What is your favorite speedo/Go-to suit?

[Dooley67]

My go to suits are Turbos or Sportis because of how they fit, how they make me feel, and how great they are in the water. I've worn them on the beach and for swimming laps at the pool.

D67

[SwimTeamSpeedo]

Yes, Sebbie, i do shadow my suit tastes in most of my characters. Life often imitates art, or the other way. I have also put some in board shorts and jammers, however. In my current story Alex and Patrick even tried thongs, which I never wear.

STS

[sebbie]

Maybe you are acting out some ideas you secretly would like to try, but for whatever reason you don't quite dare!

[SwimTeamSpeedo]

No, not really.

[sebbie]

You managed to raise a most interesting question, the question being what guys can be comfortable wearing a thong and what guys cannot.
I do not shop the women’s underwear section in stores, but I have notices that thongs for women are very common, even among mass market merchandisers such as Walmart and Target. Thong underwear for men has been getting more and more difficult to find at the bricks-and-mortar retailers. This may very well reflect decreased popularity of the design, which seemed to hit a peak in the US in about 1990. It used to be, for example, that Jockey USA marketed several different designs for men and these were easily found in the stores, but all of those have disappeared in recent years. Kmart carries cotton thongs for men under the Joe Boxer label, even as competing mass marketers Target and Walmart have abandoned the style for men entirely.

The swimsuit issue is even more interesting. Women seem to have moved away from thongs at least at mass-market places, but instead seem to be buying ever tinier and skimpier bikini brief suits, as these seem to be pretty much everywhere in the stores, and many of these are made of very little cloth for sure. Skimpier appears to be better in the Female swimwear world. I think many women buy these suits to provide incentive to get in shape and lose some weight. If this doesn’t happen, the suit never comes out of the drawer. My casual observation is that there are many more tiny suits hanging on racks in stores than there are women wandering around the store of a size and shape looking to wear them, so why do the merchants stock so many of these? An interesting question!

Men’s thongs as swimwear are even more interesting. For a brief period in the early 1990s, I could wander right into the store that is now Macys and buy a men’s swim thong off the rack! They were so small the sales clerks seemed nearly embarrassed selling them. I went right ahead, anyway. What is interesting to me is why men were ok with this in the early 1990s but not today?

If this discussion was about women’s swim thongs and the women who wear them, we would not be discussing the sexual orientation of the women involved. That in itself is interesting. Why is that?

So, STS puts his two gay male characters in his story each in swim thongs, and to a certain degree teasing each other with their suits, when they are together in private. But wearing these suits at a pool or beach needs to be considered very carefully, if at all. Part of this is modesty, but part of this is simply as the thong wearing labeling them as gay if they show up at an event together both wearing thongs. For men in a male-female relationship, a thong for the guy is ok but only if the wife or GF approves, and the situation is not too public, say a cruise on a small boat!

So, swim briefs have the same problem, to to a lesser degree. A guy wearing a brief with his lady is fine. Two guys both wearing a swim brief raises questions about sexuality. Could these guys be gay or are they simply athletic swimmers. Who knows? There are no labels. People just assume what they want to assume based on a lifetime of accumulating values. Competitive male swimmers have no problem (mostly no problem) wearing swim briefs with others. It’s just part of the sport. This is generally not the same for the casual beach goer or swimmer. People are going to draw CONCLUSIONS about my sexuality right or wrong, based on what I am wearing. Best not to press the envelope.

Can or will this all change? Is a nation that now accepts gay marriage going to continue to make core assumptions about the sexuality of a person basis on what the person wears at the pool or beach? That is an interesting question. Might we be moving into a world in which a guy’s sexuality is not inferred by his choice of swimwear? Will any of the straight male characters in any of STS’s stories ever show up in public wearing a thong regardless of sexual orientation? Stay tuned! I am curious as to how STS copes with this swimwear culture.

[Swimmer]

Hands down, my Turbo suits for laps and the boat/beach. Low ride, smaller sides, great fit and material. Practical and hot!

Although I did just buy three suits from Amazon --made by Jack Smith Designs --great cut, fit, material. Wore it this weekend. Pink!

[Hotbunz1969]

Personally I don't own that may pairs of what most of you guys on here would call, 'regular' style speedos.
Yes, I'm a HUGE fan of them, and certainly enjoy being updated on the new styles available and stories connected to speedos, hence my membership of this board!!!, but when permissible I much prefer to wear the slightly more daring styles, namely thongs and G's.

That said, circumstances do not always allow for my style choice, so, as I would never dream of swimming in shorts, over the years I have tried out MANY different styles and makes of speedo/full backed suit.

For circumstances where 'full backed' swimwear is the only option, among others I've owned and worn everything from Aussiebums 1.5 inch low rise trunks in white with the liner removed to Kinikis, 'Andre' and 'Cuba' styles, again, both in white and both with liners removed, but I think the most daring, and one of only a few I still own and wear is Koalas black 'Orgasm Bikini'

So, to answer the threads question........When my G-string, Thong, Slingshot or One-Sided swimwear is not appropriate I'd have to say my "GO TO SWIMSUIT" has to be the "Brasil Slip" from "Alters Galaxy Collection"

It's sold as underwear/swimwear but I can assure you 110% it looks, feels and fits as perfectly as any speedo style swimwear should. Though it has no drawstring I've not experienced any 'falling out' issues when either swimming or diving, it fits that well.
It's low(ish) rise front panel offers good coverage and the cut away rear doesn't creep into your tush. Made from a good quality, black microfibre material with leather look finish this suit is in no way sheer, dry or wet. However, with the material used, along with the fact it's an unlined and slightly 'fitted' pouch this suit dose create a certain amount of outline and definition, (not to everyone's tastes I know) not enough in my opinion to be OTT but let's just say it's enough to let everyone know your a guy and what your about!


Without doubt, a great "GO TO" suit in my opinion.