Conversations with Friends and Acquaintances

I am friends with a couple who know I enjoy wearing thongs and g-strings at the beach. They always joke about me working from home wearing nothing but a thong, g-string, or maybe nothing. In return, I always try to convince them to try wearing a thong in private to gain confidence to maybe someday wear them in public. In any event, when we are out at a local bar or club, the subject usually comes up in some form or another. In other words, my friends live vicariously through me because I have confidence in wearing thongs in public.

The guy owns a gutter business, and he has signs on his trucks that say, “Our gutters are well hung!” Somehow, another discussion started between him and a different couple about thongs. I was not part of the conversation in any way and do not know how it started. He says he is going to order some thongs for the couple and is going to have “Our gutters are well hung!” put on the front. Then the laughter starts amongst everyone. The guy then asks the bartender if she would wear a thong, etc.

While all of this is going on, the wife of the couple says it actually makes sense for a guy to wear a thong because it holds everything in place. I was so excited to hear this comment and was about to jump into the conversation. Then I bit my tongue and stayed quiet. The last thing I needed was for everyone in the club to know I wear thongs. I know this sounds contradictory because I wear them in public, but I do not know a lot of the people that well and would prefer they not know.

In summary, I think more people would be more receptive to wearing or seeing thongs once they see the practicality in wearing them.

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For thousands of years the thong was designed and worn exclusively by men. Only in the last 50 years or so did the fashion take off with women. I love it when I see a male/female couple at the beach wearing a thong. Thongs should and I push for being more inclusive.

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I would tend to agree about thongs originally for men, I’ve seen comments that the Japanese Fundoshi clothing style may have been a predecessor to modern thong :man_shrugging:

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That’s how I got into thongs. When I was in Japan I was dared to wear a fundoshi at the pool when I was a kid and did. The girls snickered then it became a non-issue.

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That’s right, men were the first hundreds of years back in wearing thongs, women adopted it much later. I have always believed in a small conspiracy theory when those horrible board shorts came out to hide the man’s body and exalt the woman’s in addition to establishing tactics of shaming men with sexuality for using it. Now we are in the 21st century where equality is demanded and men have the right to wear thongs as women do without having any type of stigma or shame, because what is equal is not an advantage so we need to start with ourselves and stop feeling ashamed and restrained, life is short friends!

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