Quote Originally Posted by MinniesMate View Post
The exclusion of burkini's in public pools is supposed to be for hygiene reasons. I just don't see how a speedo will make a man more hygienic than swim trunks or a two piece bathing suit would make a woman more hygienic ...

This is the argument being made:
Why the enforced parading of Frenchmen's bulges? "Hygiene," says Emmanuel Dormois, a head pool attendant in Paris's 11th arrondissement. "Small, tight trunks can only be used for swimming. Bermudas or bigger swimming shorts can be worn elsewhere all day, so could bring in sand, dust or other matter, disturbing the water quality. By banning them outright, we're not forced to stand there measuring what can be defined as swimming shorts. I accept that some men feel very ill at ease wearing small trunks, but others don't mind."

Similar reports of enforced Speedos come from traumatised English visitors to a Belgian water park where bigger swimming shorts were also banned.
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Kind of makes some sense, in a way. On the other hand, when I think of reasons to be squeamish about public pools, it has a lot more to do with sweaty sunbathers and hordes of small children with poor bladder control.