MrMiniver

Just make sure to NEVER wear a WHITE speedo after Labor Day!! Now that really will upset the queens!!

It won't upset the queens but white bathing suits in general can be a big/small mistake

Not so much judgmental as provincial. Most of the guys in the world use speedos, and women often take their tops off. It's not a sexual thing, it's a comfort thing. You can always spot Americans at the beach abroad, they're the ones blushing like kids when women are topless or acting embarrassed at mixed sex spas. Nudity is not always about sex.

How funny that the ones who are the first to use epithets like "provincial" and "judgmental" then go ahead and do the exact things they seem to accuse others of. LOL.

It's not "provincial" or "judgmental" to expect people of a certain age to look and act that age and not trying to be perpetually 25 years old and it has absolutely nothing to do with sex or blushing or any of that other nonsense. It has to do with taste and class and being appropriate. That's not "provincial" unless one thinks that anything goes no matter the situation or the place. Most people wouldn't call that attitude "provincial." They'd call it TACKY.

Thanks to Juan and Chris (and a few others) for having a positive attitude toward the aging male body. Honestly, some of you guys are so judgmental about your fellow human beings - with the implied subtext of superior taste and/or physical beauty. Confidence is sexy (wish I had more) but judgmental queenly bromides as written or uttered on this thread are not. No wonder you're paying for it (nasty, inappropriate swipe, I'll admit).

It's not a case of being "judgmental" -- which seems to be the fall back word when one's argument is weak or non-existent -- but a case of wearing garments that are both age-appropriate and body-appropriate. There are simply garments that are not meant to be worn by people of a certain age or certain body type. Old, fat, young, skinny ... it all depends. I don't think it shows "confidence" for a 70 year old man with a pot belly and overly tanned skin to walk around in public with a small strip of fabric barely covering his cock and ass. That doesn't make me judgmental.

What's wrong with Americans and speedos??....Growing up in Italy I got used to see speedos in any kind of man, muscular, skinny, normal, gorgeous or fat and ugly. Whatever you wear doesn't change who you are. At the beach wear whatever you feel more comfortable with. I live close to Brighton Beach in Brooklyn and go there often in summertime, it's absolutely refreshing and liberatory to see how most men (only Russians...) don't give a shit if they don't have a perfect body, but want to enjoy comfort on a beach.

Those ridiculous shorts/trunks that most men use are hideous, unless it's what you WANT to wear. To me they are totally uncomfortable at the beach. I have passed 50 4 years ago, I have a more than decent body and even if I didn't I would not care. I wear speedos always because I like it. If I am not in Miami Beach or in Brighton Beach I am usually one of the VERY few who wear speedos, and I don't give a damn if people are "offended" by the view of a bulge or my wrapped buttocks. People in US are super comfortable with violence, but body and sex (remember Janet Jackson's nipple?...) are taboo. Wrooong!

Yes, in Europe it seems the only men who wear speedos are EXACTLY the ones who shouldn't. Sometimes you can't even go to the beach -- at least not on a full stomach. You might get physically ill

I don't care if one looks like Steve Reeves at 25, no one over 45 should be wearing a speedo. No matter how good you think it looks or no matter how good it actually looks ... it's still a middle aged man wearing the garment of youth.

I think Fimmel looks way better in real life but Ludwig really gets me going. I'd love to see him pin Fimmel, his daddy

I've never seen this show, but, I read an interview with 20 year old Alexander Ludwig (he was the hunk in the first Hunger Games movie) who debuts in the new season as the son of Travis Fimmel (the lead character and former Calvin Klein model). This sentence in the review made me go WILD:

"We were playful off camera. Just before a take we'd start wrestling and see who could take the other. At the start he was able to take me. I think by the end of the shoot we were pretty even."

They're both 180 but Ludwig is 6'1" and Fimmel 5'11".

Forget the show, why don't they just film that?