I would not wear a Speedo to the beach even if my head was on fire, and the only source of water was the ocean.
I have some respect for public decency, and I wouldn’t want to frighten the children.
If I were meant to wear a suit that tight, I would have been born a sausage…
Believe it or not, in Singapore I was forced to wear a speedo to go swimming in a club - boxer-shorts type swimming gear was judged unhygienic. Since then I switched to speedo altogether: less is better.
I’ll typically wear a Speedo under my baggy trunks. Much like GrandfatherTrout, this dates back to my days on summer swim team, when racing suits were all I owned.
And I’ve found through experience that a racing suit is better than baggy trunks for diving, as the tight Speedo doesn’t interfere with pulling on the tight rubber wet suit.
Waiting for your email address there, Opal.
Just send it as a link to the board, plnnr. I’m sure lots of us would like to help Opal with her judging. 
Opal’s email address can be found by clicking on the email icon immediately underneath my post.
Heh.
“All the boys wear the little speedos when they race,”
Mostly they are for speed…Im sure they show their short comings, if there are any.
Im a surfer & surfers don’t wear speedos. Most of them wear nothing at all under their wetsuit.
opalcat@opalcat.com is good for those with bad memories. Most people just use opalcat@fathom.org. they go to the same place, so use whichever you want.
Otto needs a spanking.
DocCathode, please be careful when dropping those ponds ok?
If I had the physique of an Olympic swimmer or a god-like male supermodel, then yes, I’d wear speedos and let the ladies get all the eye candy they wanted! Otherwise it’s baggy shorts for me. Honestly, I really think that only super-toned guys and scrawny kids can get away with this - any hint of flab and it ljust looks gross.
Sure, I’ve worn a Speedo to the beach with my wife. I’m sure in a different social situation I would be too shy to do so, like if I were going with a group of friends. I also used to wear one to the UCLA Recreation Center swimming pool, and a fair proportion of the guys there wore them too, since nearly everyone went there to do laps and then lie out on the grass. I haven’t been there since 1996, though, so I don’t know if that’s the case anymore.
I don’t know where this whole huge-baggy-long-shorts thing for guys has come from, but I think it’s got to go. It’s like the standard men’s swimsuit isn’t even a swimsuit anymore, but rather just “pants” that happen to dry fast and are slightly shorter than usual. On a hot day at the beach I want to be nude, dammit, or as nearly nude as I can reasonably get. I don’t want yards of material billowing around my legs.
Having said that, I think it would help if the clothes manufacturers would give us a little more choice in swimwear. It seems all you can get are speedos or even smaller suits on one side, or huge baggy ones that go past the knee on the other. I’d be happy to see some shorts in in-between lengths.
There are shorts of “normal swim trunks” length out there. I bought a pair for my husband at Wal-Mart earlier this summer. They’re about the length of boxer shorts.
Opal, if they’re boxer-style, even those tend to be irritatingly loose if what one wants to do is swim. When I wear the shorts-style trunks of any length, I can feel the drag from all that flappy fabric slowing me down, and it bugs the hell out of me.
Fortunately, I’ve been able to find what I want online - swim trunks that have the shape and, um, coverage, of everyday jockey shorts, and that still manage to minimize the visibility of one’s package. Took a bit of doing, but they look good on me, and (at least IMHO) don’t make me look like a show-off. After all, while I have a decent body, it’s not show-off-worthy, so to speak. I’ll try to remember to send you a pic.
After looking at you in the about me thread, I think the only fair thing to do would be to visit and let you get the full 3D affect. Now, how do I hide a 2000 mile trip to a babe from my wife and kids?
And those of you thinking you’d let a pretty woman stare at your crotch all day long, aren’t thinking of the old ladies and children (* my* children) present. And the size of a speedo.
Personally I don’t like speedo’s (wieny wraps)
I like nice colorful long bathing suits…leaves much up to the imagination.
The big advantage of banana hammocks, is that you can actually swim in them. The big disadavantage is mentioned by Isabelle, which combined with shrinkage …
The big disadvantage of those long bathing suits, aside from the fact that it is impossible to swim correctly in them, is the length of the legs. Some guys have short legs and look stupid. I have nice long legs with great thighs. And no calf muscles at all. My wife busts out laughing at any pair of shorts that approach my knees. I just look stupid in them.
Which may be delivered along with Speedo pics to me at mcmarbles@yahoo.com. Not my usual email address but considering the topic it seemed rather appropriate.
Go ahead and wear a nice long colorful bathing suit if you want.
Seriously though, you might want to consider wearing one over a bikini to experience for yourself with how it feels. Feel that material billowing about as you try to swim. Enjoy the feeling that it will fall off as you dive into a wave (To maximize this effect, omit your bikini bottom). Relish the feeling of the sopping wet material clinging to your legs as you exit the water.
I’d bet my bottom dollar there’s a lot of guys out there who are not in any way abnormal, or perverted, or exhibitionistic, but would gladly wear a Speedo for practical reasons if they could get away with it. But they’re afraid to for the reasons noted above by other posters. It’s amazing. They talk about the licentious times we live in, but it seems like decades ago people were a lot less frightened of seeing, on a man, the very slightest suggestion that he possessed male equipment. Lots of guys wore Speedos, or other types of brief swimming attire, and yes, you could probably see a bit of a bulge here and there. But it was the beach, dammit! Everyone was there to enjoy the sun and wear as little as possible. Men and women. 
No problem.
As some of you may recall, I’m manic depressive and have an anxiety disorder.
The past few months have been especially rough. This means I ended up eating more and doing less.
I don’t intend to follow an diet book or waste money on suppliments.
I’ll cut back on my food intake. Junkfood must be strictly rationed.(Cutting out junk food entirely leads to my waking up at 3 am and staring at the ceiling for hours as I fight my urges. Finally, I give in and run to the quikiemart. There, I spend a lagre quantity of money and consume an even larger amount of chocolate.)
I'm also trying to figure the best way to set up a stationary bike in front of the computer.There was an overweight middle aged man with an abnormal amount of back hair who lived down the street from me growing up. Every Saturday, without fail, he’d be outside cutting his grass, wearing nothing but a Speedo, with his guy hanging over. It was really, really weird, and pretty disgusting.
No. Not a chance.