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Community Conversation => Female to male transsexual talk (FTM) => Transsexual talk => FTM Gear => Topic started by: bprot on June 14, 2016, 06:17:52 PM

Title: Binder and swimming
Post by: bprot on June 14, 2016, 06:17:52 PM
I'm going to an end of the school year party with a bunch of friends and we'll be swimming. I was wondering if swimming while wearing a binder will harm the binder itself. I have a half from gc2b.
Title: Re: Binder and swimming
Post by: FTMax on June 14, 2016, 06:28:49 PM
Should be fine. Wash it out as soon as you can afterwards to get out any chlorine or sand, then let it air dry.
Title: Re: Binder and swimming
Post by: bprot on June 14, 2016, 06:33:20 PM
Quote from: FTMax on June 14, 2016, 06:28:49 PM
Should be fine. Wash it out as soon as you can afterwards to get out any chlorine or sand, then let it air dry.

Thank you!
Title: Re: Binder and swimming
Post by: FtMitch on June 16, 2016, 11:39:10 PM
It will definitely be fine.  I swim in my GC2B all the time.  I don't even wash the thing out afterward (I'm as lazy as heck), and it's just fine.  I usually wash it long after it's dried, and it comes out of the laundry the same as before.  (I would wash it immediately if it was ocean water, because as a SCUBA diver I know how NASTY anything that's been in ocean water smells as it dries--thank you microscopic ocean creatures!)