Other Controversies
- A YMCA management firm has addressed thongs in dress code policy, stating (in different areas) that "thong-type wear isn't an issue." Additionally, an email from a university fitness center implied that there are safety issues ("thongs on bike seats") that would need to be addressed.
- In 2007 a man who had broken into a home wearing only a thong was sentenced to 20 years in prison for burglary and attempted rape. He pleaded "guilty but mentally ill" at the May trial and was sentenced in July.
- In 2007 the Tennessee Department of Correction banned prison visitors from wearing thong or g-string underwear. In the words of Correction Commissioner George Little, prisoners "don't need any help getting turned on."
- After the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, thousands of thongs were included in relief packages to Sri Lanka.
- During photography for Google Street View, a woman in a thong was one of the images discovered that caused consternation over the project.
- In 2005, the New York Daily News reported an incident of female United States GIs in Iraq stripping down to their thongs to participate in mud wrestling as an entertaining show.
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