Mum of three boys says ban g-string bikinis at the pool

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#3259113 13-Jul-2024 11:45

thermonuclear:
I remember reading an online article not so long ago in which the columnist was bemoaning the fact that she wanted to buy a new swimsuit in New Zealand and could not find anything that was not a g-string for the bottom. I can't recall now exactly but I think this extended to many one-piece suit options as well, or perhaps she wasn't wanting to be "forced" to buy a one-piece suit in order to cover her butt.

In light of this flaring up, I wonder about that wider aspect. Whether it's been, in part, exacerbated by a lack of options for women these days. Presumably things are driven by market-forces and g-string suits wouldn't be as pervasive if they weren't popular and selling. How much is anything the "norm" because it's genuinely popular and widely accepted and how much of it is because of societal pressure and wanting to fit in, or a lack of choice in this instance?

As a swim mum, every female competitive swimmer at our pool is wearing a one piece g-string suit. While watching one day I was internet searching why, and yes it would seem the only competitive swimsuits available these days have a g-string.

My internet searching also revealed that the girls wedgie themselves before getting in the pool because while they are swimming they will ultimately get a wedgie anyway and have to pull it out, so they may as well start with a wedgie.

Fortunately for the women who aren’t under 30, there are non wedgie options in the recreational swimsuits.

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#3259116 13-Jul-2024 12:02

esawers:

As a swim mum, every female competitive swimmer at our pool is wearing a one piece g-string suit. While watching one day I was internet searching why, and yes it would seem the only competitive swimsuits available these days have a g-string.

I’m no expert on womens' swimming attire, but I know that competitive male swimmers frown upon boardshorts due to the fact that they create a bit of hydrodynamic drag when they flap around in the water.

It doesn't really make any difference to me as I can't sustain anything faster than 3:30/100m no matter what I'm wearing, but at some stage I might see if I can switch out the boardshorts for something more efficient without going full budgie smuggler.

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#3259118 13-Jul-2024 12:10

esawers: As a swim mum, every female competitive swimmer at our pool is wearing a one piece g-string suit. While watching one day I was internet searching why, and yes it would seem the only competitive swimsuits available these days have a g-string.

My internet searching also revealed that the girls wedgie themselves before getting in the pool because while they are swimming they will ultimately get a wedgie anyway and have to pull it out, so they may as well start with a wedgie.

Fortunately for the women who aren’t under 30, there are non wedgie options in the recreational swimsuits.

Isn't that the same as Australian competion surf lifesavers who wedgie their speedos supposedly to stop sliding in the boat? Fine when you're on the water but you'd be a poser just standing around. A lot of the actual racing suits seem neck to knee.

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#3259125 13-Jul-2024 13:07

thermonuclear:

I remember reading an online article not so long ago in which the columnist was bemoaning the fact that she wanted to buy a new swimsuit in New Zealand and could not find anything that was not a g-string for the bottom. I can't recall now exactly but I think this extended to many one-piece suit options as well, or perhaps she wasn't wanting to be "forced" to buy a one-piece suit in order to cover her butt.

In light of this flaring up, I wonder about that wider aspect. Whether it's been, in part, exacerbated by a lack of options for women these days. Presumably things are driven by market-forces and g-string suits wouldn't be as pervasive if they weren't popular and selling. How much is anything the "norm" because it's genuinely popular and widely accepted and how much of it is because of societal pressure and wanting to fit in, or a lack of choice in this instance?

Don't know what she was finding but a quick Google of competition swimwear and there are plenty of choices, almost all are average type two piece or full togs. The bottoms may have a higher cut but hardly a G String which implies no material showing except the top bit that holds the back string.

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#3259160 13-Jul-2024 15:28

May be a problem on sizes supported in certain styles in brick and mortar?
Generically it seems there is far less clothing choice in New Zealand.
So your favored style in a size that fits you well might be more to point?

Intermediate sizes, wide sizes and all that stuff in shoes as well.
I have heard of people doing the Australia shopping trip just to get fit they like.
Now there is internet with some risk on precise fit but.

Anyways, these styles have been around for decades.
You can probably go back to beach photos of last millennium.
Mostly people kept to themselves and got on with enjoying their life.

It's possibly a time to show children that being able to just move on and 'you do you'.
This is going to make life much better in the future.

Some don't realize life is too short, until.

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#3259363 14-Jul-2024 13:30

The article I referenced in my earlier post...

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/20-01-2024/why-is-every-bikini-bottom-a-thong-now

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#3259549 15-Jul-2024 03:33

All I can say is that my wife would shop overseas if she couldn’t find a non-thong option here. At 60, she would consider it inelegant.

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#3259645 15-Jul-2024 11:04

wellygary:

Courts don't work that way,

The 2008 "boobs on bikes" case found that it was not "offensive" thus declaring the Auckland Council's bylaw invalid....

But there was no official ruling that it always not "disorderly"- A woman walking topless along a sparsely populated beach is unlikely to be disorderly,

Doing it in a public library at story time , less so

https://www.nzlii.org/cgi-bin/sinodisp/nz/cases/NZDC/2008/14198.html

Thanks for the clarification.

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#3259827 15-Jul-2024 16:19

Bung:

Isn't that the same as Australian competion surf lifesavers who wedgie their speedos supposedly to stop sliding in the boat? Fine when you're on the water but you'd be a poser just standing around. A lot of the actual racing suits seem neck to knee.

It's to encourage sliding. Surf life saving rowing boat's don't have sliding seats like Olympic rowing boats. Instead they have flat white area's where the buttocks can (with the aid of a lubricant) slide back and forwards with each stroke.

Heavy seas cause chaos with surf boats at the Australian Surf Lifesaving Championships at Kurrawa. Long Reef Reserve Boat crew. | Surfing, Rowing, Bodyboarding

Heavy seas cause chaos with surf boats at the Australian Surf Lifesaving Championships at Kurrawa. Long Reef Reserve Boat crew. | Surfing, Rowing, Bodyboarding

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#3259855 15-Jul-2024 17:48

I'm always amused when stories like these crop up.

It's the sad reality of the modern media environment, where clicks & engagement trump quality of content. Hence incentivizing the production of content which created enough of an emotional response in people to get them to respond. And here I am getting sucked in.

I note stuff current title title is: ‘Am I being a prude?’ Mum tests the water on a g-string bikini ban at pool

A few key points:

Exposure to nudity does not have a negative impact on children. Some studies found that it has positive outcomes: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/chso.12743
As such, anybody using "think of the children" to tell others what to wear is either poorly informed, or just using the children as an excuse to get what they want.
There is a decent chance the swimwear in question was actually the g-string / Thong type. More likely it is a refence Cheeky (and similar) cut swimwear that has become very popular over the last several years. (given the latter's tendency to move to wedgie position, the confusion is understandable)
In 2024, no community pool is going to want to get involved in a culture war by telling woman what swimwear they can wear, especially when the swimwear in question is mainstream fashion.
I doubt community pools want to police swimwear at all, (beyond what is required for safety & hygiene purposes i.e. insisting people don't swim swim in the jeans and T-shirt they have been wearing all day, and kids that are not toilet trained have swim nappies on). Even this must be quite a chore.

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#3259865 15-Jul-2024 19:08

Personally I find the idea of wedgie swimwear repulsive. I am too old for that nonsense and I don't want shit all over my togs.

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#3260309 16-Jul-2024 14:44

You've probably got bigger things to worry about if that's your reasoning.

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#3260516 16-Jul-2024 22:15

I haven't read through the thread, but the three boys are probably obese and can't swim at all. So there's a good chance they'll be banned from the pool because of the risk of drowning. 🤣

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#3260576 17-Jul-2024 00:00

In Japan, it is forbidden to go to the onsen bath clothed (or naked with a tattoo). 😉

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#3260588 17-Jul-2024 08:01

Tinkerisk:

I haven't read through the thread, but the three boys are probably obese and can't swim at all. So there's a good chance they'll be banned from the pool because of the risk of drowning. 🤣

What??

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