Uta Weber asked
3 week ago

Girls, why is it socially acceptable to wear bikinis in public but not underwear?

 
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  1. It’s all about what you choose to show to other people. You buy bikini’s with the idea that all the people at the beach or pool will see them and you buy underwear only for the people you choose to show them to. That’s why it’s creepy when a guy says: but I’ve seen you in a bikini, why can’t you change in front of me

  2. Pia-Maarit says:

    Because they’re swimsuits, not delicate/intimate clothing. Although that’s subjective as well.

  3. Jannina says:

    That depends on the underwear and the bikini… lingerie is in a whole different league

  4. Izaak says:

    Context is important. If I’m in a swimsuit on the beach, everybody else is in a swimsuit as well. If I’m in my underwear in public, or in front of some random guy while changing, the entire dynamic is changed. It becomes either flirty or sexual, or a change in power leverage.

  5. Florenza says:

    Swimsuit material is much thicker than underwear.

  6. I have no idea (I’m a chick btw)

  7. Aprilette says:

    I guess if you were prepared to go out in your underwear, it would kind of be the same. You would pick your best stuff, it wouldn’t be see-through, and you would be appropriately landscaped. In real life, if a woman would just randomly have to be only in her underwear, not all those criteria may be met.

  8. DANYEL says:

    “Swim suits tend to be seen as an outfit and accentuates the female as an accessory would. It’s not so much as a “look at what Isn’t covered up” as it is “look how cute this print is on me” or “look how this print makes me look slimmer/tanner/etc”. Underwear tend to draw your eyes to the intimate parts. It’s more about “look at what I’m covering up and visualize what it is”. “

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