To think bums should be covered in a public pool?

We are allowed to think they look horrendous on people male or female, they remind me of baboons. This is not personal to you. I think thongs are regressive as only women wear them, and it looks like they are trying to flog their wares rather than simply going for a swim like everyone else.

I associate them with seedy pornography and prostitution. Attention seeking and inappropriate around children.

You think women's bums look like horses bums?
Okay

I think thong swimwear in any public area is indecent. Bottoms are a private part. I feel the same way about topless sunbathing.

Exactly

A thong swimsuit is no less hygienic than standard swimwear.

Now swim nappies, they're unhygienic.

@DeffoNeedANameChange “How naked is too naked?” is a question that frequently arises as temperatures soar. Naked yoga was seen to be the latest trend at Glastonbury festival this year and research conducted by the British Naturism organisation suggests that more Britons are going naked than ever before. But what are the legal boundaries when it comes to public nudity?

The law -
Firstly, it is not an offence to be naked in public in England and Wales. However, it can become an offence if it can be proven that the naked individual caused harassment, alarm or distress to another person. In the absence of any sexual context and intention to cause alarm and distress – being naked in public is within the law.

https://www.kingsleynapley.co.uk/insights/blogs/criminal-law-blog/public-nudity-staying-within-the-law

If you don't like what someone is wearing, don't look. You're at the pool, concentrate on yourself/your DC and stop paying so much attention to what other people are doing.

On a related note, reach your DC that it's rude to comment on other people's bodies/clothing. I've raised four DC, including two with zero filter, and they have never commented on how other people look from around the age of 2-3 because it was instilled in them from the first instance that it's not polite to do so.

Just been to centre parcs, there was a girl wearing one having a piggy back, while swimming round the rapids. My teenage son nearly got flung face first into her backside, so I just shouted 'careful of that lady's big arse' and she soon moved. Why would anyone want a birds eye view of her arse, mind boggling!

Centre parcs surely isn't the place for thongs, it's full of little kids.

I'm pretty sure those who would rather not see bare arses would say the same if men were also wearing thongs at leisure centres, or indeed if it were a uniquely male fashion instead of uniquely female.

"Being naked in public" and "indecent exposure" are two different things.

Being naked in public is generally not an offence, even in England and Wales - it only becomes an offense if it can be proved that the person stripped off with the intention to upset and shock. The complainant has to prove this.

Whilst I don't really care what people wear, our nearest pool has a shallow bit for kids to play in and you walk through to go to the deeper bit. The thong wearers end up with their bare arses in the kids faces - difficult to explain, but it's grim.
Also can't understand how they are comfier.

This doesn’t bother me.

I do hate men with hairy builders bums because their trunks are 4 sizes too small though

@Noranydroptodrink The anal sphincter generally does a good job at keeping everything inside until relaxed at an individual's will.

Unless you believe most people in a public swimming pool are faecally incontinent.

So someone who has accquired toilet training and reasonable personal hygeine skills shouldn't have anything to fear from some fabric.

Depends on the bum, I suppose…
Not a look I like, but I hate the judgement that a thong on a bum more aesthetically pleasing to you,is more acceptable to see than a less attractive (in your eyes) bum.

I have unfortunately copped an unexpected eyeful of undercarriage due to a thong bikini with an inadequate gusset and an unfortunately positioned sunbed.

People saying normal pants are uncomfortable round the legs, are you buying the right size? It’s not easy to believe that a string rubbing between your buttocks all day is less uncomfortable than the non restrictive leg holes of a high leg short style.

I depends on the situation doesn’t it? So the line is whatever is permissible by law in the given situation. In a swimming context, a bottom is probably acceptable to most (I note some posters saying thongs are banned in their local pool). At a nudist beach any part of the body is acceptable. On the street, at work, well there are different rules. I don’t make the rules, but within the confines of the rules I’m not prepared to make judgments about other people’s bodies and their clothing choices. It’s so nasty and unnecessary. Some of the comments on here…horrible

WC is completely irrelevant. I don’t know when you’ve invoked his horrific spectre. He committed a crime, well numerous crimes.

That's a bit of a fucking leap, isn't it? From a thing bikini to murderer. Who knew swimwear was a gateway to rampant criminality!?

Give your head a wobble.

@shuggles It is often women that police other women.

So religious morality police in Iran include women to police women's clothing.
Female genital mutilation is carried out by women.

You see here on mumsnet women policing other women's choices and decisions, opinions all the time.

Luckily women are not a homogenous group so there are plenty of other women that fight back against this.

I always really struggle to stop thinking about how many ballbags and arseholes I'm essentially bathing with. I don't care if someone's arse is out, it's all the genitals having a wash in the water that gets me 🤣🤣

We went to a popular spa last year, in the hamam there was a couple and the girl had a bikini thong on. It ramped up as her and her bloke were in the experience shower and were indulging in a a VERY pda (hands on her bare bum.) The shower is in the middle of the room, so everyone had a ringside seat, and didn't know where to look!!! I was worried the bloke would have his own 'experience '

Another bloke was filming on his phone in the hamam which struck me as very intrusive and creepy.

I did complain to the front desk, and asked why are phones allowed in the spa?

Why on why can't people behave in a considerate way?

@Havanananana that sounds perfectly hygienic to me — unfortunately totally different to my experience of spas in the UK

I don't really care about seeing butt cheeks, but the flossing aspect really puts me off them. When I see someone in that type of swimsuit all I see is someone voluntarily walking around with a bit of string rubbing up and down against their arsehole, and the thought is just yuk... a mixture of it seeming really unhygienic (even if someone's arsehole starts off clean at the start of the day, it won't necessarily stay that way) and thinking it would be a horrible feeling. Either way it's nothing to do with appearance, but when I see them I cringe.

So where do you draw your line? Are you comfortable with adults being fully naked in public? Bearing in mind that indecent exposure is currently a criminal offence (and with good cause in my opinion- don't forget that Wayne Couzens had a history of indecent exposure).

I feel quite strongly that other people's decisions about what parts of their body they do/don't choose to reveal isn't just their business.

Maybe she couldn’t find her appropriate costume and her kid desperately wanted to swim she had no choice

It looks bloody awful even on beautiful people

I agree OP. I see them now and then at my David Lloyd pool. OK, people are entitled to wear them, but I always think they’re exhibitionists. I can’t for a moment imagine that they’re more comfortable than any standard swimsuit or bikini.