In regards to the controversy raging in the comments a few posts down between some high school frien

I understand the urge to be indecisive.  I’ve agonized about every major life decision I’ve ever made--where to go to school, what to do, what to stop doing, where to live, how to live it.  These things have never come easy.  I’m always staggered by the multitude of options, what it means to choose one path and have countless others forever vanish.  I’m sympathetic to those who similarly find themselves caught between two possibilities, and to not understand how to navigate between them in order to reach a firm, solid solution.

But the whole concept of boxer-briefs is just taking the whole thing to an extreme.

Women, if you hang out with someone who wears boxer-briefs, you will:

  • Always have to decide where you both go for dinner
  • Need to hang on to the remote if you ever want to watch anything
  • Wear the pants in the relationship...as well as several other garments.

  • Again, I understand indecisiveness.  I mean, I have a PC desktop and a Mac for my laptop.  But boxer-briefs takes the concept of dual platform to an extreme that I simply can’t support or condone.

    Okay… since I’m already here… I’ll ‘bring it’ like the chaperones at the school dance who start dancing first to try to encourage all the kids to dance too. Why put your self through all the anguish… I gave up underwear many years ago… and have never been happier.

    Posted by Trouble  on  03/16  at  05:15 AM

    i think boxers are the switzerland of underwear.  they take the concept of neutrality in two painful directions at once.

    still, they *look* so much nicer than y-fronts.

    Posted by romy  on  03/16  at  05:15 AM

    trouble - LOL!!
    a commando comment.  just what i needed, first thing in the morning.  wink

    Posted by romy  on  03/16  at  05:15 AM

    Boxer briefs are the most visually appealing.  Let’s look at the alternatives. I am 38.  My husband is 37.  We are no spring chickens, ok?  What do I want to see this man in?  A thong? OH HELL NO.  Tighty Whiteys? can you say grandpa? EW.  Bikinis? Yeah, when we were 20, MAYBE.  Big billowy boxers? UM, no coz my dad wore those and I DON’T want him to look like my dad, OK?  Commando? I’m not doing THAT laundry.  Boxer briefs do have a place in life when you are OLD like us.......

    Posted by princess carmen  on  03/16  at  05:26 AM

    I just wanted to let you know sir that I have just recently come across your website, and I wear boxer/briefs.  I’ll have you know that I am not the least bit indecisive.  Ok, maybe just a little indecisive, but only when it comes to important decisions.  And it’s not that I can’t pick where I want to eat, it’s that I can eat anywhere and be happy so I don’t care where we eat.  So...there.

    Posted by theMike  on  03/16  at  05:30 AM

    If only it were true.  You have no idea how hard I work at consensus decision making in my primary relationship.  I wish everything were up to me. 

    Posted by kathy  on  03/16  at  06:24 AM

    boxer briefs are a little to close to the ford Ranchero (ooh look at me! i’m a truck! i’m a car!) for me. I’m indecisive enough. My clothes need to not be.

    Posted by Jules  on  03/16  at  06:25 AM

    boxerbriefs are not about being indecisive, it’s about evaluating and selecting the best option.  boxers? no thanks to getting all scrunched up in my pants.  briefs? not enough room.  boxerbriefs, just enough freedom and comfort. 

    Posted by ford  on  03/16  at  09:25 AM

    Oh my God!  You’ve pigeon-holed me perfectly!  And it felt really good!

    Posted by Almost Lucid (Brad)  on  03/16  at  10:04 AM

    do you have strong feelings about the tankini?

    Posted by snowy  on  03/16  at  10:45 AM

    boxerbriefs are cute. asses look good in them. briefs scream pedophilia, who wants to sleep with a giant 6 year old? boxers are cool, too, but boring....

    Posted by biochiken  on  03/16  at  12:12 PM

    boxerbriefs are the SPORK of undergarments

    Posted by ed  on  03/16  at  02:07 PM

    I like the boxer briefs that are a little tight.  It’s the “lift and separate” that makes me feel all fresh and happy.  I also am not at all indecisive.  I genuinely like all kinds of food and am usually happy with whatever the wife decides.  Also I have TIVO, so if there is a question about what to watch, we watch one show and record the other.  I must also add that my wife routinely wears many garments – most times all at once.  If all this does not illustrate my pure decisive nature, I will further add that I’m writing this on my Mac and simultaneously working on my PC. 

    Posted by  on  03/16  at  02:23 PM

    See, I’m confused by a comment just made here, and not the whole boxer v. boxer brief debate.

    I would rather wash my boytoy’s pants/shorts/sweats after him going commando than the sweaty ball-hugging, poop-stained, super-tainted undergarments anyday.

    At least with commando, there’s a small bit of room to dry off and air out.

    Oh, but me - I’m a boxer-brief girl, and in any color but white.

    Posted by angie  on  03/16  at  02:53 PM

    A man once said “Walk a mile in another man’s underpants before ye judge.” That man was whisked away by security before I could really grill him, but now I think it prescient, anticipating your slanderous post.

    Greg, look: clearly, you have been wronged by men in boxer-briefs before. I cannot defend their actions. But if you knew them well enough to know their underpant preferences, I’d guess there were probably some pretty good times too. Space does not permit me to articulate a defense of boxer-briefs as spirited as they deserve; for that I direct you to Mark Wahlberg’s early 90s Calvin Klein campaign, which articulates my position more clearly than I ever could and remains the best work of his career to date.

    And yet, though we may disagree, the important thing is that you have elevated the debate from the comments section to the mainstage; for this I commend you, as it is only through spirited discourse that any nation can keep its underpants vital and alive.

    Posted by Donovan  on  03/16  at  04:00 PM

    boxer briefs are the hottest.

    that’s it.

    Posted by EV  on  03/16  at  04:53 PM

    Wahlberg’s best work?  Really? I don’t think I bought him as an underwear model.  Too much method acting.

    Posted by Greg  on  03/16  at  06:53 PM

    greg, seriously, invest in the boxer briefs.  functionable, fashionable, supportive, and really, the chicks, they dig them. 

    crotchless panties, however, THERE’S something i’m never going to understand.  really now.  what’s the point?  sure, i enjoy the extra breathing room, but i need at least a LITTLE support thank you very much. 

    Posted by the mighty jimbo  on  03/16  at  08:21 PM

    I usually just peruse here, but on this I must comment.  I sense an underlying current of Napolean syndrome present in those that feel compelled to lament boxer-briefs.  Just keeping it real.

    Posted by  on  03/16  at  08:28 PM

    wow, i’ve never been able to put my finger on why briefs are so disturbing....they do “scream pedophilia”. They are a palimpsest, with the faintest remnant of the underoo pattern still detectable....

    Posted by  on  03/17  at  07:17 AM

    I was lost in the wilderness until I discovered b/b’s. My first pair were lifted off a girlfriend. I refused to give them back. I still go commando on the occasional weekend day. 501s provide enough cuppage for my boys.

    Why, why, why do I now imagine you, Greg, in leopard-print speedo?

    Posted by Dirty Dan Sin  on  03/17  at  07:27 AM

    YEah, but which is it, Greg:  Tighty Whities or diaper-butt boxers?

    Anyway, follow Jimbo’s advice.  Boxer Briefs look hot on every dude.  f’real!

    Posted by styro  on  03/17  at  11:39 AM

    Boxer briefs may indicate a man who is indecisive (irritating? yes.) but plain briefs indicate a man who has never really grown up and who hates change. Boxers - not sure. I suppose it depends on if they’re white linen from Brooks Brothers or some freaky novelty shit with cartoons on ‘em. Of the two, I lean towards the classic.

    Posted by  on  03/17  at  01:29 PM

    Boxer/briefs are SEXY!

    Posted by kerewin  on  03/19  at  07:32 AM