When my SO and i moved from a condo 5 years ago we listed our priorities for the house we were looking for. One of them was a private back yard, for a variety of reasons. One most defenitly was either nude or thong sunbathing.

When i met her not long after we both got divorced she had never worn a thong other than as underwear,,,, when she even wore it. She discovered my collection and wondered why i had not worn them with her on our boat or deck. I began wearing them and soon she was searching on line for thong bikinis for her. I suggested wicked weasel and monster was created. Her WW collection is massive and always growing.

We did find a house that fit most of our requirements including almost unlimited privacy. Its not really a matter if not being seen as we are both healthy exhibitionists. Its that we do respect others and do not wish to offend them or make them feel uncomfortable. We dont necessary cover up all the time as as such both the FedEx and UPS and US mail people have seen us in our thongs which bothers none of us. We are committed thongers and sometime nudists but we do feel a certain responsibility of respecting others. Our backyard being completely private takes the worry out if it.

I often wear very little in my yard, but I think it would still be considered legal coverage. One can go quite small without flashing the goods. I am out front, on the street, or just generally around and about in just a thong. 

I like it when people notice and treat me just the way they would if I were not wearing a thong. Do I like it when people smile and wave? Yes. Out front, people passing in cars, or on the rental electric scooters, or biking, or walking, or pushing the kids in strollers. Out back on the water side it is people passing in boats, or kayaks, or paddleboards.   

I don't get a sexual thrill from people seeing me in a thong, but I do get quiet joy from people seeing myself or others in thongs, and to some extent I have come to enjoy tweaking the noses of any self righteous prudes. The more people see other regular people in thongs, (not just the models on instagram), the more generally accepted thongs will be.
Seeing other people in thongs makes me just as happy as people seing me in a thong. It brings a smile to my face, especially when they wear it well. 

When my mother first settled in Spain she was somewhat annoyed that people took boom-boxes to the beach. In the UK everyone was quiet and respectful of others audio space. She found the Spanish beach culture on the islands a little in her face, but finally came to the conclusion that it was not just enough to have a good time, but one must be seen to be having a good time. In time my mother came around to seeing it was not just being exobitionistic about the fun they were having, but an invitation to other people to have fun too. A celebration of life. 

I am not running the beach any more, but I am flying the flag for thongs being a normal choice.  AND the more people who see people in thongs the more people just accept thongs as normal. When I was regularlly running the beach for several miles each way, in a thong, hundreds or thousands of people noticed a man in a thong.... acting perfectly normal, taking a run, and not worrying about who saw or what they thought about it. I suppose I enjoyed being the exhibit, and sometimes with a group of women the center of attraction, but that did not make me a sexual exhobitionist.  

It is a bit like when we go out in large groups to bicycle round the town. Not only are we enjoying ourselves, we take delight in making sure other people seeing that bicycling is normal, and that we are having fun on our bikes. We are, in a way, exhibiting that riding bikes around town is fun. We are not sexual exhbitionists. 

It is a bit like that with thonging. I want other people to see that I am not shy about wearing one. People see I am comfortable in my own skin and not worried that some more prudish people might disapprove. I am not out to please all the people all the time, and if they don't like a man in a thong that's their problem, in their own head.

Even though many of my thongs are tiny g-strings, I am not sporting an erection and this is not a sexual thing for me.  I think people confuse the joy of nudity, or thonging, with sexual exhabitionism. I don't think jglgmp was suggesting they were sexual exhbitionists in their back garden, just nudists and thongers. Sometimes people conflate the two. 

 We need more thongers of both sexes openly thonging, on the beaches and around their neighborhoods, so a man wearing a thong becomes no more associated with deviant sexual behavior than a women wearing a thong. 

I lay out in a thong in my backyard here in Texas. It is fenced in, but neighbors could see if they tried. I have also gone nude out there. As far as I know, no one has seen me, at least if they have no one has complained.  I try to watch for them and if they are about, I do put on shorts or cover up with a towel.