G STRINGS — Conduct and Etiquette on True Nudists

DonOriginal Poster

Jan 17, 2022

In Australia, more and more girls and young women are wearing g string bikinis. I don't have a problem with that because some girls look sensational (although some should give it a miss). I have never seen a guy wearing one at the beach, in fact normal beach attire for blokes is board shorts, it's only some people of my age that tend to wear speedos. My question is to the girls here, do you think guys wearing g strings on the beach is a good look?

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ManOfWicklow
Jan 30, 2022
I need a new G string for my guitar.
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John
Jan 30, 2022
[quote]I need a new G string for my guitar.[/quote] Is it a twelve-string, and the high G breaking? Those suckers break all the time.
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Marcus
Feb 1, 2022
I think it is a question of the framing. G string means porn culture, naked means nudist culture, different cultures, different manners and behaviour.
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Tom D
Feb 1, 2022
[quote]I think it is a question of the framing. G string means porn culture, naked means nudist culture, different cultures, different manners and behaviour.[/quote] For some, yes, but others wear g strings because they want maximum exposure without displaying their sexual organs,
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Paul
Feb 1, 2022
And Davenport has a very nice restaurant right across the highway from the beach. [quote]While the California Department of Parks and Recreation DOES ban nudity on their state beaches, there are also various local jurisdictional rules, and informal understandings. For example, the beaches in Santa Cruz, Capitola and Aptos certainly ban nudity, but go up Highway 1 to Davenport and you see nudists about.[/quote]
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Paul
Feb 1, 2022
Cahill wrote his memo in 1979. [quote]A lot of people believe that California is nudist friendly due to our reputation of being a liberal state and our generally good weather.However, nothing could be further from the truth.I believe it was in the early 90's that California passed a law banning nudity on all state land.Russ Cahill, the director of the California Department of Parks and Recreation at the time, put in the policy that any area that had a history of nude use that nudists would only be sited if there was a complaint and they refused to cover up. This became known as the Cahill policy.Unfortunately future directors have decided to ignore that policy so officially there are no state lands where nudity is allowed. That is not to say that nudity is no longer occurring on state land it is just that at any time without warning that could be stopped.[/quote]
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Member
Oct 21, 2022
I'm not certain that's correct - my understanding from the most recent anthropological studies is that clothing was developed to keep us warm at a time when humans had shed their fur and were pushing further north into Europe. This has been evidenced by many studies around lice across the primate group.
Around this same time (shortly after shedding fur) humans also developed the 'shame factor' to ensure they stayed as couples to raise the offspring - as humans not only have one of the longest gestation periods but also the longest timeline to independence from parents.
I think there is a lot of speculative beliefs around clothing in our community that reflect issues that came much later. Amongst those are 'decency' and morality (as set by religion), safety/warfare/defence and also 'belonging' (dressing the same to show tribal or cultural participation).
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Member
Oct 21, 2022
I asked my wife for an answer (as she doesn't have a profile on here) - hell no was her reply.
She elaborated to say that the sooner all beaches are C/O the better off we'll all be and those who wish to wear nothing can, those who want to pretend (g-string etc) they wear nothing can and those who wish to be fully clad can - and that way we can all get on with our lives!
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Member
Oct 21, 2022
Is it our right to pick and choose for others though? Surely no matter what your shape you're allowed to wear whatever you like, inlcuding nothing at all.
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StevieLorna
Oct 21, 2022
[quote]Is it our right to pick and choose for others though? Surely no matter what your shape you're allowed to wear whatever you like, inlcuding nothing at all.[/quote] Yip, I like to wear donkey ears on the beach. Please dont judge me.
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EarlD
Oct 21, 2022
[quote]I need a new G string for my guitar.[/quote]

Haha - thats about the only kind of G string I have anything to do with.
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Tom D
Oct 21, 2022
[quote]I need a new G string for my guitar.[/quote] Just like Bach's air for a G string is not music for a strip routine.
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Tom D
Oct 22, 2022
[quote]In Australia, more and more girls and young women are wearing g string bikinis. I don't have a problem with that because some girls look sensational (although some should give it a miss). I have never seen a guy wearing one at the beach, in fact normal beach attire for blokes is board shorts, it's only some people of my age that tend to wear speedos. My question is to the girls here, do you think guys wearing g strings on the beach is a good look? Not only women but also some men should avoid g string.[/quote] True, but a lot fewer men wear them.
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StevieLorna
Oct 22, 2022
[quote] True, but a lot fewer men wear them.[/quote] Yeah, those are the men hes talking about.
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Stone Andy
Oct 23, 2022
On Hollywood Beach in Chicago, men wear g strings because nudity is illegal and it's the closest they can be to naked without getting arrested. One sided thongs and C-strings are skimpier versions of not quite naked, but they don't strike me as functional.
I agree that skimpy is more enticing than naked. However, skimpy can also feel like a form of modesty to cover body parts people feel shame over. Thus, non-nudists may prefer to cover a penis they feel is "too small" or wear a swim shirt to hide moobs. This of course only creates more self-consciousness. In the unmasked sun and wind everything becomes one and equal.
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Stu
Jul 1, 2023
My thought is that if you are going to wear something as skimpy as a G-string (whether you are male or female), why wear anything at all?
You may as well just be nude.
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Stu
Jul 1, 2023
My thought is that if you are going to wear something as skimpy as a G-string (whether you are male or female), why wear anything at all?
You may as well just be nude.
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Tom D
Jul 1, 2023
[quote]My thought is that if you are going to wear something as skimpy as a G-string (whether you are male or female), why wear anything at all? You may as well just be nude.[/quote] Only reason I can think of is that in some locations, g strings are legal but nudity is not. Why there is a law like that makes little sense, but it has to be obeyed anyway.
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Steve
Jul 2, 2023
Either meeting the letter of the law or meeting the expectations of your peer group. I'm surprised about the trend to reveal so much bum in recent times and can only conclude it's social acceptability, especially when the rest of the suit is not particularly minimal.
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Brian
Jul 2, 2023
The thing is, people wear them i would think Inthe main because nudity is illegal, here in the UK it isn't as long as there is no sexual element or provocation, yet I think, and see how many others agree, thongs, G strings and micro bikinis are a lot more sexually provocative than simple nudity, so sticking to the letter of the law in that case has the opposite effect of what they were trying to achieve in the first place!!
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nudeyooper
Jul 2, 2023
[quote]The thing is, people wear them i would think Inthe main because nudity is illegal, here in the UK it isn't as long as there is no sexual element or provocation, yet I think, and see how many others agree, thongs, G strings and micro bikinis are a lot more sexually provocative than simple nudity, so sticking to the letter of the law in that case has the opposite effect of what they were trying to achieve in the first place!![/quote] I have argued this point for many years.
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Brian
Jul 2, 2023
[quote]The thing is, people wear them i would think Inthe main because nudity is illegal, here in the UK it isn't as long as there is no sexual element or provocation, yet I think, and see how many others agree, thongs, G strings and micro bikinis are a lot more sexually provocative than simple nudity, so sticking to the letter of the law in that case has the opposite effect of what they were trying to achieve in the first place!! I have argued this point for many years.[/quote] Glad it's not just me then . !!!!
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ME
Member
Aug 7, 2023
[quote]An interesting theory clothing, was primarily "invented" ... for sexual attraction!!! but I don't think so. Man was millions of years nude and began to dress when they reached the colder parts of the world. People in Africa and Australia remain nude. People there believed in a world of good and bad ghosts. Some of them mainly women protected their body orifices against bad ghosts with some kind of clothing sometimes only symbolic with a string. Clothing for sexual attraction is an invention of the clothed part of the world.[/quote] I don't believe this theory fits with the anthropologists - they see we started to wear clothes when we started losing body hair, and well long before hominids made it to colder climates. We started to lose body hair when we started to perspire as very early hominids. Various 'peoples' around the world (not just in Africa and Australia) remained 'nude' or partially nude because they either didn't develop the techniques to make clothes and/or did not have viable volumes of materials to make greater clothing covering more of the body. What did get made was that which protected, gave status and highlighted belonging!
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Tom D
Aug 7, 2023
[quote]I'm not certain that's correct - my understanding from the most recent anthropological studies is that clothing was developed to keep us warm at a time when humans had shed their fur and were pushing further north into Europe. This has been evidenced by many studies around lice across the primate group. Around this same time (shortly after shedding fur) humans also developed the 'shame factor' to ensure they stayed as couples to raise the offspring - as humans not only have one of the longest gestation periods but also the longest timeline to independence from parents. [quote] Maybe if clothing was invented to keep warm, global warming will open a opportunity to give it up.
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