Talk:G-string

message: ===G-String===
G-String short for "genital string"? It sounds highly unlikely to me.
No. It is named g-string beacause of the thickness of the back is about as thick a G string on a cello. The Republican 16:53, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: This theory has been discounted. -Willmcw 21:44, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

text: I'm not sure that the wording is optimal, but this is a very commonly used nickname. The maturity of those who use the term is probably comparable to those who wear them, so that's a moot point. Maybe the best way to handle this is to have a sentence listing some common nicknames. Cheers, -Willmcw 21:12, May 26, 2005 (UTC)
Here in Brazil it is usually called fio dental - literally dental floss, but I've never heard anything like "butt floss". - Stormwatch 00:28, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Uhm, NO! Butt floss is when you take a towel, and rub it between your legs and ass, to literally floss your butt. Butt floss is an ACTION, not some piece of clothing.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.0.33.37 (talk) 08:07, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Naming

message: G-String short for "genital string"? It sounds highly unlikely to me.
No. It is named g-string beacause of the thickness of the back is about as thick a G string on a cello. The Republican 16:53, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: This theory has been discounted. -Willmcw 21:44, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: G-String

message: It is sometimes disparagingly called butt floss, referring to its tendency to slide between the buttocks like dental floss between the teeth.
Really classy.
(above comment by some somone who didnt sign (and was an ip address any
:I'm not sure that the wording is optimal, but this is a very commonly used nickname. The maturity of those who use the term is probably comparable to those who wear them, so that's a moot point. Maybe the best way to handle this is to have a sentence listing some common nicknames. Cheers, -Willmcw 21:12, May 26, 2005 (UTC)
Here in Brazil it is usually called fio dental - literally dental floss, but I've never heard anything like "butt floss". - Stormwatch 00:28, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Uhm, NO! Butt floss is when you take a towel, and rub it between your legs and ass, to literally floss your butt. Butt floss is an ACTION, not some piece of clothing.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.0.33.37 (talk) 08:07, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Butt Floss

message: its called a t-back all over asia. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 89.241.226.33 (talk) 22:16, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "t-back" all over asia 

message: I've read (in Bill Bryson's Made in America) that g-string probably comes from an American native term geestring, which was the name of the loincloth or possibly the strings holding them up.
g-string from the violin is almost certainly a back-formation.
*Does Bryson give any source for this assertion? Which language does it come from? Paul Tracy 13:05, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  g-string etemology 

message: Is the assertion that wearing a thong is linked to contracting UTI's (as compared with other underwear styles) an established fact or a speculation?  Is there a reference for this?  I did a pubmed search for "thong" and "urinary tract infection" (and alternately, "cystitis"), and didn't find anything.FelineAvenger 21:46, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Thongs linked with urinary tract infection?

message: Seems that this article has been moved around quite a lot. The present name "G String" is not properly capitolized, and there seem to be other reasonable names:
*G-string
*Thong (garment)
*G string
What is the most common name for this item? -- Netoholic @ 17:03, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proper article name 

message: I'm seeing more sexualization of Wikipedia here.  Compare the male photo to the female photo.  The male photo is small and blurry.  The female photo is large and clear.  Coincidence?  I think not... -65.161.247.10 22:15, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Then go out and take some better pictures. Cheers, -Will Beback 00:41, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

text: Clearly you aren't aware of the couples who take pictures/videos of each other, or of themselves having sex, and post them on the Internet. They don't seem to mind... Hbackman 23:41, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

text: So because the image of the woman in the g-string is a clear, better quality photo makes it more sexual than the photo of the male in one? It seems perfectly fine to me, I see nothing sexual about that image (besides the fact that it is a g-string, which is what this article is about, read this) Also, about the male g-string photo. It's not very often that I see a male in a g-string, so if you can find/take a better quality photo of one, by all means replace it. --Code E 17:47, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unfair photos 

message: What's the point for this source?
should be deleated?--Pixel ;-) 10:19, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  nice link number 9 

message: Why? Because FAR more users of the g-string are women.--Greasysteve13 09:24, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The photo should be of a woman 

message: User:Mike39 would like to replace the images in this article with two that he took.  Twice he's done this and twice I've reverted the changes, because his are both of women (currently we have one man and one woman, with the woman's picture featured much more prominently) and I believe them to be lower quality than the ones we have now.  He says on his talk page, "Yes, I do believe that my pictures are better than those on right now. They are good image quality and they show the thong much better. They are also more attractive than those on right now."  I continue to disagree.  Can anyone else chime in? --Strait 20:30, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Mike39's images do not show the subject (G-string) half as well as the existing female image.  Guy 21:24, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  New images? 

message: The photo for this is sort of disturbing, and perhaps unnecessarily graphic. Is it really necessary to bend over like that?! 86.20.197.247 (talk) 09:59, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  C String 

message: From near the end of the article:
"so-called straight male populations"
Why "so-called"?  Is there not a demographic that can be described as heterosexual and male?
Sdr 17:38, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Bloody hetrophobes.  :( Jachin 06:50, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  necessary wording? 

message: What about all the different types of G-string/thongs?
:I corrected one nomenclature error in relation to 'the difference between' a G-String and a thong earlier.  The prior author claimed a thong had a V back and a G-string had a T.  What they were refering to is a V-string, a derivative of the G-string. Jachin 06:55, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: ACK. For my understanding, a V-String is a derivative of a G-String, with the fork much belower, so it looks like a V, but consists of strings only at back-side. A thong (or in european terms a tanga), should have a triangle behind. -- Test-tools 10:15, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: V-String is terminology used by Victoria's Secret to refer to G-Strings. If you look at their web site, you'll see they don't carry ANY G-Strings, just "V-Strings", and not all of which have a triangular rear. The term seems to be a brand (although it's unclear to me if they've trademarked it), and probably should be removed from this article. Appears to me that most vendors call the type with a triangular rear (and usually a narrow strip of cloth rather than a string) a thong. FelineAvenger 16:54, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Nomenclature

message: People please don't remov the evidenced claims because you don't like them.  Wikipedia is about free honest information even if you don't like it.
Update:  Evdence has been provided for the claims(May 2006).
Sources have been provided: Hulk Hugan has been seen in a thong on the reality show Hogan Knows Best (check In VH1's Hogan Knows Best 2 - "Twilight of a God").  A news link has been included in the article citing Morgan Freeman Use of thongs  Here is a link to the news article: .
Removed from the article (for now):
:Also G-strings are very popular with male wrestlers like Hulk Hogan because they don't produce visible brief lines under their wrestling outfits.  Also some male actors like Morgan Freeman have admitted to use thongs.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I'm prepared to believe this could be true, but a source is necessary for things like this I think. Soo 22:54, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Extraordinary claims

message: The main drawback to G-string underwear is that the fabric must be pulled directly between one's buttocks, which many people find unattractive and/or uncomfortable, but which others enjoy. Wearing the same G-string for a prolonged period of time is considered unsanitary, just like any other underwear.
Isn't the last sentence obvious and out of context?
:The entire paragraph is unsourced and unverifiable. -Will Beback 01:33, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Out of context 

message: *In this link  you see a page from a World war II manual training American GIs how to discern Japanese men from other Asian men.  In it, the G-String is referred to as a "Grouch Bag".
That's an interesting, if perhaps racist, reference. However I don't think it tells us anything useful about this topic. A "grouch bag" is a small purse worn around the neck or waist. The initial "g" is a coincidence. I don't think that a wartime guide for soldiers like this is a suitable source for an assertion that Japanese soldiers in WWII sewed pockets into their G-strings to hide weapons. -Will Beback 07:34, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grouch bag 

message: I thought thongs were first used in Europe and North-america by male ballet dancers, because they wear thin and sticky pants ? That sounded logical to me, but got no reference. Do anyone knows about this ? Kekel 12:54, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: The article contains large amounts of info and opinion that is unsourced. More sources need to be added, especially with regards to the attitudes section that present opinions using weasel words. Op ions such as "in some conservative circles any woman ever spotted in a G-string is 'branded' a slut for life." should be sourced. --Cab88 20:52, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article sources 

message: At the moment in the article, it states "worn by both Women and Men" and the removal of "worm predominantly by women, but also some men" was pushing a POV. Thongs and G-Strings are viewed as female underwear and in any event, they ARE worm predominantly by females.
Whatevever the male's on this site wear, it doesn't change the fact that the statement "predominantly by women but also some men" is factual and should NOT be removed, otherwise it is pushing a point of view, which last time I checked, wasn't allowed. --84.68.49.114
:Agree. --Strait 22:18, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Seconded. Mightywayne 13:26, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Factual? Where's the source? I think it would be correct to say that g-strings and things are worn by both men and women, but unless we have verifiable data I don't see how we can assert the popularity of one over the other, worldwide. Perhaps for certain markets, like the U.S., we could say that more women's thongs are soldthan men's, if we had such info. -Will Beback · † · 19:24, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well then, where's the source that says thongs ARE worn predominantly by women? Hmm?! Mightywayne 02:38, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Precisely. We don't have sources for these assertions. -Will Beback · † · 05:41, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Also, they are fairly popular in European countries. And Asian, I think. 131.109.10.242 14:41, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thongs/G-Strings are predominantly worn by Females! 

message: Those links do not validate anything. The Sly Stallone one actually sounds like a joke than fact. And the Morgan Freeman one does not work.
:Removed.  You should be bold and edit things yourself when you find errors. --Strait 03:44, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Claim that Stallone & Freeman use thongs 

message: There is a good quality photo of a man wearing a thong at the Commons that would probably be a good replacement image for the copyvio one. The uploader has an established track record of submitting PD-Self-Made images and videos that are currently being used on multiple wikis. It has a Hi-Res version, and it would balance out the photos - 2 female and 2 male. What do you think ?
Here it is 
That is a good image, but one, it is technically a thong and should go in the thong article, which does need a picture in the men's thong section.  But first, you might want to get a version that isn't so dark.G1 JOE113 (talk) 21:46, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible image to replace copyvio image 

message: This is just the worthless opinion of from a nameless ip-number, but I believe this article is in some parts very confusing, and actually seems to contradict itself at times. Example:
In the paragraph about the recent commercialisation, it mentions that "... sales results show that the thong underwear for everday wear is now considered outdated". Yet, pretty much the rest of this paragraph argues for how very popular this style of underwear have become.
Also, one thing I've found rather disturbing, is that the article claims that lack of a visible panty-line "makes for a more attractive appearance", as if this would be a absolute truth. 85.225.25.6 23:17, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The article 

message: Thought I'd post it here as it meant restoring a large section of uncertain quality that's been missing for nearly a month. This diff should explain it (it's the 3rd visible edit in this group). Orderinchaos 10:15, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Undid vandalism 

message: Does anyone know how this type of string is called?
http://img63.imageshack.us/my.php?image=stringux3.jpg
I've already researched but i didn't find out. Some how knows may tell us and edit this article. 80.121.47.148 14:44, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: A "Y-string"? Or an extreme variant of the "V-string"? Aditya(talk • contribs) 07:22, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another type of string 

message: I see a bit of confusion on the difference between a thong and a G-string, which is more manifest in the area of their classification. I believe a thong is a panty-front and a G-string is a skimpy from of thong. But, apparently it may not be that simple. Therefore I started a discussion thread at WikiProject Fashion. Please, take a look. Aditya(talk • contribs) 07:19, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree on the lack of a distinction between a thong and a G-string in this G-string article.  Unless a clear case can be made for a G-string as other than a type of thong, then I feel that the G-string article should be merged into the existing G-string section of the thong article.Penelope Gordon (talk) 20:22, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thong versus G-string 

message: Quite a few internet copycats suggest version that geesting might be an abbreviation to "girdlestring". Well, it looks like this is bull... er... an internet phenomenon. A Straight Dope article dated by 1980, by Cecil Adams, mentioned this hypothesis, but sadly said that to his knowledge there was no such word. So I guess, Adams gave birth to it :-) ( or his knowledge was limited )-: `'Míkka>t 05:09, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "[[Girdle]] string" theory. 

message: There has been lots of vandalism on this article. Should we change the protection level? Somebody500 (talk) 03:58, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism 

message: "The doe-skin, he fashioned into a loin cloth, the rope he looped over one shoulder, and the knife he thrust into the belt formed by his gee string." and "Korak, The Killer, fondled his heavy spear. He played with the grass rope dangling from his gee-string." doesn't refer to a garment. The writer uses the word gee string to mean a thin chord, the a common meaning for gee string (see: Oxford dictionary entry). Aditya(talk • contribs) 09:24, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Looking at some of Burroughs work I can see that a gee string could be a cord around the waist. However, I can't find any sources for this period which confirm that usage. If we can find any evidence then we will probably need to include some text explaining that the meaning has changed over time. - Polly Tunnel (talk) 16:28, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edgar Rice Burroughs 

message: To prevent an "image overkill" one "informative image" is enough that demonstrates with descriptive label that the G-string is designed to be worn by "both men and women" not just. Also left note on talk page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.25.2.89 (talk) 02:34, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Both of those images are of poorer quality than the one that was there before. In addition to being overly complicated and unflattering to the point of distraction, they include pointless hard-coded watermark captions. If you would like to propose a more gender-neutral replacement, please do so here on the talk page. Grayfell (talk) 02:40, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Added missing references confirming G-string is designed for both Men and Women to wear as underwear and swimwear and removed hard-coded watermark captioned image gender-neutral. 82.25.2.89 (talk) 03:08, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Again, both of those images are terrible quality, and neither of those sources are reliable. One is just spam and the other is a blog. Wikipedia doesn't accept those as sources. Propose changes on the talk page first. Grayfell (talk) 03:35, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  One descriptive image to prevent image overkill