# 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:** 4
**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 10, 2004, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200/61 "2004-06-10T15:43:07Z")
> [@Algernon](#): > > If he did, he could mahler the underwear. What, using purcell post? ---
**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, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200/62 "2004-06-10T18:54:46Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > What, using purcell post? That was along the lines I was thinking. After all, he’s not Harry Potter – he couldn’t use a brahms-stick. ---
**Author:** ![Robin73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Robin73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robin73)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200/63 "2004-06-10T19:05:15Z")
I want to make sure we are clear on this. We are amused when you wear our things, not turned on. That being said amusing a gal is a good way to get laid! The whole point I guess is that it is okay and funny to see you guys in lingerie as long as you don’t enjoy the experince toooo much. Ted was having too much fun wearing a dress and being a girl! ---
**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 10, 2004, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200/64 "2004-06-10T19:24:37Z")
Yeah, there is that fine line between “Hey, that’s kinda cute and funny, c’mere” and falling off the bed because you’re laughing so hard. Kinda un-ravels the mood. ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200/65 "2004-06-10T20:36:42Z")
I think it’s funny. On a side note, when we were younger, my little brother wanted to be just like me. He would wear a pink tutu, put bows in his hair, and have my mom paint his nails in gold glitter nail polish. He claims to have “forgotten” this now, though. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200/66 "2004-06-10T22:20:24Z")
If I could get away with it, I think I would wear a nice Mumu or dress all the time, just for the balls free comfort and coolness. Dresses are very comfortable. Can’t speak for the lingerie. Wasn’t there a fat Homer (Simpsons) episode where all he could wear was a mumu? Scotsman know where it’s at. ---
**Author:** ![Lewis47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e274bd/32.png) [@Lewis47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lewis47)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200/67 "2020-04-25T23:03:03Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Many “normal” men have transvestite tendencies. Guess it depends on what your definition of “normal” is. Women’s underwear look a lot more comfortable than men’s underwear do. If it were more socially acceptable, I probably would try women’s underwear. ---
**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:** [April 25, 2020, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200/68 "2020-04-25T23:11:23Z")
Just so you know, you’re responding to a 16 year old thread. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200/69 "2020-04-25T23:17:20Z")
And society has changed a lot in 16 years: for the better in this regard. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200/70 "2020-04-25T23:18:48Z")
If nothing else it gave us this classic: [Walking Round In Womens Underwear - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6Cj1g7xTQ8) ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2020, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200/71 "2020-04-26T00:06:56Z")
> [@lobotomyboy63](#): > > If nothing else it gave us this classic: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6Cj1g7xTQ8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6Cj1g7xTQ8) I was going to be _so_ disappointed if this didn’t lead to that song! ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2020, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200/72 "2020-04-26T01:15:13Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > I was going to be _so_ disappointed if this didn’t lead to that song! And I thought it would be this one. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/FshU58nI0Ts/hqdefault.jpg "Monty Python - Lumberjack Song") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FshU58nI0Ts) ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2020, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200/73 "2020-04-26T02:33:03Z")
Wife and I, packing for a trip. Her undies took a quarter of the space, and when washed out, dried out in a quarter of the time, so I suggested a common wardrobe. Hers were perfectly utilitarian. Comfort was a trade-off — hers were cut “wrong” but made of much more sensuous fabric, seamless. The winning Plus – she thought they were a bit of a turn-on. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2020, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200/74 "2020-04-26T02:34:36Z")
Hmmmm? ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2020, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200/75 "2020-04-26T02:37:19Z")
I wore colored pantyhose when I played an elf in a church play once. They kind of turned me on. Some of my “men’s” bikini underwear in college were indistinguishable from their female counterparts and I loved them too. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2020, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200/76 "2020-04-26T07:28:05Z")
Here’s my story that most nearly applies here: I bought some pillowcases once that were made of a fabric that I thought might be the same kind of stuff that ladies’ panties are made of – that kind of shiny satiny (?) looking stuff. I thought it might be very comfortable to lay my face on. It wasn’t. The material was some kind of synthetic fabric. Just like cotton fibers have “microfibers” that give it that soft fuzzy feel, this synthetic stuff also had microfibers. But they were like stiff plastic and gave the material a feel like fine sandpaper. In another thread on the subject on this board, some years ago, I asked why the ladies would wear something like that on their private sensitive parts. The nearest thing I got to a cogent answer was that butts, apparently, are tougher than faces. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2020, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200/77 "2020-04-26T07:33:57Z")
How do persons of the male geophysical characteristics even fit into underwear designed for females? Unless said undies are way oversize and baggy? Where does stuff go? ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2020, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200/78 "2020-04-26T12:20:37Z")
Like don’t like silk as well as cotton. So yes, by reputation, WWI soldiers would wear french silk women’s undies when they could get them. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2020, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200/79 "2020-04-26T12:57:51Z")
I was reading about Marvin Gaye’s death and was surprised to learn his Dad who was a strict disciplinarian and fundamentalist Christian of sorts was a cross dresser. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2020, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200/80 "2020-04-26T19:46:55Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > I bought some pillowcases once that were made of a fabric that I thought might be the same kind of stuff that ladies’ panties are made of [. . .] > The material was some kind of synthetic fabric. Just like cotton fibers have “microfibers” that give it that soft fuzzy feel, this synthetic stuff also had microfibers. But they were like stiff plastic and gave the material a feel like fine sandpaper. > > In another thread on the subject on this board, some years ago, I asked why the ladies would wear something like that on their private sensitive parts. The nearest thing I got to a cogent answer was that butts, apparently, are tougher than faces. Most likely it’s not actually the same sort of fabric; you just sort of thought that it might be. I’ve worn both synthetic and natural fabric underwear and I’ve never worn any that felt like either stiff plastic or sandpaper, let alone both together. (I wouldn’t have bought those pillowcases, either.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-a-normal-guy-would-ever-wear-womens-undies/249200.md?page=5)