Thong bikinis in public swimming pools

I don’t see why it’s unhygienic. It’s just an area of skin. Wouldn’t bother me. I probably wouldn’t even notice. I’d be too busy swimming.

I'm not bothered about them from a hygiene point of view but I do feel like they are a very sexualised item of swimwear and I'd rather not have someone's uncovered arse cheeks in my face when I'm queueing for the water slide!

I would not feel uncomfortable but they look awful usually. Having said that looking awful is not confined to this. We don't do style in the UK on the whole.

I couldn't wear one if I was actually planning on swimming properly. Doing breast stroke the way my legs move I'd be flashing everything under the water in a thong. Different if you're lying on the beach and sunbathing.

"Fortunately they were pretty disgusted" .
Why is it "fortunate" that the men were disgusted??

Lol. Those things are very high cut everywhere.

I don't get them myself. Can you imagine a man wearing one 😂

My arse is under the water 99% of the time I am at the public pool, as are everyone else’s. I don’t give a monkeys about the size of their swimsuit. I am bothered by hairy armpits and spotty backs though.

It's very awkward queuing on stairs to go down a flume where there's a thong bum right in front of you. I do admire the confidence of girls and women who wear them.

Yeah they’re pretty revealing and let’s face it, just encourages men to ogle. But they’re pretty common place these days so I wouldn’t be shocked if I saw it!

This.

if it were for comfort or practicality men would be doing it.

and judging by the threads in her when partners visit France and needs to comply with the French speedo pool rules, the vast majority of people don’t think speedo’s are appropriate, let along a thong or borat style costume.

the last couple of holidays I’ve been on thong and t-back bikinis have been banned from hotel pool areas.

there’s been threads as well about teen DD’s wearing thong bikinis on family holidays, and the general consensus is it’s not appropriate to be wearing around grandad and older family members.

but somehow it’s ok down a local council pool?

This just isn’t the case though is it. Would you be happy if a man or woman walked into the public baths completely naked? Or wearing a Bianca censori-esk see-through number?

I'm not a prude, not do I care what other people wear, and I don't think it is any more or less unhygenic.
BUT I can't for the life of me understand why anyone would want to get their butt out in a indoor municiple pool, I see it all tge time in our local pool and I can't work it out. I find it an odd choice of clothing, similar to when I saw a man today at the bus stop in the village with his shirt off. Or if I saw a man at the pool in a borat mankini 😂It completely befuzzles me. I just assume that there is some fashion trend that I am not party to, I am either too old or not cool enough to get it.

It’s the influence of porn. It gets everywhere.

Two thong girls in the plastic seats in holiday location A&E …. Could only think how much I would not want my anal area touching the i A&E seats or knowing what anal seepage they were depositing for the next customer.

I did a 10k cross country run behind a man wearing the Borat costume, in March. It was quite a sight. He was raising money for men's mental health. I donated.

When i was in on a eurocamp holiday last year some girls were wearing them. I'm all for body positivity but found it a bit awkward on the steps up to the waterslide where you'd have someone's full arse right in front of you.

I just got my my wax done and very tempted to go and buy a thong bikini just to annoy people like you.

I don't see anywring thong here.

Meh, don't really see the issue. Wouldn't wear one myself, my bum is definitely not up to it, but what others wear is up to them.

There's nothing unhygienic about them compared with regular swimsuits.

our local public pools have 'dress codes' - ie no thongs or budgie smugglers. Along with no photos and no bombing.