Typically, athletes don’t slip into their Speedos to head for the ice. But that’s what will happen at the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, as U.S. sledding and sliding competitors go for the gold. Los ...

1. What did men swim in, historically? Survey Greek urns or Roman frescoes and the answer is clear—throughout antiquity, men went swimming in the nude. As with many moves toward prudishness, the ...

“What is this?” the kid asks, packing his suitcase. “It’s a Speedo,” his mother says. “It’s a kind of swimming suit.” “We wear swimming trunks in this country,” the kid says. “Why do we have to wear a ...

While speedos may finally be going mainstream in America, the garment remains polarizing. Ingrained cultural conservatism has turned the speedo into a statement, and some aren’t down with that. Others ...