speedo philisophizing

[murray m]

Hi all,
I'm mostly a lurker with few posts, felt the need to post something as I was having a deep and meaningful think about the nature of body exposure while I was on the beach this morning.

I was swimming on a secluded section of beach north of my city, wearing red-white-blue brief cut Funky Trunks (aussie brand - available online & well worth a look), a good pair really, thick waistband elastic so held up well while I was working the waves! Felt really liberated wearing them, and realized I'm at a good point of my life where I'm not self-conscious about how my body looks in something brief-cut in public - you see I regularly swim laps in brief cut speedos, plain ones mind you, and while I can say it doesn't publicly turn me on wearing them (whew!) I do really feel like a man wearing them.

What have we come to where too many guys feel the need to cover up their insecurity about their own bodies by pretending that wearing a male "bhurka" (i.e. board shorts) is the epitomy of male masculine display, and that you have to perpetually hide your glory behind baggy clothing?

I'm not what I would consider an exhibitionist. I'll be frank, I loathe super-skimpy male swimwear (G-strings, "koala pouches" and those borat things are really pushing the limit for me), but I don't see what's wrong with tasteful brief cut swimwear, it's comfortable, practical and it looks damned good!

This board is refreshing in that it represents the "old guard" who say "**** you" to the fashion police (a proportion of whom I'm sure secretly like the look of speedos, but would never admit it to their friends). Keep it up guys!

Any other thoughts?

Anyway, took some selfies of myself at the beach, let's see if I can figure out doing attachments...