Influencers Today it seems like young people are easily influenced by young attractive people on the internet. There is a young attractive man with a nice body on Youtube who has listings under LaPlayita. He has many videos of him at beaches in thongs. He has created his own thong label and sells what looks like well-made thongs. One of his new styles is called curtains, where the small pouch is adjustable and small Rio style back that also adjusts into a thong. He also has his own personal pages on youtube where he and his friend go to the beach or resorts with him always sporting a thong. He is Spanish. I don't understand what he is saying. It would be great if English speaking young men who were as comfortable being in a thong at the beach would post their videos of them in thongs. We need young attractive male influencers to promote thongs and be seen walking around going to the beach and other places in a thong and not as a joke. Maybe then, men's thongs would be accepted as normal. I wish LaPlayita thongs had a cheaper shipping option. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls17KGUMfR0&t=216s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXiZu029slE www.laplayitamoda.com https://twitter.com/LaPlayitaModa https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz1sRvWMn1qTcnUzHza1yBg/featured

Young people have always been influenced by the young attractive, fit, beautiful and glamorous. Girls now see young women in their thongs posing at exotic locations, on yachts, expensive hotel pools, under Hawaiian waterfalls or other glamourous destinations. So mainstream swimsuits for young women have gone cheeky or thongs.

We need to encourage young men to feel confident, and to thong publicly and openly. Not secretively behind windbreaks or only on deserted beaches.

Give any guy you see in a thong a thumbs UP or cheer from a distance. I ain't young, but when out paddle boarding I feel good when the boats cheer or holla. It is normal to get smiles and waves from the passing boats, but I also get lots of cheers and hollas, from the women AND the young men. Lately I have been surprised at the amount of very vocal support from young men in their twenties. 

If more older men, who are not obese or ridiculous, thong regularly, and publicly, young men will see the positive reaction we get from the women and maybe the more adventurous will follow suit. Pun intended.

The other thing we have to do is comment on any published picture of a man in a thong. Say you like his courage etc. There will always be some deweb saying their eyes will never recover, but just like us, others weigh the positive and negative comments. So be sure to support other thongers. 

On YouTube videos... Settings (gear icon) Subtitles/CC, change from "Off" to "Spanish auto-generated". Repeat the "Subtitles/CC" selection to change "Auto-translate" to your language. For example, will now display "Spanish(auto-generated)>>English"

Thanks, itanng for the information. I was able to watch a few of Keko's videos and understand him. It is his brother with him in the videos and I learned he also gets nervous at times and that is why he makes the curtain thongs. He also has the same issues that people think he has to be gay since he likes wearing a thong. I didn't understand if he is or not, not that it matters to me if he is or what others think of me when I wear a thong or g-string. I wear what I like and feel comfortable in either a g-string or small thong. BTW, I don't try wearing the smallest suit at the lake, but most of the time I am. I don't worry anymore what others think, but I never wear the extreme sleave type suits or those that are see-through mesh. None of my suits are lined and I do have some light-colored suits I wear that get somewhat sheer when wet. But I am careful to be in an appropriate situation if they do get wet. There is a time and place for everything.

JM -- You said "If more older men, who are not obese or ridiculous, thong regularly, and publicly, young men will see the positive reaction we get from the women and maybe the more adventurous will follow suit. Pun intended." JM -- I agree with almost everything you say, except the "obese" part. My dad is "pulling 60", so he is an older man. He also has the traditional old-man weight issues. Over the years he has put on weight. There were of course signs his weight was going up like going from a large to and extra large to a 2XL t-shirt or buying jeans and belts a size larger every few years. This gradual increase in body weight was so slow that hardly anyone noticed. But having been thonging since the 1960s he had never thought twice about what type swimwear to put on. Today, he usually wears a conservative thong. He knows that almost any man can wear a conservate thong but even fit young men can have trouble pulling off a g-string, baggie, missile suit or bedroom costume. He rarely wears more than a thong at the beach or pools and gets mostly positive reactions from women of all ages. A thong, some confidence and a non-threatening attitude go a long way to break the ice. It always amazes me how friendly people are with my dad at beaches and pools. Most people are tollerent of his swimwear and don't say a word. He is cool about wearing thongs, and others are tollerant of what he has on. Perhaps it is because he has so much confidence, perhaps it is because he doesn't let his age control his life. Perhaps it is simply that people respect their elders and give them a bit more latitude in what they wear. All he knows is that there was a period during the late 1980s until the late 2010s where even my thick-skinned dad ran into anti-thong people who tried to make his life misserable. Men were singled out for criticism, and even the most buff were subject to cat-calls and insults. Technically he probably is obese, but he lost about 50 pounds in the last year or so. So now his BMI (Body Mass Index) is getting closer to where his doctor wants it to be. He has to work out hard to get his body back in shape. I love him and think it's great he is loosing weight. And what is surprising me is that many people, from friends to total stangers, are very supportive of his weight loss attempts too. There is no way he can hide his excess bagage when he wears a thong, and people say he has a good self-image to be able to wear so little in front of others. I have met older obese men who are not ashamed to wear thongs and become good beach buddies. I think the important thing is how a man presents himself to others. I have had all ages of men and a few women make inappropriate comments. I was topfree once when an older male thonger in a bedroom costume pestered me so much I put my top on and moved. He followed me and demanded I take my shirt off since he was showing bis buns and prominent erection. A young man in a ball exposing suit ask if I liked seeing his ball sack! He fished out a boner and ask if I liked it too. I believe that if we want to see more men wearing thongs, then everyone needs to interact with all types of thongers. People will see there are thongers and non-thongers who are jerks. Thong wearers should be made up of all types of people. Men and women, older and younger, obese or thin, black or white, etc. If we start saying only good looking people should wear thongs, then we are putting the same judgements on other thongers that we don't want applied to ourselves. Saying this type person or that type person can wear thongs will reinforce the concept that thongs are only for the cute or handsome. This is out of sync with how we want to be treated by others, and this could even be extended to say "only women should wear thongs" or "thongs are bad on everyone". This is what I think started the strong anti-thong movement that has restricted our lives on and off for the last 30 years or so.

Ithongit very well said. I agree 100%