Am I the only person who didn't know this?

Oh yes quite doable, especially with Lycra swimsuits. Give it a go!

Of course that's what you do!

The other option is a tankini, you can easily wear one as underwear on holiday.

Elaine Take heart.
I'm another one to whom it would never have occurred to pull my cozzie to the side.
Doesn't the wee go over your hands and the swimsuit?
I think the answer is to roll the wet cozzie down, rather than pull it, IYSWIM.
(See what I did there?)

I do it, it's never been a problem

Oh! That's alright if you wee straight downwards, but who does that after a few vaginal births?

Pull it far enough to one side, no wee on hands or swimsuit. Easy peasy.

Yes suzied a tankini is definitely the answer. Not sure about pulling the costume to one side though. I don't think I could do that successfully if you know what I mean

In Thailand, rural women wearing the traditional wide trousers do the same. No, I haven't tried it. Mr Bags reckons rural women wearing saris in India just stand still somewhere with legs apart. He said he used to see loads of men peeing but never a woman so that was his theory.

I mean I haven't tried it with Thai trousers. Swimsuit yes, natch.

One disadvantage of wearing my 'boyleg' costume is that I can't do the pulling aside thing. I therefore have to do the rolling down action, which does work.

Would never have occurred to me and don't think I could manage it safely. Don't often have the wet swimsuit problem (not much of a swimmer, too scared), but it's still difficult when you are hot.

I've heard of 19C women in crinolines standing still with legs apart (no knickers then) A pair of drawers, when they came in, were just that, two separate legs tied on round the waist, so they would be pullasideable.

I also heard of a 19C man (I think an author, but can't remember who) who claimed he was traumatised right into his adult life because as a boy his mother had done this while out walking somewhere with him, and the embarrassment caused him untold mental anguish! Self-obsessed little sod, giving birth to him was probably what made her need to go at once, with no public loos for women and home a long way away!

Well Elegran that's me sorted - where can I get a crinoline?

elegran I think that was Freud!

I'm a fan of the sideswipe too, but it IS a knack.

I used to do it on the regular occasions I had to wear a cossie to work having run out of clean undercrackers..

Take a shewee in your swimbag and then you won't get the wet hands problem. Putting it less delicately, side swipe and shewee shove does the trick

That explains Freud's theory that all women suffered from penis envy, gettingonabit but I bet it would never have occurred to him that it was for peeing, not for sex.

I go swimming regularly and I also sideswipe - have never had a problem.

I was always taught to go before I put on my costume and went swimming. Then I don't like sitting around in a wet costume anyway. If it isn't warm enough to dry my costume in less than half an hour I would be stripping it off anyway. If it's dry it doesn't really matter. Sorry but your friend might be a bit whiffy if she had been a couple of times and dribbled a bit.

I swim 2/3 times a week,never occurred to me to do this,must try next time lol.

Not the same thing I know but, when I've had a sauna I find it so difficult to put my dry clothes back on again no matter how much I seem to have dried myself. What is there about clothes and slightly damp skin ? Struggled for ages the other day with trying to put a stretchy bra type top on the other day; pretty much had to wrestle with it.

My grandma taught me that in the 50s

Make sure you get loo paper ready before you start!

Never considered doing it any other way!