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Apparently, the use of speedos has lost momentum in some countries over the last 20 or 25 years. But what about today, apart from Brazil, is there any country where the use of speedos is widespread?

The only countries I have used speedos: Las Vegas May 2022 at pool Park MGM resort USA; Mexico Cancún (playa del Carmen) Catalonia Hotel pool and beach, playa del Carmen…Cenote amazing relaxing clear water in January 2023.
Jamaica Montigo Bay holiday in Express and beach pool and beach, also wife and I went to the natural water fall, and I wore an Aussie un speedo all day during our visit. We took a tour to another state in Jamaica, people very friendly everywhere in Jamaica. I started wearing speedos just last year 2022. Planning to go to Cairo (Egypt) where wife and I will take a small cruise ship to sightsee the pyramids and other places… is it okay to wear my speedos at the cruiship swimming pool!?

Thanks for any helpful comment

Australia. Lots of young people and older people wearing them.

France.

Fred8110 wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 03, 2023 11:22 am

The only countries I have used speedos: Las Vegas May 2022 at pool Park MGM resort USA; Mexico Cancún (playa del Carmen) Catalonia Hotel pool and beach, playa del Carmen…Cenote amazing relaxing clear water in January 2023.
Jamaica Montigo Bay holiday in Express and beach pool and beach, also wife and I went to the natural water fall, and I wore an Aussie un speedo all day during our visit. We took a tour to another state in Jamaica, people very friendly everywhere in Jamaica. I started wearing speedos just last year 2022. Planning to go to Cairo (Egypt) where wife and I will take a small cruise ship to sightsee the pyramids and other places… is it okay to wear my speedos at the cruiship swimming pool!?

Thanks for any helpful comment

I took a Royal Caribbean cruise in the spring and wore a Gary Majdell “Ultra Greek” the entire cruise with no issues. Even wore a thong on at a port of call and for a snorkeling excursion with no issues at all. Normal brief would be totally fine.

If you search thru my past posts I have photos of both from that trip on the forum somewhere.

My top3 would be (Brazil and some other latin america areas):
Australia (never been so just by perception);
Italy;
France;

Further to Otobias's comment, I was at my local beach in Mandurah Western Australia the other day and almost half the guys there were in speedos.
And this was a wide range of ages.
At the local ocean swimming club there are only a few guys wearing jammers, the rest in speedos.

Croatia seems to be very speedo friendly. Check put pictures of their beaches, most men are wearing them.

Hi pix54,
Just had a few days in Mandurah at town beach. Wore my thong mostly. Speedo when walking up beach. Saw a few guys in speedos, alot of awful shorts though.
Wish all guys wore a speedo or thong to the beach.

Mexico used to be very speedo friendly in the past and you would see it often in their media, but not so much lately since the board shorts thing from the U.S. got popular in the early 2000s.

BozeHawk wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 07, 2023 8:57 am

France.
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I would happily follow the "No shorts" rule!

BozeHawk wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 07, 2023 8:57 am

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This was the rule at the municipal indoor-outdoor waterpark/spa facility in the town in southwest Germany where I was part of a school exchange group as a 17 year old in the early 1990s. I remember being simultaneously psyched and terrified because I was with some of my American classmates (all except one were girls) as well as ten or so of our German hosts and their classmates when we went after school one day. I had to buy a Speedo at the facility's gift shop and the girls made fun of me (really in jest) for about 30 seconds until the German boys, similarly clad, followed me out, they stopped because they didn't want to look like jerks. My terror only lasted about a minute and afterwards we carried on like normal because it was no big deal (this was also on the heels of the 1980s, when Speedos were much more common among all men at American beaches and pools). The Germans lightly poked fun back at the girls for their prudishness (and me too to a much lesser extent, mainly because I initially very softly "protested" before "giving in").

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This was the rule at the municipal indoor-outdoor waterpark/spa facility in the town in southwest Germany where I was part of a school exchange group as a 17 year old in the early 1990s. I remember being simultaneously psyched and terrified because I was with some of my American classmates (all except one were girls) as well as ten or so of our German hosts and their classmates when we went after school one day. I had to buy a Speedo at the facility's gift shop and the girls made fun of me (really in jest) for about 30 seconds until the German boys, similarly clad, followed me out, they stopped because they didn't want to look like jerks. My terror only lasted about a minute and afterwards we carried on like normal because it was no big deal (this was also on the heels of the 1980s, when Speedos were much more common among all men at American beaches and pools). The Germans lightly poked fun back at the girls for their prudishness (and me too to a much lesser extent, mainly because I initially very softly "protested" before "giving in").
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When I was a kid in West Berlin a classmate's father would take us once a week to the Stadtbad Neukölln in the American sector for men's nude swim. The pool is fantastic, and was seen in Sense8.