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Wearing clothing does not equal a problem with nudity. What an absolutely over-simplified, over generalised and narrow view.
Unless it's a wetsuit or drysuit being worn to stay warm in the pool or on the beach, I can't see any other reason you'd wear clothes.
And those saying it's all about rules and we should be free to wear what we want, all the "you look a pedo in Speedos" comments suggest that there may be unwritten social rules in our society too...
Except if you turn up to a French pool, all the men will be wearing them because if they aren’t, they don’t get let in. So it’s not at all like having a kick about with your mates and one turns up wearing team kit, shin pads and football boots.
It is, just means the French are lunatics.
So it’s not at all like having a kick about with your mates and one turns up wearing team kit, shin pads and football boots.
It's more like you're going for a bike ride in Swinley and someone turns up in a team top.
Oh....
Hang on a mo...
The hygiene reason is rubbish, you could easily have your trunks on all day before going swimming.
Or... we can just adopt the crazy live and let live attitude where people can feel comfortable clothed as they like.
Where we start to judge what others should be comfortable doing and then try and enforce it, is a bit of a slippery slope. No one should be judging anyone else based on how they are dressed or how modest they want to be or even if they are naked.
Really, it's kinda annoying if you forget and don't have them ... but otherwise it's like ageing about driving on the wrong side of the road.
I think the reason is mostly just because swimming trunks are for swimming and beach trunks are for beaches.
I've heard loads of explanations - non seem to really hold water (oops) ... but its the rule for municipal pools throughout France and probably pre-dates beach type shorts to when shorts were cut-off jeans or similar.
It may help to explain the French obsession with correct clothing if I tell you that once, when I lived in Paris and it snowed, I overheard an elderly lady saying to her friend in shocked tones: “…and do you know, people are even walking around the streets in sports attire!”
I remember being laughed at in Norway for wearing English business shoes in Winter.... or wearing a suit to work.... that old lady could have been my French teacher when I lived there. 😀 (Though she was an old dear really)
No one should be judging anyone else based on how they are dressed or how modest they want to be or even if they are naked.
A laudable sentiment, but if the 70 year old convicted peadophile who lives 3 houses down from me started walking past my 14 year old daughters bedroom window, bollock naked, I'd be judging him for sure.
Context is everything.
^^What if he was wearing Speedos?
He's not French......and they wouldn't really go with his electronic tag.
What a ridiculous. idiotic position to take.
I take another option, I choose to wear the long Speedos.
Good for you, but mine is not a position, just a suggestion to resolve the "issue" (which I don't see as an issue).
Nothing ridiculous or idiotic in suggesting a simple solution that resolves the issue brilliantly, gives me more space in France and highlights that the French won't miss him, at least collectively. These are just facts actually. A pretty Cartesian approach, don't you think ? (although not quite as pragmatic as the long Speedos approach).
I’m talking about a normal, everyday context Perchy!
Speedos were banned at the water park we used to go to in the USA. Very odd as a lot of the women were wearing far more revealing items
It starts with budgies and ends like this.
when i was a teenager i wore speedos below swimming shorts to try and hide my pleasure at seeing all those lovely ladies !
So frenchies wear underpants on the beach to suppress their permanent arousal. If thats not pervy I dont know what is. Whatever happened to sang froid?
No one should be judging anyone else based on how they are dressed
Who is judging you? It is just a dress code for swimming, just as it is a dress code to wear a top in many pubs, no trainers in a club and so on. You don't have to go swimming in France (in fact I have never been swimming in France and never plan to)