B is for Body Image

How you perceive yourself is often how others perceive you. Case in point “Banana Hammock Man,” as my 10 yr old son so eloquently refers to him.


For those of you who live in the Beach and actually GO to the beach, you may have seen him. He wears a different colour thong (yes, THONG) every time we have seen him.

Last summer was our first “sighting”. We saw him on two consecutive days. The first day it was neon orange and the second, neon green. He seemed pretty proud of himself as he strutted, adjusted and admired himself. He would often glance over at me, and any other female on the beach, to see if we were in fact noticing (or oogling) him.

Yesterday was the first real beach day of the year. There were hundreds on the beach. Amidst those hundreds, my son zoned in on “Banana Hammock Man”. This time the thong was neon blue. I can only hazard a guess as to how many are actually in his closet. This year he really is working it. He was wandering from blanket to blanket, where groups of pretty women were sitting, offering his “cheek” to be photographed. He really, in my opinion, is not “thong worthy” but he certainly flaunts it well and, because he does, he had the attention of several groups of giggling women patiently awaiting their turn for his visit to their blanket.

To those women, their Adonis had arrived.