Fusion Ponders Brazil’s Speedo Obsession

By Merrill Knox 

With the World Cup winding down in Brazil, Fusion’s Mariana van Zeller took to the beaches of Rio in search of the answer to one last important question: why do Brazilian men love their Speedos so much?

“It’s practical, it’s sexier, it dries very fast,” one woman told her. “You get a better tan line. With shorts, you’re all white,” a Speedo-wearing man responded. Watch:

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