If you’re at a pool/resort, do you put on shorts to walk around or to go to the bar? Or do you remain only in your thong?
This seems to be the only thing I’m unsure of/struggled with the most for some odd reason.
It seems like it takes quite a bit of extra confidence than just sun tanning with my face down.
What about for going to the toilet/washroom?
Hm. That’s an interesting question.
My sense is that you should probably cover up to go to the bar, especially if you plan on sitting down. There are people who would be uncomfortable or unhygenic if you remained in your thong.
Going to the toilet/washroom, I think you don’t need to cover up, as long as it is connected to the pool area.
Yeah definitely if I was going to sit down. But in my mind that’s not how it would go. I’d just be going to get a drink then back to my beach chair with my towel already on my beach chair.
For cleanliness, I definitely prefer to have something under me. My skin is also very sensitive so I would never sit on something without a towel (edge of a pool might be an exception). But if I was going to sit at a beach bar I don’t think I would wear shorts preferably. I’d prefer to bring a clean towel and sit on that.
I recently saw a woman wearing a swim thong sitting on a chair at a bar on a beach. That surprised me. It’s perhaps a bit unclean. She wasn’t sitting on a towel.
I typical tie a towel around my waist like a sarong and I allow one leg through the slit. I’m (with humility) quite muscular so my physique allows me to get away with more feminine type cover up solutions.
I walked around once with a white thong underneath crochet short shorts that were clearly see through but nobody has ever said anything or mocked me (not that I would care).
Carrying yourself with calm confidence is the secret sauce to wearing what you want. I think when other males have seen me, they initially learn that thongs are a thing for dudes or they wished they had the confidence to wear such a daring suit. Read the room and if you can get away with just rocking the thong, go that route. I’ve walked an entire resort in just a thong because I was heading to the beach or pool and my thong happens to be a swimsuit. Cover it up if you feel like it with something that’s intentional that you’re covering your thong out of respect for your surroundings. But once at the pool, enjoy yourself. People really don’t care.
I consider the entire poolside area for walking around thong only. If I have to leave the area, then I cover up.
I use a half pareo tied around the hips. That provides enough cover for g-string wearers. Also proper coverage while sitting (basic nudist etiquette). I have them 12” and 18” wide but find that 12” is just too short for anything but walking around. Also, fabric choice determines degree of translucency – you can go from totally opaque or almost completely see-thru depending on how much you want to reveal.
Agree. And at the beach, up to the showers as well. I avoid anything that might be construed as “parading” around. I don’t want to be that guy who causes a complaint that then causes “the management” to crack down on everyone, it’s not worth it.
I think it depends on the specific pool/resort/etc. I understand the sitting down thing and if I were to do that I’d throw on whatever coverup I used to get from the room to the pool. But for me it’s usually a matter of going to the bar, getting a drink and returning to the pool or beach. In that case I don’t put on a coverup. Same with going to the restroom unless for some reason it involved going through a lobby or something like that. That being said, if at a more adult oriented place, my coverup usually consists of fairly see-thru shorts (the split side runner shorts from Skinz). If I need a bit more modesty I usually wear some squarecut shorts as a coverup (in some cases I have ones that match to certain thongs or gstrings).
I completely agree about not being seen as “parading around”. I don’t think that would/should be anyone’s intention. But there could be a fine line between parading around, being comfortable with your swimwear choice and not be seen as perhaps “too timid”. People might see it as odd if a guy is wearing a thong swimsuit and covers up anytime he goes anywhere.
The same probably applies to swim briefs?
You spotted the reason I put “parading” in quotes. 
There’s a line between “parading around” and “going about your business,” but to me it’s gray and fuzzy, not bright and clear. Walking to and from the water is obviously fine. It took me a 1-2 summers to decide that the outdoor showers are ok, too; all the women are wearing thongs there, so me too. The rest room, I pull on my board shorts, it feels too “indoors”. I was going to run the experiment at the Herring Cove food shack (women in thongs there, too), but for some reason it was closed last summer.
I like men’s split side shorts with about a 1 inch inseam. I have purchased several from Amazon. Some are a satin type, others mesh.
I pretty much only wear thongs/bikinis to the beach. The whole beach is fair game. If I leave, I either wear jeans over it or a towel at the waist. I havent worn a pair of shorts to the beach in over 10 years as either swimwear or outerwear.
Depending on the beach, sometimes I leave with no coverup. Just a thong and tee shirt. At least until i am dry.
@AZThonger same for me. Walking around I’ll just wear my suit. If I’m going to sit down at the bar I have a pairs of split shorts similar to the Skinzwear shorts and certainly cover up if I have to go back inside a resort or other building.
On holidays we always go to the smaller apartment complexes. There I always walk around in just my thong when walking from the apartment to the pool and vice versa. And, of course, when I am in and around the pool and pool bar area.
When it comes to cover ups, I pretty much do what it seems the ladies typically do. Whether on a cruise ship, or at a resort, if I’m by the beach or near the pools no cover up.
On a cruise ship, walking anywhere around the pool deck, whether to the restroom, bar or even the places out by the pool to get a snack, I just wear my swimsuit. I’ve often sat on a sttol at the bar with my bare ass without thinking about it. I see the ladies do it all the time and no one has ever mentioned it. I frequently get positive comments from the ladies while at the bar getting drinks. I even got positive comments from guys on our recent trans-atlantic cruise. I do put on a cover up if going indoors on the ship or if sitting down at one of the places to eat.
At resorts, it’s pretty much the same, I only put on a cover up to go indoors to the front desk, or if the resort is a single building type place. Many of the resorts we stay at are our Marriott Vacation Club properties, we frequent St Kitts, Marco Island and Palm Beach Shores. At these resorts the rooms are in smaller buildings and while I usually am wearing shorts on the way to the pool or beach in the morning, I rarely cover up after that.
I figure I’m wearing a swimsuit, and if I’m in an area where others expect to see a swimsuit, then why cover up?? The places I put on a cover up, are also the same areas where I feel it is prudent to put on a shirt.
For years we spent a week to ten days at Club Orient on the Caribbean island of St. Martin. Although it was a nude resort on a nude beach, and we were naked most of the time, there was also an adjacent “textile” beach. This is were we’d walk every day for lunch. For this my wife would wear a pareo that draped from her hips to mid-thigh. I would wear a g-string. We’d enjoy the lunch at one of the low rent beachside restaurants. Among tourists from other parts of the island as well as “boat people” off the cruise ships there for the day. Perfect Caribbean beach atmosphere. On our way back to the nude beach we’d stop at the various shops. Not parading around but going about normal activities. I didn’t notice anyone paying undue attention, but then we didn’t care, either. Complete freedom.
I actually traveled there last year, and this was ultimately what got be curious. There are a lot of restaurants lining the beach, but also little boutiques that sold minimal swimwear (thongs and g-strings). For those kind of places, I feel like it would be fine to order a drink at the bar in a thong; it’s like right on the beach, and there are vendors literally selling thongs like 20 feet away. I probably would cover up if I sat down and ordered food though, but if you are in and out grabbing a drink or an appetizer to take to the beach, or even using the bathroom, my guess would be a thong is fine.
Well, Boss - that’s pretty much the way I remember it. Every thonger in the western hemisphere should visit Orient Beach. I have walked through the commercial part of Orient Village in a very brief string bikini with no problem at all but not a thong. With any luck we’re planning a return next fall - early November.
The coverup I have are either mesh, shear or like fishnet. The result is that you will see my thong underneath. I’ve had many people tell me that the coverups I wear are sexy and fun. I use them primarily to walk from the car to the beach or from my resort room to the pool.
I haven’t gotten brave enough to walk around in just my thong like to the bar and such although it might be different if I had another thonger with me. Needless To say I’ll slip on a pair of shorts to go the bar. I need some help boosting my confidence.