# Boxers or briefs? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 17, 2014, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boxers-or-briefs/704887 "2014-11-17T19:57:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![therealyankey27](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@therealyankey27](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/therealyankey27)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boxers-or-briefs/704887/1 "2014-11-17T19:57:59Z")
I am curious as to everyone’s opinion. I’m a boxer man myself, because I hate being confined… ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boxers-or-briefs/704887/2 "2014-11-17T20:01:07Z")
Depends. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boxers-or-briefs/704887/3 "2014-11-17T20:12:08Z")
Why not split the difference, so to speak? Wear boxer briefs. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boxers-or-briefs/704887/4 "2014-11-17T21:08:55Z")
Boxers. My boys like the freedom. ---
**Author:** ![Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boxers-or-briefs/704887/5 "2014-11-17T21:19:22Z")
Briefs. I like being confined I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boxers-or-briefs/704887/6 "2014-11-17T21:32:57Z")
I was very briefly a boxer in my teens. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boxers-or-briefs/704887/7 "2014-11-17T21:35:22Z")
Neither. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boxers-or-briefs/704887/8 "2014-11-17T21:37:04Z")
Briefs: I like the support. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boxers-or-briefs/704887/9 "2014-11-17T21:40:49Z")
Cue a new Hanes ad. To go with the shirt made of kittens, briefs made of boxers. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boxers-or-briefs/704887/10 "2014-11-17T21:45:15Z")
Boxer briefs. I need to keep them corralled, it’s no fun sitting on your balls. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boxers-or-briefs/704887/11 "2014-11-17T22:01:01Z")
Briefs. They don’t bunch up in your pants and when you’re not wearing pants, you don’t run the risk of the drunken man falling out the window. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boxers-or-briefs/704887/12 "2014-11-17T22:16:29Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Why not split the difference, so to speak? Wear boxer briefs. No. You have to take a stand somewhere. Boxers. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boxers-or-briefs/704887/13 "2014-11-17T22:20:26Z")
Boxers, although I’m curious about boxer briefs, but I like that you can kind of wear boxers just as shorts around the house. ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boxers-or-briefs/704887/14 "2014-11-17T23:04:02Z")
Briefs. I don’t care so much about support. I am just annoyed by having boxers going down my legs, bunching up, twisting around… I’m getting uncomfortable just thinking about it. It’s like wearing pajamas to bed, I just can’t do it. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boxers-or-briefs/704887/15 "2014-11-17T23:08:49Z")
Briefs. My father wore boxers and I hated them. Then I discovered briefs and I love the support they give. My sons wear boxers. Maybe my grandsons (I have five and not counting) will go back to briefs. ---
**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boxers-or-briefs/704887/16 "2014-11-17T23:56:22Z")
Depend®s ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2014, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boxers-or-briefs/704887/17 "2014-11-18T00:28:38Z")
Boxers, ever since my kids were born. A whole lot more dignified to wear when you have to get up in the middle of the night to quiet them after a bad dream or whatever. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2014, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boxers-or-briefs/704887/18 "2014-11-18T00:36:43Z")
Chinese revolutionaries or long-winded legal documents? I’ll take the Harmonious Fists. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2014, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boxers-or-briefs/704887/19 "2014-11-18T00:58:29Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Why not split the difference, so to speak? Wear boxer briefs. Absolutely. The best of both worlds. ---
**Author:** ![therealyankey27](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@therealyankey27](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/therealyankey27)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2014, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boxers-or-briefs/704887/20 "2014-11-18T01:26:55Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Cue a new Hanes ad. To go with the shirt made of kittens, briefs made of boxers. Briefs made of boxers you say… I sense another great doper invention, sounds better than the PVC goat cannon! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boxers-or-briefs/704887.md?page=2)