If you're a man and you're not wearing a swim shirt, what are we even doing here?

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Anonymous wrote:I don't get this. In Europe no one is wearing swim shirts. Seems the typical American Prude.

Sounds like you haven’t been around American pools enough. If you saw how gross 99% of the men look, you too would be begging for them to wear shirts.

+1. Nothing anyone wants to look at 99% of the time.

A lot of US women could use some covering up as well.

The majority of women in this country are obese to one degree or another. Many are morbidly obese.

Some men are into obese women and like to feed them like a pet pot-bellied pig, getting fatter and fatter and sexier and sexier with each pound put on.

YUCKY !

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Anonymous wrote:And even more why are you jogging shirtless?

It’s not because of you have visible abs, and a nice wicking shirt will keep you cooler.

Shirtless should not be considered polite for either gender

Those running shirts get soaked and heavy with sweat and are in no way cooler.

And obviously it’s not advisable to run mid day when the sun is pounding on you. Most white collars jog in the mornings and early evening.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't get this. In Europe no one is wearing swim shirts. Seems the typical American Prude.

In Europe, people tend to have lower BMIs. Nobody wants to see your red flabby belly.

You haven’t spent time in Europe, I take it

This, there are plenty of overweight people on beaches and at pools in Europe. Especially over a certain age. Maybe if you are at a pool party in Ibiza filled with hot 22 year olds, but at a public beach or one of the municipal pools? You will see plenty of people, especially middle aged and older, with bellies, arm flab, sagging boobs, etc. And none of them are wearing swim shirts. Which means you also get to see the sun worshippers with skin that looks like leather, after decades of tanning and smoking. No one cares.

I think people are just less self conscious about bodies there. Look at many of the comments in this thread, acting like seeing a body that isn't a perfect 10 is some kind of burden. That normal things like having a gut or some body hair are things to be hiding and ashamed of. You need to get over yourselves.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't get this. In Europe no one is wearing swim shirts. Seems the typical American Prude.

Oh my, those Europeans are so enlightened and sophisticated!

It’s true. Not sure why you are trying to be snarky or funny or something here.

Why do you think avoiding skin damage and cancer has anything to do with being prudish?

DP. I have fair skin and do wear a a long sleeve shirt at the beach or if I go to the pool in the middle of the day (not always a swim shirt, depends on if I plan to go in the water and for how long).

But otherwise I don't. If I go to the pool at 4pm I just wear sunscreen. I don't like how sun shirts feel and I'd rather time my pool visit to a time when the sun is less dangerous than swim in one.

I am thinking about getting a rash guard one piece to see if that feels any better. But I'm worried I'll buy it, discover I hate how it feels when wet, and then never wear it. Whereas my current strategy of just wearing a cover up over my swimsuit and then slathering on sunscreen for the 15 minutes I plan to be in the water before covering up again is very adaptable to the situation.

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Anonymous wrote:Seriously, it's 2025. A quality swimshirt with SPF protection is so much easier to deal with than trying to keep sunscreen on while in the water. I happen to also be hairy which makes it particularly challenging to put sunscreen on it. I love my swimshirts.

My husband calls them a cuck shirt. Obviously something the wife buys and forces her henpecked husband to wear in public to humiliate him.

No working prime white collar man is at a pool or beach long enough to have some obsessive fear of skin cancer. If your husband is a boater, fisher, golfer, runner, bicyclist, gardener? Sure, it’s smart to give mindshare to protecting his skin.

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Most people take a quick dip then go back under the umbrella. No need to wear a shirt.

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Anonymous wrote:Most people take a quick dip then go back under the umbrella. No need to wear a shirt.

Right? I never see men just in the sun for hours.

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Anonymous wrote:Seriously, it's 2025. A quality swimshirt with SPF protection is so much easier to deal with than trying to keep sunscreen on while in the water. I happen to also be hairy which makes it particularly challenging to put sunscreen on it. I love my swimshirts.

My husband calls them a cuck shirt. Obviously something the wife buys and forces her henpecked husband to wear in public to humiliate him.

No working prime white collar man is at a pool or beach long enough to have some obsessive fear of skin cancer. If your husband is a boater, fisher, golfer, runner, bicyclist, gardener? Sure, it’s smart to give mindshare to protecting his skin.

Nice to see the trash taking each other out of the romance pool. Men and women salute you two.

Don't forget to pick up a 12-yr old at the park for your Macho Alpha Man tonight.

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Anonymous wrote:Most people take a quick dip then go back under the umbrella. No need to wear a shirt.

Right? I never see men just in the sun for hours.

If they were educated about sun /swim shirts you would see them!

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Anonymous wrote:I don't get this. In Europe no one is wearing swim shirts. Seems the typical American Prude.

Sounds like you haven’t been around American pools enough. If you saw how gross 99% of the men look, you too would be begging for them to wear shirts.

+1. Nothing anyone wants to look at 99% of the time.

A lot of US women could use some covering up as well.

The majority of women in this country are obese to one degree or another. Many are morbidly obese.

Everyone should cover up if they are fat.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't get this. In Europe no one is wearing swim shirts. Seems the typical American Prude.

Sounds like you haven’t been around American pools enough. If you saw how gross 99% of the men look, you too would be begging for them to wear shirts.

+1. Nothing anyone wants to look at 99% of the time.

A lot of US women could use some covering up as well.

The majority of women in this country are obese to one degree or another. Many are morbidly obese.

Everyone should cover up if they are fat.

Then I suppose you always wear duct tape over your mouth. It IS an improvement.

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Some of these responses…geez

I’m a guy. I’m wearing a SPF swim shirt. I was a lifeguard when in HS and would get toasted in the sun. Not a lot of sunscreen.

I had to have some moles cut off my back and shoulders and that was the end of not wearing a swim shirt when at the pool or beach.

No issues since I started to wear. I’m it’s short sleeve. Looks kinda goidy to have lily whit forearms and a tan neck and face.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't get this. In Europe no one is wearing swim shirts. Seems the typical American Prude.

Sounds like you haven’t been around American pools enough. If you saw how gross 99% of the men look, you too would be begging for them to wear shirts.

+1. Nothing anyone wants to look at 99% of the time.

A lot of US women could use some covering up as well.

The majority of women in this country are obese to one degree or another. Many are morbidly obese.

Everyone should cover up if they are fat.

Truth

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There should be a rule that if you don’t have pecs/abs, you have to wear a shirt.

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Lounging by the pool or sunbathing at the beach all day is a feminine thing.