# Do you think a normal guy would ever wear women's undies ? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 8, 2004, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200 "2004-06-08T00:15:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [June 8, 2004, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200/41 "2004-06-08T19:38:01Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > It wouldn’t be right to dress as June Cleaver and wear your boxers under the dress. Well, how do you know she didn’t? :dubious: I’ve worn panty hose as part of a costume (dressed up as a satyr…). Don’t know if that counts. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2004, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200/42 "2004-06-08T19:44:11Z")
During High School football practice I pulled a groin and had to wear a girdle to help restrict movement during Saturday’s playoff game. Nothing like being the one guy on the field out of twenty two that’s sportin’ a pear shaped ass. ---
**Author:** ![chula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a4c791/32.png) [@chula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chula)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2004, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200/43 "2004-06-08T20:01:46Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > **Robin73** : Punishing a boy by making him dress up in girl clothes is sick. I can’t believe you were the only person to point this out. ---
**Author:** ![Robin73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Robin73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robin73)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2004, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200/44 "2004-06-08T21:42:44Z")
Hey lets lighten up thats my family you are talking about. I was always taught let the punishment fit the crime. In this case my brother kept flipping my cousins and my dresses up and laughing at our underwear. At the time, being able to pick out a pretty dress and panties for him to wear sure seemed like a fair deal. It still does. He never flipped up my dress again so I guess it worked. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2004, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200/45 "2004-06-09T01:27:05Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Well, how do you know she didn’t? :dubious: Wouldn’t you like to know how I know. And I would tell but a court order compels me to silence. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2004, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200/46 "2004-06-09T01:55:27Z")
I am 6’2", 230 (and dropping), U.S. Marine Corps Major (IRR), married, and very very secure in my heterosexuality[sup]\*[/sup]. Also very, very secure with anyone else’s (fill-in-the-blank)sexuality. I would wear lacy, silky, sexy womens undergarments in the course of dressing for a costume party, if that were a part of the costume. You could see that he was wearing it, right? It was part of the costume. [sub]\*NOTE: In the spirit of full disclosure, I have a cat that I have had as a bachelor, if you think THAT impacts my sexuality.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2004, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200/47 "2004-06-09T14:04:50Z")
In my area “Womanless Beauty Pageants” are a popular fund raiser. When my son was in high school he participated in one, wearing his girlfriend’s clothes, all the way down to undies. It would have ruined the lines of the dress he was wearing to have worn boxers. I was at the competition and it was a blast; my son’s girlfriend had coached him how to walk, stand and sit. He didn’t win or even place, with annoyed him highly, but he did win Miss Congeniality. Incidentally, in a school of 600 students 35 boys dressed in drag for this contest. With varying degress of success, of course. Afterwards, when I was talking to some other mothers, I pointed out the oddity of these pageants: You don’t want your kid to lose, but you’re a little uneasy when they win, too. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2004, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200/48 "2004-06-09T14:17:26Z")
> [@Cub Mistress](#): > > In my area “Womanless Beauty Pageants” are a popular fund raiser. When my son was in high school he participated in one, wearing his girlfriend’s clothes, all the way down to undies. It would have ruined the lines of the dress he was wearing to have worn boxers. I was at the competition and it was a blast; my son’s girlfriend had coached him how to walk, stand and sit. He didn’t win or even place, with annoyed him highly, but he did win Miss Congeniality. Incidentally, in a school of 600 students 35 boys dressed in drag for this contest. With varying degress of success, of course. > > Afterwards, when I was talking to some other mothers, I pointed out the oddity of these pageants: You don’t want your kid to lose, but you’re a little uneasy when they win, too. 😃 At my high school this was called “The Great Googa Mooga” and it was held every spring. I went as a platinum blonde ala’ Marilyn Monroe (even sang “Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend”) but couldn’t quite carry it off (I’ve had a heavy beard and lots of chest hair since I was about 12). The guy that one had naturally long hair and he skipped school the day of the contest to get it put up in a big, Aqua-netted beehive. He completed it with a black evening gown, opera gloves, and pumps. I haven’t a clue as to what underwear he had on. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2004, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200/49 "2004-06-09T15:35:21Z")
I once dressed as a woman for a Halloween party, right down to the essentials. I wore some (borrowed) sexy lingerie, a (borrowed) slinky dress and an atrocious blonde wig. I’ve even got a video tape of the parade we did somewhere. I think my mustache pretty much spoiled the effect, though. I sometimes strap on one of Marcie’s bras when I want to amuse her. I hold my shirt closed and then flash her. It never fails to crack her up, but I’m not too sure just why. ---
**Author:** ![Robin73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Robin73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robin73)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2004, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200/50 "2004-06-09T18:44:58Z")
You all have convinced me. I only have one other question then why don’t guys wear our stuff for us more often ? You look so darn funny in it. I mean if just once a month you came waltzing out in a pretty nighty I don’t know a gal that wouldn’t be entertained. As a matter of fact you probably could find several items of lingerie that you bought for us that we never use. ---
**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2004, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200/51 "2004-06-09T18:52:21Z")
> [@Robin73](#): > > …why don’t guys wear our stuff for us more often? Well. I can say quite confidently that if it turned you (the women) on, we’d be prancing around in your lingerie all the time. 😃 How about this question: Why don’t you women wear your lingerie for us more often? ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2004, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200/52 "2004-06-09T20:48:48Z")
> [@Algernon](#): > > Well. I can say quite confidently that if it turned you (the women) on, we’d be prancing around in your lingerie all the time. 😃 > > How about this question: Why don’t you women wear your lingerie for us more often? Because every time we do, it ends up on the floor in seconds flat. Seriously, though, there is no male lingerie. Anything that even remotely qualifies is generally done for laughs (thongs that look like an elephants head, complete with trunk? Yes, that’s just SO sexy…) I WANT MY MAN IN SEXY UNDERWEAR!!! ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2004, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200/53 "2004-06-09T21:15:42Z")
> [@Robin73](#): > > … he seemed to handel the high heels pretty well! I’d’ve been haydn, myself. ---
**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2004, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200/54 "2004-06-09T21:22:45Z")
> [@Ponder Stibbons](#): > > I’d’ve been haydn, myself. But you would’ve come bach. ---
**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:** [June 9, 2004, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200/55 "2004-06-09T21:27:44Z")
> [@Algernon](#): > > But you would’ve come bach. Not if you telemann to wear women’s underwear. ---
**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2004, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200/56 "2004-06-09T21:57:39Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Not if you telemann to wear women’s underwear. I suppose you’re right. He’d make a liszt of places not to return to. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200/57 "2004-06-10T00:07:06Z")
> [@Robin73](#): > > I only have one other question then why don’t guys wear our stuff for us more often ? I’m not allowed to wear **fizzy** ’s underthings. I was wondering how they felt some time ago (I’ve worn women’s underwear before, but it was some years ago). But no. ::shrug:: ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200/58 "2004-06-10T00:49:29Z")
> [@Algernon](#): > > I suppose you’re right. He’d make a liszt of places not to return to. Yes, but would he wear them while out chopin? ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200/59 "2004-06-10T15:26:42Z")
> [@fishbicycle](#): > > Yes, but would he wear them while out chopin? Not if he had to take debussy cross town. ---
**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200/60 "2004-06-10T15:29:44Z")
> [@](#): > > **Robin73** : He seemed to handel the high heels pretty well! > **Ponder Stibbons** : I’d’ve been haydn, myself. > **Algernon** : But you would’ve come bach. > **Ethilrist** : Not if you telemann to wear women’s underwear. > **Algernon** : I suppose you’re right. He’d make a liszt of places not to return to. > **fishbicycle** : Yes, but would he wear them while out chopin? > **Ponder Stibbons** : Not if he had to take debussy cross town. If he did, he could mahler the underwear. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200.md?page=4)