If you are not my father figure, feel free. If you are my father figure, feel free when my glasses are off.

To be fair, I get uncomfortable when father figures wear tank tops and shorts. Be clothed, my parental units!

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Personally, as someone who grew up spending summers with family in Europe, I'm used to seeing all sorts of men in speedos. So, although I might cringe from time to time, I'm used to just looking elsewhere and minding my own business. You can enjoy the beach despite the hairy, pot-bellied dude in a speedo nearby.

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One of my instructors wears a pink speedo when diving. I can see the benefit of it because many guys I know prefer to dive with nothing on underneath so it is a compromise probably. I had a picture of him, among several others, from a dive trip. People at the dive shop, and those who hang around do talk about the infamous pink speedo but not in a malicious way. Well after putting everything on facebook some fellow students decided to grab the picture and pass it around to make fun of him. So yah, I have issues with people who have issues with speedos. The fact that people think they have a right to mock someone for what they are wearing, especially when it is in terms of convenience, really bothers me. Of course it doesn't help that he found out - makes me feel even worse about the situation.

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Fuzzy, big blokes should be entitled to the same level of beachside acceptance as (most of) us jezzies would want for all jezziekind.

That said, budgie smugglers are sportwear, IMHO. It does seem odd for people to wear them outside of doing laps or whatever. But each to their own.

/overlong rant

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That said, when going to take a stressful test, BF said to me, "Picture me in a hot pink speedo, you'll feel better." I did. I really did. For a multitude of reasons, but better none the less.

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But then I met a man who rocks a classic black Speedo when he swims, and fuck me, he's like the most beautiful dolphin in 'em. He's gorgeously unself-conscious. But then he is Swedish, and we all know Swedes are just weird that way. So I'm willing to be a little more open-minded in future, in the hopes that many more gentlemen who look dashing in teeny-tiny bathing suits pass my way. Well, a person can dream, right?

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