Since there has been observation on this forum that most younger female (not male) swimmers at Nationals wore non-tech suits (the 18-24 and 25-29 groups), I'm curious as to why.
Anyone of that younger group look at this board and care to post reasons? Cost? Controversy over "authenticity" of times when fastest suits are banned? Desire to look hot for guys, as one poster suggests?
The male preoccupation/fear of somehow being contaminated by another guy's "boys" is amusing to me. Especially in a suit that spends all its time in chlorinated water.
What exactly is the nature of "boys"phobia?
Rich, if Natalie Coughlin or Amanda Beard offered you the opportunity, totally in the privacy of your own home, to put on their thoroughly chlorinated bikini brief bottoms--assuming these would fit--would you be tempted to do so, or be disgusted by the prospect? Or Pamela Lee Anderson, assuming she is being treated with penicillin for whatever Tommy Lee gave her? Would you be even remotely tempted to don her hip huggers?
Be honest here.
I personally would love to wear Amanda Beard's suit, though I know I couldn't fit into it. But perhaps "girls"philia is a different form of illness from "boys"phobia.
PS When I interviewed Dara Torres, I begged her to give me one of her old LZRs, but she wouldn't claiming I wouldn't fit. Probably some weird contractual arrangement with Speedo.
The male preoccupation/fear of somehow being contaminated by another guy's "boys" is amusing to me. Especially in a suit that spends all its time in chlorinated water.
What exactly is the nature of "boys"phobia?
Rich, if Natalie Coughlin or Amanda Beard offered you the opportunity, totally in the privacy of your own home, to put on their thoroughly chlorinated bikini brief bottoms--assuming these would fit--would you be tempted to do so, or be disgusted by the prospect? Or Pamela Lee Anderson, assuming she is being treated with penicillin for whatever Tommy Lee gave her? Would you be even remotely tempted to don her hip huggers?
Be honest here.
I personally would love to wear Amanda Beard's suit, though I know I couldn't fit into it. But perhaps "girls"philia is a different form of illness from "boys"phobia.
PS When I interviewed Dara Torres, I begged her to give me one of her old LZRs, but she wouldn't claiming I wouldn't fit. Probably some weird contractual arrangement with Speedo.
