Yes, many of the Japanese guys have the small butts and packages that fit these suits perfectly. I alse sense that the Japanese male culture is less sensitive to categorizing guys as being either A. straight or B. gay based on the style they are wearing and the size of their swimsuits. If a caucasian guy in the US were to wear one of the suits like this even if he had the perfect body for it he would immediately be labeled by most as gay. In Japan and in many other cultures there appears to be less if any of this labeling as to sexual orientation going on based only on what a guy has chosen as swimwear. In short, it would be refreshing to live in a culture that did not attempt to size up a person's sexual orientation based on what he chooses as swimwear. How we got to this point in the US I dont know. looking at the peroid of time before about 1990, we didn't seem to have this hangup, at least not so much. Associating a particular style of swimwear with a particular sexual orientation seems to have been something that has developed in the US over the last 20 years or so. I watch movies from the 50s and 60s with scenes at the pool or beach and guys in them are wearing that would be labeled as "gay" based on current unwritten standards.
Sebbie
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