Several people have asked me what shots are of me. Not being the camera operator, or the poster of the pictures, it's difficult to find pictures of your self. But.. I am sure the two that come up are me. Most others from Lauderdale are not, except one that comes up under a search for "G string lauderdale". Also the picture titled "thong man running on the beach" pulls up another one me and a lot that are not . There is one of me at the shower, but I have lost it. Another one listed as "thong jogger", yet another listed as g-string lauderdale, although that last one makes me look like a complete spaz, no the other picture of me is not me.

That makes about 7 sneaky shots people have taken of me. You can only search on the captions and since most people don't seem to add captions, I suspect there a few more on this website.

Shots X the number of picture sites X size of the ... well you get the picture, there must be a bunch more out there.

UPDATE:  Jan 2006 - I notice that most of the shots have now expired or vanished.  Three still exist, not good ones but still there.

http://community.webshots.com/photo/248042061/1248060170063956614APnIcw

http://community.webshots.com/photo/115979890/1115994402053486280HKPafk

http://community.webshots.com/photo/320282074/1320499788065455803eaTzuP

http://community.webshots.com/photo/127295551/1127307950053227130KyDVKs

If I did not help identifying myself in these pictures no one else would have been able to.  Even I had to look carefully and use the backgrounds for clues to figure out if it was me.  This shows that even if a picture of you turns up in the web, of you in a thong on the beach,  it is highly unlikely that anyone will be able to identify you.

JM,

Glad to know that the guy running on a thong with black shoes and white socks is not you.   This person must not have any good friends who could tell him how bad this combination looks.

I reckon I could find your shots, are you wearing a white baseball cup?  if that's you, you are in very good shape, no wonder after so many miles ran every morning at the beach.

I noticed an obvious bitchy-negative comment on most of the shots showing men wearing a thong.  Even in the ones where the guys seem to be very fit and muscular, there's almost always some ridicule tone comment.   Now, regarding the gentleman posing with the girls, I admire his courage, but to be honest he looks pathetic, not just his g-string (not a thong) is ugly, his body looks all soft like a jellyfish, no muscular definition, whatsoever.  On top of that he is fat, but the amazing thing is that he seems to be so proud of how he looks.  No wonder why these girls are laughing at him.

However it would be interesting to search for "thong woman" instead of "thong man", and see what the comments are.  I'm certain the comments would not be as negative as for the men's.   There is this trend from some women, to permanently try to ridicule men and how they look.  "Don't throw rocks if you live in a glass house", some people say.    At least all these gentlemen in the "thong man" section, are on the beach, where you are supossed to be semi-naked. 

What about all those big fat cowes, women with no shape or waist, wearing low rise jeans on the streets, supermarkets, petrol stations, everywhere!!  and soooo proud of their revolting fat around their waist.   I wonder if these are the same women who criticise us men wearing speedos or thongs on the beach.

John Howard

Note for people who assume that others will think they are gay, just because they wear a thong.

Looking at webshots I see more than a dozen pictures that other people have taken of me. Some of the searches that pulled up pictures are listed above.

It occurred to me that we could test peoples assumptions by seeing if they had listed any men in thongs as gay.

Since I run and thong on Fort Lauderdale beach I first searched for Gay Lauderdale. No pictures of men thongs on the beach, not at all, not me, Not Anybody. Of all the pictures of men in thongs on Lauderdale beach, none had the word gay in the caption.

So I tried the more general searches g-string gay and string gay, still no men in thongs on any beaches. But the winner was Gay Thong. This time, in all the shots that came up, there was one, only one, picture of a man in a thong on a beach. Hay, that might be me...no they say it's from Miami's south beach, so unlikely. But still, only one hit.

Of all the thousands of thong pictures, and all the hundreds of pictures of men in thongs, only this one picture of a guy in a thong at a beach, mentions the words 'gay' and 'thong' in the same caption. Interesting. (If you want to find this picture quickly, try 'gay beach thong'.)

In a database that has 17,000 pictures, Only one picture of a man in a thong at the beach - has the worlds gay & thong in the caption.

Goes to show, people may be looking at you with interest, or amusement, but they are NOT automatically categorizing you as gay.

Reply to Ryan, regarding the use of  "That's gay" in the speech of people under 25.

Some words and expressions do not translate well.  For example, I have for years being trying to explain the subtlety of the expressions "Sod it' or S"Sod off" to Americans.  Just substituting the F word does not work when it's used in the non-aggressive way, as in I am turning my back and not dealing with this, or this person,  for they or it, no longer appear on my radar screen.

I agree.  In today's speach the comment "That's gay" means, as close as I can get to it, 'Wet'.  It is a dismissive comment.

Something the speaker would not want, or think to do.  A bit limp, as in noodle type limp, not wrist type limp. (Not that noodle).

Also used to dismiss the current subject of conversation and move on to something more interesting.

OK, on webshots, try Topless south beach or the words Thong south beach in your searches. Then try the same with Topless Miami or Thong Miami or G-String Miami.  The comblinations some times bring up some of the same pictures, but each brings up new ones not found in the other searches.