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Men, buy some goddamn decent swim shorts

Thanks to the swim shorts boom over the past 100 years all hell has broken loose a la plage. After a harrowing experience with a thong on the beach, Chris Sullivan has had enough... GQ Still mentally scarred since I sighted a man con thong – his privates covered by less cloth than an eyepatch, his pubic hair peeping out uninvited, and buttocks separated by a piece of string – I now believe that, for the good of the nation’s mental health, a measure of decorum has to be applied on the beach and men in such heinous displays of grossness banned. As...

An OUTfair.com Man’s Guide to Swimwear

For most of human history, recreational swimming was done naked. Our 26th president, Teddy Roosevelt himself, often took nude plunges into the Potomac. And men’s high school and college swim teams would even train in the nude well into the 20th century. Outside of all-male groups, men were expected to cover up. Clothing that one wore specifically for swimming was firstly a modesty garment, and a practical garment second. Swimsuit regulations were the strictest in the U.S. in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when men were prohibited by law and custom from going bare-chested in public. Woolen one-piece suits with...

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