Boxers versus Briefs

I kept waiting and waiting for someone to bring this up for either the discussion board posts, or on the open forum, but obviously no one else is brave enough to start this thread.

I don’t know what incites mothers to start their baby boys off with briefs, but I feel like that is how it always works out. Maybe it is because babies start off wearing diapers, so the next level up is diapers that you can’t poop in, a.k.a. briefs (same fit, different concept). Anyway, I don’t know what the rest of you remember, but back in middle school, it suddenly became cool to wear boxers. To give you a reference point, remember back in middleish school when pants that could barely hang on to your ass were popular? Now that I look back, the whole point of that “look” was to show off your cool boxers! I mean, you would look pretty reidiculous if you had baggy pants and..oops! briefs showing when your shirt rode up. If you wanted to buy oversized shorts/jeans, you had to have boxers to “cover your assets.” My mom always used to say that boxers were for “old men,” but that obviously didn’t deter me from wanting to be popular, so I kept bugging her until I finally gave up and bought American Eagle boxers with my own money. Boxers are a unique form of self-expression. There are so many designs to choose from! The way I see it, there are three kinds of boxer prints. #1: The “naked lady silhouette” prints. There is nothing more self-satisfying for a pre-pubescent kid, than knowing that his “downstairs” is being protected by ladies in phallic poses. #2: Totally pointless prints. Holiday themed prints (say NO to Saint Patrick ’s Day clovers/leprechauns), beer logos and sports logos prints are so juvenile! They can only be worn once a year, unless you aren’t afraid to look like a dork. #3: Classy plaids and stripes. I think my mom was thinking of plaid when she said that boxers are for "old men." Idk I always thought plaids/stripes were the best prints. When you think about it, it is funny how we start off wearing diapers as babies before we transition to briefs, then boxers/boxerbriefs, etc. until we are old and cannot control our bowel movements and have to start wearing diapers again!


Nowadays, the argument is more like, "Which do you prefer: boxers, tighty whities, boxerbriefs, low cut briefs, colorful briefs...(and, for non-traditional crowds) bikini cut, thongs for men, "free bird," etc. etc. etc." (Let's just say I'm not the adventurous type.) Sorry if any one out there likes them white, but if you're gonna wear white briefs, remember how many characters, fictional or not, who have been mega-wedgied and left to hang on fenceposts or door knobs. Maybe I'm being delusional, but it seems like it is more acceptable for guys to wear whatever. Someone started making boardshorts shorter so maybe boxers will be next.