Bringing your 5-year-old son to a wet t-shirt contest, classic or dud?

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I'm about to go for the moment, but I figured I'd leave this thread before I left and I'll explain why I posted this later on this morning. (No, I don't have a 5-year-old kid and I'm not going to a wet t-shirt contest, don't fret.)

― Ian Riese-Moraine. To Hell with you and your gradual evolution! (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 09:29 (twenty years ago)

What is the contest? See how wet you can get a T-Shirt? Are you allowed to wear towelling T-Shirts. I suppose if the water was relatively warm it would be okay. I would be worried about pneumonia otherwise for the five year old.

Do they have seperate age catagories? Cos I would imagine a big fat adult in an oversized XXXL toweling T-Shirt would beat a five year old easily.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 10:00 (twenty years ago)

I don't think it's wet T-shirt wrestling. Or maybe it is.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 10:10 (twenty years ago)

Okay, perhaps someone should look at this seriously - I think it's pretty disgusting myself.

It's like pointing out the boobs to your young son at the beach, showing a child that it's okay to ogle womens breasts.

I'm sure a lot of people with disagree with me, but women have come a long way in showing themselves as more than sex objects and to teach the next generation that that is all we are is wrong.

― Rumpie, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)

it's not saying that's *all* we are though, is it? < /obvious trolling>

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 10:56 (twenty years ago)

What if its a "pick a wet nurse for your younger brother" contest?

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 10:57 (twenty years ago)

Wait a minute, you mean people actually WEAR the wet T-shirts in these contests? I'd always wondered why there was such a fuss over them...

― $V£N! (blueski), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 11:03 (twenty years ago)

showing a child that it's okay to ogle womens breasts.

So we should be taught to be *ashamed* of such things? That's much less healthy.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 11:23 (twenty years ago)

Babies love breasts, that much I know.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 11:24 (twenty years ago)

Certainly not ashamed.

I'm going to start a campaign to desexualise breasts and resexualise calves.

Nothing to do with me having great calves and mediocre breasts at all.

― Rumpie, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 11:28 (twenty years ago)

Mark, I presume already that I don't NEED to tell you this, but there is a rather vast amount of grey area between teaching a child to be ashamed of sexuality and teaching a child to be a drooling caveman.

― Allyzay Subservient 50s-Type (allyzay), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

4 years ago the kid was probably eating from them, it's not the object it's the context.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

maybe more than 4.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

Or less than 4, in some cases...I've seen women breast-feeding children who appear to be about 3 or 4. Haha but yeah, your average 2 year old male has had far more contact with titties than your average 21 year old male in the past year, so it's not like you gotta point out teh boobies to them, they already know all about them.

― Allyzay Subservient 50s-Type (allyzay), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 12:14 (twenty years ago)

I love the idea of 2 year olds gloating to 20something males about the breast access pwnage.

― $V£N! (blueski), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 12:19 (twenty years ago)

mark, sorry, but ally's right and your talking cobblers - unless, of course, in the spirit of equal opportunities and openness, you'd be willing to take this hypothetical kid to a gay strip club immediately afterwards...

― stelfox, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

(obviously that's not a good idea, either)

― stelfox, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

i did a google image search for "baby" and this was the fist picture that came back

― The Ghost of THE GOGGLES THEY DO NOTHING (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

FIRST FIRST OH GOD TYPO FROM HELL

― The Ghost of AAAAAAH (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 12:55 (twenty years ago)

I seem to remember when I was about 9 or 10 or so seeing a wet-t-shirt contest somewhere on the south coast of Spain. It was followed by a naked-man balloon dance.

I didn't think much of it, you got to see enough tits on the beach in the day time, by the time you were there for a few days a bare breast was nothing special.

― Steve.n. (sjkirk), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 12:55 (twenty years ago)

is mark your dad?

― stelfox, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

I think there should be a wet boxershort contest so we could bring our daughters to the show and just snigger.

― nathalie doing a soft foot shuffle (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

well sure. but there are some men who would be up for that. and there would be some women who weren't sniggering.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

Your search - naked man balloon dance - did not match any documents.

Suggestions:

- Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
- Try different keywords.
- Try more general keywords.
- Try fewer keywords.

― Allyzay Subservient 50s-Type (allyzay), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

That's a shame.

― Leon Future Coffee (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 332,000 for wet-t-shirt contest. (0.30 seconds)

― Steve.n. (sjkirk), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

The bars that have wet-boxer-contests are not the sort of bars that cater to females, sniggering or otherwise, I don't believe.

― Allyzay Subservient 50s-Type (allyzay), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

I could be wrong, I haven't been to either Bell Blvd or Florida in a while.

― Allyzay Subservient 50s-Type (allyzay), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

where a wet tshirt sort of works, wet boxers are clearly wrong - they would just look like you'd pissed yourself...

― stelfox, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

I was just thinking the same thing.

― Allyzay Subservient 50s-Type (allyzay), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

great minds...

― stelfox, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

Plus, the shrinkage!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

use hot coffee, then.

― stelfox, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

Um, ow?

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

Um, guys usually don't need to maintain a wet tshirt level of modesty

― Schwip Schwap (schwip schwap), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

I'm presuming they're drunk, obv

― Schwip Schwap (schwip schwap), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

Oh heavens, I was just messin'! Rumpy sounded all "disgusted of Tumbridge Wells" for a moment, I was just doing the opposite. Of course you shouldn't expose children to a hypersexualised environment.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

Who was talking about that? Is a wet tshirt comp HYPERSEXUALISED?

― Schwip Schwap (schwip schwap), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

at what age would it be 'acceptable' i wonder?

are naturists who indulge in the practice of walking around sans clothes in front of their kids exposing them to a '(hyper)sexualised' environment? presumably this happens in many parts of the world, within different cultures.

― $V£N! (blueski), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

Schwip, whuh? What are you talking about?

Sven, whuh? A leering, aggressive crowd objectifying women can't be a good thing for small children, even though I agree, it probably won't make much difference really.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

I gotta tell you - at a recent aftershow party in the States I was taken to a strip club and I was so fucking drunk I don't remember a thing but a buddy of mine blew a ton of cash on private dances. I'm sure I saw some naked girl dance on stage but I honestly remember nothing.

― NamC.., Tuesday, 19 April 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

"it probably won't make much difference really"

I was talking about that mostly

― Schwip Schwap (schwip schwap), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

what sort of effect would a five year old boy witnessing women's nipples showing through their t-shirts due to water-induced shrinkage have on the child anyway? would they be traumatised for life? or would they just ask awkward questions like 'why are those ladies all wet?' then laugh giddily? would a five year old child even recognise whether a situation presented before them was 'sexualised'?
I was brought to such a contest in Panama City Beach during the infamous Spring Break at that age. My father and I left my mother at home with my brother (who was only two months old at the time) and travelled over to PCB to Spinnaker and neighbouring Club La Vela. I think I saw three or four of wet t-shirt contests that afternoon and I was very confused as to why my father brought me there...I felt completely out of place being amidst 500 grown men (Spinnaker! Party with thousands...of testicles!) objectifying 10 women on a platform above the centre of a pool (not that I would've known what objectification was but I definitely understood that something was rather appalling about such festivities) and it really depressed me. After one of the contests I remember that the women started parading around the pool and when one of them got to my father she flashed him in front of me and I never understood why she had so little decency that she felt she could do something like that in front of me without feeling self-conscious. (Of course, in retrospect I realise she may have been drunk.) She smiled one of those condescending "Oh-what-a-cute-little-kid!" smiles right after and waved at me, so I know she saw me. The whole spectacle was disconcerting and I remember wishing that I could have gone swimming instead (even though the water's still chilly here at that time of year) and secretly felt sulky on the return home. It wasn't traumatising to an extreme but it was definitely affecting enough to make me feel somewhat fearful of women with bleached blonde hair up until my adolescence.

even it it was people having sex in front of them, how would this affect them?
I'm not sure what I would've made of that. It probably would've been just as grotesque and carnival-esque to me as the contests were, and so I'd have stared in a very concerned/disconcerted form of intrigue.

― Ian Riese-Moraine. To Hell with you and your gradual evolution! (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

When I was 6 or 7, I found a stack of porn magazines tucked at the back of the built-in wardrobe in my bedroom. A few times I'd look at these strange magazines that made my tummy feel weird, until I was caught by either my Mom or Dad coming into my room as I was hastily shutting the wardrobe door. Next time I looked, they were gone. I remember hearing my Mom and Dad having a row downstairs that night. Specifically, I remember my hearing my Dad say "there's nothing that bad in them".

And the thought still bugs me, what the fuck was going through my Dad's head?

― mr logged out, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

Semen?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

And then he said, "Here, let me demonstrate..."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

Supposedly, friends from mine from way way way back found a video tape in a friend's parent's closet that featured the friend's mom sitting at the kitchen table, naked, CUTTING COUPONS. And the friend's dad was behind the camera saying, "C'mon, let's go!", & she said, "Not yet - I'm almost done!"

Suffice it to say that I'm happy I never saw this tape.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

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