At the Swimming Club where I trained as a teenager, I had a good friend called Ralph. He was a superb athlete, a typical “swimmers” build with very fair hair and best in our age group at 100 and 200 butterfly. We had swum together for some years. Although most of us wore Speedos for training and competitions, Ralph had a black, very brief and low cut, slip that he must have had from about the age of eleven. As time passed, Ralph grew and consequently the black slip got “smaller” and tighter. We were probably fifteen when eventually our coach “exploded” and banned Ralph from the pool and the club until he got some “proper” swimming trunks that did not expose his pubic hair. The next week, Ralph returned, this time wearing standard black Speedos. However, Ralph did still occasionally wear his tiny slip briefs when we played around at the lido.
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