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[ 2023 ] New Thong Law. Myrtle Beach, SC

pedro47

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This is sad effective May 1, 2023. Thong cannot be warn on Myrtle Beach beaches.
Today, this was reported on a local MB television station.
 
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They wear tongs on Myrtle Beach?

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Never mind, I looked it up - you mean "thong" style swimsuite.
 
Didn't know this was a big ennough problem to create a law against it.
 
Haha - I see what you did there!
 
Anyone watching Keri Russell in The Diplomat? Interesting slang for thong underwear.
 
I’m going to have to look for my receipt. Hopefully, I will be able to return my thong for a full refund.
 
And here in my home city, women can legally go topless anywhere...

Kurt
 
pedro47 said:
This is sad effective May 1, 2023. Thong cannot be warn on Myrtle Beach beaches.
Today, this was reported on a local MB television station.
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I guess there goes the business of warning people about the presence of thongs at Myrtle Beach.

OTOH this might be a good thing. . .
 
We've stayed at number of beach resorts and I can definitely understand and have seen why they'd do that. Myrtle Beach is very much a family vacation destination.
 
I still wear thongs! They better not arrest me:
People in the New York metropolitan region referred to flipflops as "thongs" in the 1960s and early 1970s. The move to the phrase "flip-flops" began in the early to mid-1970s, with thong being the term for a bikini bottom with limited coverage over the derriere area.
I was a New York aka Queens girl then!
 
To be fair, they should also ban speedos.
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This isn't a new law. Thong bikinis have been banned in Myrtle Beach since the early 1990s.

1993 to be exact:

The city's current indecent exposure ordinance was approved in 1993.
Sec. 14-83. Indecent exposure (NOTE: This law makes the wearing of "thong" bathing suits and similar clothing illegal in public, including on the beach.):
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to intentionally appear in any public place in such a state of dress or undress so as to expose to the view of others the human male or female genitals, pubic area, pubic hair, buttocks, anus, vulva or any portion of the female breast at or below the areola thereof.
(b) Upon determination that any person is in violation of this section, a police officer shall issue a warning to the offending person and afford that person an opportunity to properly cover himself or herself or leave the public place. If the offending person does not immediately and appropriately respond to the warning, he or she shall be charged with a violation of this Code.
(c) For the purpose of this section only, establishments within which regulated adult businesses are permitted as provided by the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Myrtle Beach, are not considered to be public places.
(Ord. No. 93-33, 7-27-93)
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beejaybeeohio said:
I still wear thongs! They better not arrest me:
People in the New York metropolitan region referred to flipflops as "thongs" in the 1960s and early 1970s. The move to the phrase "flip-flops" began in the early to mid-1970s, with thong being the term for a bikini bottom with limited coverage over the derriere area.
I was a New York aka Queens girl then!
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They were thong (sandals) to us in New Orleans, too. I didn’t even know about the bathing suits until many years later and was very confused by disparaging remarks about people wearing thongs!
 
beejaybeeohio said:
I still wear thongs! They better not arrest me:
People in the New York metropolitan region referred to flipflops as "thongs" in the 1960s and early 1970s. The move to the phrase "flip-flops" began in the early to mid-1970s, with thong being the term for a bikini bottom with limited coverage over the derriere area.
I was a New York aka Queens girl then!
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I grew up in Hawaii, so"flip-flops" (or thongs to you) will always be slippers to me, not to be confused with the fuzzy type worn in the home or spa.
 
TheHolleys87 said:
They were thong (sandals) to us in New Orleans, too. I didn’t even know about the bathing suits until many years later and was very confused by disparaging remarks about people wearing thongs!
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When I was a kid (1960s Los Angeles) we called them “goheads” which was a sloppy version of go-aheads. Less often they were referred to as Xxx-slaps, even by the Asian kids in our heavily Japanese immigrant area. I must have still been using goheads when I met Cliff forty years ago because he heard “goat heads”, which I adopted for a while. Flip flops is our current preference.
 
beejaybeeohio said:
I still wear thongs! They better not arrest me:
People in the New York metropolitan region referred to flipflops as "thongs" in the 1960s and early 1970s. The move to the phrase "flip-flops" began in the early to mid-1970s, with thong being the term for a bikini bottom with limited coverage over the derriere area.
I was a New York aka Queens girl then!
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My son has always called them "thong flops" which I always found hilarious... it's been stuck in my head for decades now
 
jwalk03 said:
This isn't a new law. Thong bikinis have been banned in Myrtle Beach since the early 1990s.

1993 to be exact:

The city's current indecent exposure ordinance was approved in 1993.
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I couldn't find any new news articles about this. The only reference I found was in this, very sparse, article. Perhaps May 1 is just when they really start to enforce the law?
 
dioxide45 said:
I couldn't find any new news articles about this. The only reference I found was in this, very sparse, article. Perhaps May 1 is just when they really start to enforce the law?
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I'm guessing that shoddy article is where the story came from, but I am fairly certain they enforce the law year round. (Though I'm sure its more of an issue during the busier tourist season in the summer.)
 
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