Male Stars Feel the Need for Speedos

Female celebs routinely sport bikinis but recently it's the men who are making a splash in spandex.

While board shorts have long been most men's swimwear of choice, lately everyone from musicians to movie stars and even athletes, have been throwing modesty to the wind and flaunting their stuff in variations of the classic banana hammock.



Puerto Rican pop star Ricky Martin may have been livin' la vida loca in his black speedo on the beaches of St. Barths but it's his ripped bod that really has us going crazy.

English soccer stud David Beckham causes a commotion everywhere he goes. And by the looks of the metrosexual poster boy in his skimpy bathing suit this was no exception. David's speedo gives new meaning to the term "Bend It Like Beckham."

When blonde Brit Daniel Craig was chosen to be the next James Bond people wondered if he could fill the legendary spy's shoes. But as seen here in a scene from the upcoming film "Casino Royale," Craig's sculpted physique in his tight black trunks help to really show off his 007.


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16. Try going down a waterslide in boardshorts, then in speedos. With boardshorts, the poor man has to constantly push against the sides of the slide to keep moving. Wearing a speedo, he just has to glide down.

Another thing with board shorts, some of them are starting to look like board pants.

Ladies, most men aren't perfect 10s. A fat man in speedos is still going to be fat wearing board shorts. As for women, most of you aren't perfect 10s either. Isn't it time you bring out the 1920s bloomers?

Posted at 7:05AM on Jul 29th 2006 by Mark

17. Hey Kat, but it's okay when a woman wears a bikini and we get to see her "camel toe?" Talk about eeewwww!

Posted at 7:41AM on Jul 29th 2006 by EJM

18. When a man wears board shorts going down a water slide, he has to sometimes push on the sides to keep moving. The same man wearing a speedo will glide down easily.

This year, I've noticed board shorts so long that they go down to the ankles. Who wears pants while swimming?

Women may not like seeing fat men in speedos. I think the real message is that these women do not like seeing fat men, period. A fat man in board shorts is still going to appear fat. Let him in the pool so he can get some exercise.

Most men are not 10s. At the same time, most women aren't 10s either. Perhaps these women should be wearing 1920s style bloomers.

For North Americans, go to Europe and one will see men in different types of swimwear. One will not hear women go, "Ewwwwwewewewwwweeeee!" European women are too mature to say such a thing.

Finally, if women do not like seeing a man in speedos, look at his face while talking to him. I'm sure you wouldn't want men staring at women's chests while conversing.

Posted at 7:41AM on Jul 29th 2006 by Robert

19. Kat and Sandy,
The online vote does not seem to agree with your initial reactions. By the way when your at the beach it is different than when your at the mall or at home.
From the pictures there is nothing bulging or offensive. In fact these men are just proud of their bodies that they probably work on. You know in some places of the world it is common to see exposed breasts, nipples, and similar genetelia. Consider what they are not showing and that is a thong with full cheeks exposed, and possibly but floss action in the back.
I have a suggestion if you don't like to looks of buldges, don't look there. I fact don't go out. Stay home.
I think it is a great idea to throw out those goofy looking, oversized, basketball pants.

R

Posted at 8:09AM on Jul 29th 2006 by R Garcia

20. I agree with EJM -- why can women flaunt it but if a guy has a hot bod it's ewww? I say if you look like these guys -- Whoo hoo!!! go for it!!!! Nice eye candy!

Posted at 9:08AM on Jul 29th 2006 by me

21. I think speedo's are the closest thing men have to skinny dipping...
I also echo the 'if you got it flaunt it' comment. More power to them.
women wear practically nothing, why cant men...

Posted at 10:50AM on Jul 29th 2006 by Libby

22. Mmmmm........my husband is a european "foreigner" and he fits his speedo very nicely as well......lovely eye candy........

Posted at 12:14PM on Jul 29th 2006 by M.M.M.

23. These guys are hot. If you can got it flaunt it. And I still think Ricky Martin is gay!

Posted at 1:37PM on Jul 29th 2006 by Carrie

24. sorry you lose. the sexiest bathing suit on the beach is a pair of board shorts with no liner. when you come out of the water, the suit clings to all the right places. also leaves a little to the imagination when dry. time to retire the banana hammocks and marble bags to the locker rooms of gay porn girls.

Posted at 1:41PM on Jul 29th 2006 by sean

25. Americans DO generally have hang-ups about nudity, or near-nudity. On our Aussie beaches, most permit topless and many permit total nudity. Everyone is cool with this, except when the Yanks come to visit and gawk! Wake up people... this is 2006, NOT 1906!

Posted at 1:51PM on Jul 29th 2006 by CuddflyKoalaBoy

26. When you are fit, you'll look good on speedo, but please don't put speedo on if you're not, it's disgusting

Posted at 2:29PM on Jul 29th 2006 by sherwin

27. I think that men who can "pull off the look" in speedos are inspiring! I wish that I had the bod to do it myself. Seeing those pics makes me want to hit the gym even harder, and THAT is a good thing for everyone to try!

Posted at 2:43PM on Jul 29th 2006 by Erik

28. If I had a body like those guys, I'd definitley get a speedo and wear the hell out of it!!

Posted at 3:17PM on Jul 29th 2006 by Rick

29. I didn't even realize I was gay until I saw Ricky Martin in a speedo. Now I'm livin' La Vida Loca Homosexualia! Eeho lay!

Posted at 4:49PM on Jul 29th 2006 by Lance

30. Guys wearing speedos? Some shouldn't, some should, and some should be required to!

Posted at 4:52PM on Jul 29th 2006 by Discriminating

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