# Buying/selling used panties **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 12, 2017, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buying-selling-used-panties/793438 "2017-08-12T13:29:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2017, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buying-selling-used-panties/793438/21 "2017-08-13T13:09:29Z")
As some of the folks here know, I used to work for a porn site. For a brief time we tried this idea out. It was a bit of a failure, partly because we did it on eBay and it got shut down very quickly, and partly because it wasn’t a money-spinner and we didn’t need to, we were doing okay with regular site subscriptions. Also, for those of us involved in setting it up, it wasn’t our kink, so I don’t think we did it right. We all have our peculiarities. As long as they don’t hurt anyone\*, I don’t see the harm. \*_Obviously some kinks are all about pain, and even though those are consensual, those are the ones that I find the weirdest, if I’m honest. But to each their own._ ---
**Author:** ![UCBearcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/77aa72/32.png) [@UCBearcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UCBearcats)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2017, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buying-selling-used-panties/793438/22 "2017-08-13T15:29:01Z")
> [@TheChileanBlob](#): > > I’d totally sell my drawers if I could find a buyer who’d be interested in an old lady’s plus size drawers. How old?😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2017, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buying-selling-used-panties/793438/23 "2017-08-13T18:45:58Z")
Nobody would buy mine. My boxers got more skid marks than the Indianapolis Speedway. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2017, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buying-selling-used-panties/793438/24 "2017-08-13T19:29:55Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Never seen the appeal myself. But I hereby announce if anyone wants to buy my used underwear, I’ll sell them. To all of you ladies who kindly PMed me with inquiries: Yes, I will consider bulk discounts. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2017, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buying-selling-used-panties/793438/25 "2017-08-13T19:48:13Z")
> [@Pantastic](#): > > It’s kind of amazing to me how many people on this board are on the internet a lot but are also highly sheltered from fairly common sexual stuff. Selling used panties has been around since at least the 90s when I first heard about it, and I had no idea that in 2017 it would be news to a lot of people that it’s a thing. The internet has forever changed the meaning of “fairly common”. > [@TokyoBayer](#): > > I need to note that the reason it was a big deal in Japan in the early 90s was that it was high school girls who were supposedly selling their panties, with girls who had sailor type school uniforms as the most popular. A glance at an Internet site for selling them now shows it’s women older than high school. Isn’t that always the way it goes, though? Dynamic, young entrepreneurs identify a emerging opportunity, and some of them will build on that experience to be the established players when the market is saturated. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2017, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buying-selling-used-panties/793438/26 "2017-08-13T19:50:53Z")
I have visited Japan a couple of times now and personally never seen such a vending machine. But I do admit not looking all that hard. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buying-selling-used-panties/793438.md?page=1)