[Glenda]

60, straight

During the end of the summer in 1972 is when I first had an interest in Speedos after one of my all older female siblings put up in her room a poster of the Olympic champion Mark Spitz who was wearing some stars and stripes ones. Until then I didn't have any knowledge of them, just that they were similar to the style of the bottoms that my sisters wore. As a joke with my sisters, they suggested that I could try on one of their bikini bottoms to look like the Olympic champion. I did and liked it so much that I wore it to the beach with them.

My sisters would sunbathe at the nearby topless section of Zuma beach and that's where I first began wearing a dark blue Speedo with stars in the fall of 1972. They would work on getting their baby oil dark tans, whereas, I spent the entire day surfing. I usually was the only surfer who wore Speedos.

The next summer I completed the mile swim at a summer camp. The other boys made fun of my wearing of Speedos, but I was the tallest and the fastest swimmer in the camp. The row boat that we followed in the mile swim would stop and they would whack me in the head to slow me down in order for the other boys to catch up. I didn't like group swims after that and so during high school in 1973 I avoided my coaches pleas to join the swim team. I was tall and thin, but never have liked being around other boys due to they made bullying jokes of my severe gynecomastia (female breasts). Never could afford the breasts removal surgery and so I worked out hard to make my chest somewhat more masculine. Spent all my free time at home with my mom and sisters fixing plumbing, their cars, electrical, painting, etc. All of my siblings and their friends were girls and so I went with them to the beach to protect them from the male pervs when they sunbathe topless or nude. I normally always wore Speedos due to the law enforcement was much harsher against male nudity then female.

In 1975 I dated a girl who had a tiny string bikini that she no longer wore and so I asked her if I could wear the bottoms. She said that I stretched out the front and so she looked with me for a male version. Men's Speedos were getting skimpier too and so we found at Macy's one with 1/2" sides that had a male pouch. My girlfriend soon became my wife and although she ditched her bikinis after our daughters were in their teens, I have since gone to strings and microkini thongs.

Been married to my wife now for some 40 years after we dated in 1975. I am still the same thin weight as in high school, but have lost some of my over 6 foot height. I only wear microkinis now, the tiniest, the better.