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.
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.
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
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.
Some of my wife’s friends know I wear thongs, as does the woman who waxes me every 5 weeks (in fact she complimented my tan lines last visit) but that is about it. My friends and family don’t know. Some of my friends I would be okay if they knew but it has never come up in comversation…
Pretty much all my friends and family know I wear them. An occassional “plumber’s butt” happens with whatever underwear you wear and having low cut jeans on, mine will eventually peek out. People at work know because we have a company fitness center. Got into wearing them because a female high school girl I liked said sexy underwear is always going to impress women. In college I was still hesitant and when I wore basic cotton briefs was told it was a turnoff. After that I started looking for thongs and slowly transitioned from colored mens bikinis and silk thongs. This was over 30 years ago when people still shopped at malls. Only a couple brands existed back then. Frederick’s of Hollywood was pretty much the only specialty store and grew my collection weekly. Now there are so many styles and brands and as the taboo idea lessens, I hope it becomes a non conversation. Not that I don’t think healthy open conversations should go away, just the idea that people are bad or weird for wearing them
My first pair were a gift from a college girlfriend. They were yellow and were a men’s version from Victoria Secret. I remember hiding them in an upper cabinet in my dorm room only to have them be “discovered” by my roommates girlfriend. Not sure what she was looking for when she found them but she and my roommate both thought they were cool.
