Why Americans do not men wear speedo ?

[Torchwatch]

Guys are buying speedos, thongs and jockstraps in UK and America at the moment but you never see them wear them in public because they get put in bottom drawers and taken out only for dressing up.
Sports wear is actually better made and more imaginative than the stuff you can buy in sex shops.

For those of us that wear speedos in the pool and bikinis on the beach, taking them into the bedroom to play is no big deal, but for guys that only wear brief stuff in the bedroom actually wearing them in public might seem rather daring, perhaps indecent. What for a team swimmer is just training kit is for someone else their ultimate fantasy and they daren't wear it in public.

[SwimTeamSpeedo]

TW is on point, again. My swimsuit is mostly for my sport of choice. Yes, in the right setting it has a sexual context, but I know where that is. Btw, this American talk... the only place I got scolded for wearing a brief swimsuit was on a three month trip to Australia. In very clear terms I was told that only certain beaches allowed guys in Speedos. Interesting. I kept mine on.

[zungaboy]

Marketing and the media have an interesting way of working.
When they do their trap and we do “NOT fall into” we think how ridiculous was the trap and we looking down upon those that do fall into the trap.
But when we fall into the trap we don’t know and we think that we took free decisions. A bottle of Dasany to drink, or a coke (or Pepsi) we think it was a decision voluntarily and that is the trap ..

[Byron]

(see Red Bull posts in Off Topic Forum)

Btw you probably mean Dasani and as my grandmother used to live where it was bottled I can say that the tap water for the residents of the town is of excellent quality (in fact all in the UK exceeds the European Union's minimum purity standards).
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0304-04.htm

[Byron]

A plug for Pro Swimwear* as their website indicates thirteen brands available and which has acted as a sort of speedo wikipedia for me:
http://www.proswimwear.co.uk (and I rather like the black Arena City - and maybe a good sign also that plenty of jammers are there to be moved in the January sale)

*rather appropriately from Bridgwater as that's precisely what's been flooding them since Christmas in Somerset with too much rain