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I know this is kinda personal but I have a beach trip coming up and I really wanna go swimming so I was wondering if I could get some tips, for hiding, well you know! don't make me say it! thanks in advance!

your penis?

Duct tape?

This thread has some information on beachwear. Also, you might google "tucking" or search glife for instructions, in case you've never done a tuck before. Beachwear can be quite a challenge. Good luck and have fun!

- j

I hope the public appreciates all this wonderful information here in the public arena. Now we will create a whole new group of beach lookers - lol.
Does anybody really care? I think it will be funny.

Swim trunks and a bathing suit bra. You can get a bikini suit and wear the bottom half underneath the swim trunks to keep your extra pieces from flopping around in front if you like.

You could always go with a skirt bottomed one piece, that's what i bought to swim in. But since the Orchi I will use some med tape to hide the worm when its not hiding out! No way would I ever use duct tape in that area. OUCH!!!

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Try these.

I have a two piece suit with a little skirt on the bottom and a halter top that I bought at Target. Works great for me. I also bought a takini top when I want to be a little more modest.

A few things to think about when selecting a swimsuit:

For the top, if you have breast forms, you need to select a top made for breast cancer patients with mastectomies. Normal tops either won't hold your forms in place resulting in an embarrassing floating form a few minutes into your swim. Also, non mastectomy tops will either be cut too low on the chest or too high at the armpit which can cause problems. (no cleavage, anyone?)

For the bottom, you need something that will hide your penis if you are pre- or non-operative. Do not use a bikini bottom or similar! As much as tucking might work on land the combination of heavy activity, the water, and the swimsuit's construction will make it almost impossible to maintain a proper tuck.

Skirt suits seem to be pretty popular for transwomen. A couple things to remember about them, however is that they, like bikinis and one-piece suits, highlight your lack of curves and that they aren't particularly popular with anyone but my grandmother and transsexuals. Especially if you are stealth a skirt suit on a young person can paint a bright red "I'm a transsexual" on your back to anyone who knows anything about transsexuals.

I'm not saying that skirt-suits are wrong for everyone, I'm just saying that they have their drawbacks.

Probably the best bottom wear are women's swim trunks or "surfer shorts" over a bikini. The bikini holds your junk in check and prevents exposure when the trunks fall off while swimming while the trunks hide your stuff while on land and provide subtle cues that make your hips seem more womanly.

Don't worry about your trunks slipping off when you are in the water. Even a half ass tuck, once underwater, would be hard to spot and nobody is going to berate you for wearing something underneath a loose garment.

Of course, if you're post operative or have naturally full-sized breasts then the best way to go would be with the standard low cut top and skin tight crotch. As they say "the proof is in the pudding" so if anyone thinks you're "really a man" all they have to do is look at your not-man anatomy.

Excellent advice Samantha and I agree about the skirted one piece suits. In my area, the skirted bikini bottoms are pretty popular with the soccer mom crowd, a crowd I try to blend into.

Age 30-45, in shape. They want to show off up top and the fact they have abs of steel. They have great legs. The one area they feel uncomfortable with is the little bit of sag in the tushy, which the skirt hides. Just my $.02 .

Yes, if you're 30-45 then a two piece skirt suit makes a lot of since.

Another thing I should mention about bathing suits. If you're a little bit out of shape (or a lot out of shape), because you have male fat distributions, at least to some degree, a shorts suit can help a lot.

Consider, a skirt suit can't really be paired with a loose fitting bathing top. You can get shorts suits that have loose fitting tops as part of the outfit and that's good for hiding your "interesting" spare tire to junk in the trunk ratio.

Beach wear wear up in this neck of the woods....

This is what a beach looks like near my home:

Yay! Trains! Choo Choo!

I'm kinda lucky in the bum department, nice firm, round, butt. It's just a good bit bigger than I'd like. (Yeah, I know, shut up!) Anyway, the rest of me is a bit to big too... I got a really nice Speedo one peace with built in stealth features... Compression panels in the front to mimimize my... Middle? Radar jamming to keep me off the Japansese fleet's radar, and a band of color from the bottom of my bust up that basically says "LOOK AT THESE" which I swore I'd never do, but I look good in it... I just at times want to put a sign on my chest that says "Hi, I'm up here" with an arrow that points to my face...

Works out really well. So much so that the first time I wore it to the beach I had a surfer trying to convince my breasts they wanted to learn to surf, and then get some dinner... He was like 20... Amazed when he found out I was older than his mother... I said so unless you have a thing about dating someone's Mom, I'll pass...

"Well, you know there's something to said for MILF!"

I didn't know if I wanted to kiss him, or punch him in the mouth... SO bizarre!

If you have smaller breasts you can get a push-up bikini top. And for a bottom you can get a size too small bikini bottom. You may even wanna try 2 sizes too small. Side-tying string bikinis work well because you can get it very snug.

Also consider the print and color of the suit. Stripes will take the eye away from any axtra flesh in the bikini area. Horizontal stripes.

In case someone hasn't figured it out yet: that advice works very well for normal underwear too. If you wear two pairs of underwear at a time (one on top of the other) they will last much longer.

Wheee! Off topic! Just thought I should mention that, feel free to ignore me.

Why in the name of all that's holy would you want to wear TWO pair of underwear? That doesn't make a cup of sense to me. Then again, I'm usually two dimes short of a nickle anyway...

If you wear two pairs of underwear it stretches less. The inside pair of underwear holds the stuff back while the outside pair takes some of the stress off of the inside underwear.

Hey, it works for me! I used to go though way more underwear than I do now.

Okay, I'm kinda sorry I asked now... If it works for you, rock on girl, more power to you! Me, I just buy new underwear when it gets old and stretched out. Just went out an bought a whole bunch of new socks and underwear for exactly that reason... Took great pleasure in washing and chucking the old stuff.

It doesn't get old and nasty! Geez! It keeps them in that minty fresh just-out-of-the-package state for much longer. I'm on a strict budget, I can't allow my things to get worn out!

Note: Samantha does not endorse trying to exploit the "minty freshness" of used panties and exonerates herself from any liability that might arise from such practice.