Husband wearing thongs

[amyt88]

First of all, I've got no issue with my husband wearing thongs. He's not stealing my underwear or wanting to dress like a woman, he's got thongs designed specifically for men with a pouch at the front - big brands like Diesel and Emporio Armani have made them for a while. They're not lacy or frilly and they look masculine.

The problem is that we've got in-laws coming to stay with us for 3 months (their house had heavy flood damage caused by a leak, and rather than their house insurance putting them up in a hotel for 3 months, we offered to host them as we've got the space).

Our laundry gets hung in the study (which we don't use) as it's a large spacious room with direct sunlight, but it has no door and our in-laws will walk past it to get to their bedroom. There's no other space to hang laundry really, the study is the best place.

I've asked my husband if he can wear boxers/briefs temporarily as it could be embarrassing to see all his thongs up drying when we have guests staying, but he doesn't see the big deal and is like, "It's just underwear, I don't care if they find out I wear thongs?"

Would you be comfortable with this? I honestly don't mind him wearing thongs but wouldn't want him to be teased over it if in-laws found out. I'm more trying to protect him really, but he doesn't see the big deal and doesn't care if they find out.

😂

They're his parents so it's between him and them (if it's a problem at all) so I don't know why you're even getting involved.

If they’re anything like my family they would rib him (rightly so) for wearing budgie smugglers and that would be it. Why is everyone always tip toeing around their families on here?

If he's not bothered then you shouldn't be either. The fact you are means you probably do have a problem with it. I would too to be fair. It sounds like 1990s stringfellow

I would be highly embarrassed and hiding them. 😳

I wonder if the OP will return.

If he’s not bothered about it then I don’t see why you are. It’s just some pants, not a double ended dildo.

No, long johns!!

shove them on a radiator in your bedroom

I hope he has a magnificent arse, otherwise hahaha, what a thought!

It's pants in the style of a double-ended dildo though, to be fair 🫣

My MIL helpfully hung out my washing when she was babysitting once. She was genuinely wanting to help, but I was very upset when I realised exactly which underwear she'd handled! But she never said anything, if she had a view, and it was nice having the help. They're adults, he's their son, I'm sure they don't care what kind of underwear he wears

The OP already said there’s no door. Pretty basic stuff

I’ve just conjured the most terrible mental image of my DP’s hairy arse cheeks in a thong.

More to the point, where do the BALLS go?! 😟

This ^ my view as well.
if it’s his parents I would put his things on the most visible place for drying, if tts my mum I would hide all thongs over the house as she would pester me about them not him.

Get a small rack and stick them in your bedroom, this is surely not beyond your imagination to solve if you don't want them seen. Although why you're bothered about what your DH parents think about his underwear is baffling, surely this is a him problem, and it doesn't sound like he's got one.

Why would you feel implicated, do you feel like you're in control of your husband's choice of undercrackers? Also if you avail yourself of free emergency accommodation in someone's home you're grateful. You don't form opinions on their pants.

Are thong-trolls the new poop-trolls or something? This is so daft it can't possibly be real.

They're his parents, they're his pants. If he's not embarrassed, it's not for you to be either.

My mother is horrified that I dry my washable sanitary pads on the line in the back garden. I have repeatedly assured her that my elderly neighbour on one side, and the couple on the other side will all already know that women menstruate 😏

It's not even just a thong troll, though is it? It's some kink involving parental humiliation and thong display. Which, all in all, is pretty niche.

I'd hang them from the chandeliers, OP, like gaily-coloured thong bunting.

First of all, I've got no issue with my husband wearing thongs

it could be embarrassing to see all his thongs up drying when we have guests staying, but he doesn't see the big deal and is like, "It's just underwear, I don't care if they find out I wear thongs?"

he doesn't see the big deal and doesn't care if they find out.

Well clearly you do have an issue - and if your family are childish enough to take the piss out of someone on their underwear choice, I dont think the issue is with your husband. I'd laugh at you if I was him and be stunned if I thought you were serious!!!

Two cheeks of the same arse.

Before I opened this thread, I was really hoping it would be about flip flops.

If the thongs weren't a thing to focus on would you be completely comfortable with the in-laws coming to stay. Sometimes our brains have to focus on something when something is niggling?

He likes them, just hang them to dry in your bedroom if you want them out of sight? It's not as if they take a lot of room up.

So you say your study has no door and your in-laws would have to walk past it (so presumably it’s some kind of alcove)? Past it, not through it? Are you expecting them to peer into it each time to inspect your laundry? And to look at it closely enough to see whose underwear is whose?

If the room is that spacious, surely you don’t need to put the laundry right in the doorway - and you don’t have to put the underwear at the front. You presumably don’t do a separate wash purely for pants either. Just put them at the back of the clothes horse and bigger items at the front. Unless your in-laws are actively taking the time to stop and examine your laundry, they won’t see the thongs.

This is what i like to call a "non-problem" 🙄