bikinis

I've just gotten back home after my 1:15 exam and am now in the back garden out in the sunshine. Of course, I've brought some physics revision for the exam tomorrow with me but no intentions of revising. It's more there so I have the option to work if I get bored and so I don't feel bad since I will probably, maybe, at some point work.

With the sun in full force, an empty house and empty opposite-my-garden-garden I've taken off my tshirt and bra straps to tan without the tan lines. It's just made me think about bikinis though. I very breifly considered lugging myself up to change but since no one can see me I decided not to bother. There's one thing I don't understand: why are bikini's acceptable to be worn in public but underwear isn't? Are they not essentially the same thing? And in some cases, underwear actually covers more than a bikini would. Why has society decided that showing underwear is taboo but wearing skimpy bikinis are acceptable?

However, even though I question this I do have to say I agree. For some strange reason, I would feel extremely self consious if someone saw my in just my pants and bra but I would, for the most part, be fine with someone seeing me in a bikini, even though my bikinis cover less skin. It could just be because of the way society has conditioned me to think and chances are a lot of people feel the same.