# Boxers and sperm motility

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boxers-and-sperm-motility/3893>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 12, 1999, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boxers-and-sperm-motility/3893 "1999-10-12T22:38:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 1999, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boxers-and-sperm-motility/3893/1 "1999-10-12T22:38:00Z")

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I suspect these has been covered–I got a large number of hits searching the board, but they were understandable, of course.

Can someone please point me to any serious studies on the correlation between type of underwear and sperm motility? Will wearing boxers help my little soldiers reach my wife’s Omaha Beach?

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“Listen Children Eternal Father Eternally One!” Exceptions? None!  
-Doc Bronner

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**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 1999, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boxers-and-sperm-motility/3893/2 "1999-10-12T22:55:00Z")

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Funny you should ask. This very day, the news is reporting that the previously held belief that the tighty-whities may endanger the assult is not founded. [http://www.onhealth.com/ch1/briefs/item,25893.asp](http://www.onhealth.com/ch1/briefs/item,25893.asp) . So I guess Nickrz can wear his briefs in peace.

## The study came from the Journal of Urology, and doubtless makes fascinating reading. Didn’t care to look for the article my self, but [Here’s their homepage](http://www.wwilkins.com/urology).

Livin’ on Tums, Vitamin E and Rogaine

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**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 1999, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boxers-and-sperm-motility/3893/3 "1999-10-13T23:11:00Z")

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Thanks Manhattan–you’re my hero.

I’m back to briefs, dammit.

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**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 1999, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boxers-and-sperm-motility/3893/4 "1999-10-13T23:25:00Z")

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Good luck. Here’re some words for the troops:

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> Semen of the Andros Expeditionary Force:
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> You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which you have striven these many months.  
> The eyes of the world are upon you.  
> The hope and prayers of baby-loving people everywhere are with you…

manhattan Eisenhower, October 13, 1999

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Livin’ on Tums, Vitamin E and Rogaine

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**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 1999, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boxers-and-sperm-motility/3893/5 "1999-10-14T02:54:00Z")

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I guess I don’t have to bother Cecil with this anymore. What do you call a myth that doctors tell for no good reason, only to back out eventually? Medical myth?