopian world! As a gay man I can assure you that, unfortunately, that's simply not the case. Not to mention how immature it is to think such a thing! As for the notion that showing skin implies weakness, try telling that to a boxer or wrestler see how well that goes for you!
If women can wear a skimpy swimsuit in public that shows off their butt cheeks then so can men. Equality goes both ways. Though what it really comes down to is that the majority of men are simply not brave enough to step it up a notch and show off their bodies in a sexy skimpy swimsuit.
It's really too bad that so few men have the courage to wear a Speedo or a thong and put their buddies in their place when they start spewing stupid anti-gay logic. That's simply toxic masculinity at work. Aren't heterosexual men better than that? I'd like to think so, but I'll tell you this much, that toxic masculinity stuff makes me soooo glad that I'm gay! I get to dismiss it all and just do my own thing.
Just do your own thing
I find myself thinking more and more that people need to stay out of other people's business and just live and let live. We don't have to agree on who is right or wrong or even like each other, we just have to be civil. You do your thing and I'll do mine.
So just do your own thing and be you, and forget about the idiots who feel the need to get in everyone business and make negative comments. Don't even respond to them, just ignore them and enjoy your day. Life is way too short to be concerned about what others think, unless they happen to say something nice.
Our society is so into shaming others and being prudish about our bodies, it's quite pathetic and sad. I wish that our society was kinder to each other but unfortunately it isn't. Thankfully the majority of people are still kind and respectful and will mind their own business. So just be you and have fun in your thong! As the saying goes… “Sun's out, buns out!”
-Mikey
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