Men in Speedos
Karin Tanabe, a contributor to Huffington Post, has written a great article on what I have been saying for years. Yes, the topic of why underwear for men in America is so boring and unsexy while women’s lingerie is so cute. No wonder then that so many men wear feminine lingerie rather than go buy dull, cotton boxers or boxer briefs (the people in this photo are at a lingerie party; I think they don’t dress like this every day).
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Yes we did see David Beckham in a brief and Justin Timberlake in a Speedo, but as Karin says, “Now if you wear a Speedo it means one of four things: you are a competitive swimmer, a card-carrying member of the EU, over sixty and unaware of the changing times, or same-sex oriented.” I think she forgot to add strippers that bachelorettes like to invite.
Sad; isn’t it. I once made the mistake of wearing a Speedo thong in the US (now it is reserved for my overseas vacations) and just couldn’t stop wondering why everyone was looking at me. I am one ordinary looking guy and am not used to this kind of attention. No, it wasn’t due to my being some hot guy, but that American women like to see guys in nothing but those really long shorts, while they wear the tiniest possible bikinis, if at all they choose to keep it on.
She is absolutely wright when she says that “Today, a young man on an American beach in a Speedo has the shock value of a topless woman.”
Karin then talks about how the Americans call the French and Europeans metrosexual or feminine or not men enough and she reports that “While living in Paris I happened to see a lot of very heterosexual French policemen in their intimates — don’t ask about the circumstance — and the majority of them were wearing very tight, brightly colored briefs.” Not going to happen here because except for a few online stores, you cannot even buy such colorful underwear for men in America.
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