# Ever go out without underwear?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-go-out-without-underwear/105193
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [April 23, 2002, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-go-out-without-underwear/105193 "2002-04-23T19:20:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2002, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-go-out-without-underwear/105193/1 "2002-04-23T19:20:42Z")
Just wondering. I don’t recollect that I have. I suppose some people don’t wear it at all but I always do. I suppose it could be kinda of erotic if you went to a party or something with out any on. I kinda wish I didn’t have any on right this minute.:eek:
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### Author:  [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2002, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-go-out-without-underwear/105193/2 "2002-04-23T19:37:54Z")
I lost mine once. I was largely pregnant and too cheap to buy maternity underwear and, one day, the pair I was wearing gave up out of protest. I managed to get back to my office before they hit the floor, but I didn’t have an extra pair, so I just went without the rest of the day. Can’t say it was particularly erotic, though.
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2002, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-go-out-without-underwear/105193/3 "2002-04-23T19:43:59Z")
I never wear underwear.
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### Author:  [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2002, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-go-out-without-underwear/105193/4 "2002-04-23T19:47:46Z")
Sometimes I wear undies. Sometimes I don’t. It largely depends on my mood.
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### Author:  [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2002, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-go-out-without-underwear/105193/5 "2002-04-23T19:47:49Z")
I suffer from irritable bowel syndrome. Over the past 5 years, I have left about 24 pairs of soiled undies in various rest rooms. It has always meant going without till I get home.
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### Author:  [@EVO95](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EVO95)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2002, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-go-out-without-underwear/105193/6 "2002-04-23T19:53:48Z")
[Kramer] I’m out there, and I’m _lovin’_ it. [/Kramer]
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2002, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-go-out-without-underwear/105193/7 "2002-04-23T19:54:44Z")
I used to sometimes throw on just a coat and heels to run out and pick up the Sunday Times . . . Now I subscribe.
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### Author:  [@plasticbryan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plasticbryan)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2002, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-go-out-without-underwear/105193/8 "2002-04-23T20:12:12Z")
I can’t go without, Mrs.Plastic on the other hand often will go “Commando”.
[hijack]Why is called commando? I know that a _Friends_ episode mentioned it, but why commando??[/hijack]
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### Author:  [@GrandfatherTrout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandfatherTrout)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2002, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-go-out-without-underwear/105193/9 "2002-04-23T20:13:36Z")
I wore my kilt to a DopeFest. What do _you_ think?
😃
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### Author:  [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2002, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-go-out-without-underwear/105193/10 "2002-04-23T20:18:31Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Eve \*
> \*\*I used to sometimes throw on just a coat and heels to run out and pick up the Sunday Times . . . Now I subscribe. \*\*
::looking for a paper route in Eve’s neighborhood::
Always wear undies, as I’m afraid of a ‘franks and beans’ incident, but when I’m wearing my silk boxers it feels like I’m going commando. Does that count?
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### Author:  [@Cyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyn)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2002, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-go-out-without-underwear/105193/11 "2002-04-23T20:33:58Z")
Some of my tank tops have built-in bra-like things…
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### Author:  [@EVO95](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EVO95)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2002, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-go-out-without-underwear/105193/12 "2002-04-23T20:40:31Z")
Two boobs, two posts…works for me.
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### Author:  [@Winnowill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnowill)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2002, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-go-out-without-underwear/105193/13 "2002-04-23T20:50:18Z")
Well, all I can say is that it’s a good thing I wear not only underwear, but also pajamas. Ever since the sleep-walking incident a couple of years ago when I woke up on the outside of my hotel room…
:eek:
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### Author:  [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2002, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-go-out-without-underwear/105193/14 "2002-04-23T20:57:20Z")
i went without for years. then i noticed how all my jeans ripped in the crotch after a year or so. now its boxer briefs for me. they cup me in ALL the right places.
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### Author:  [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2002, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-go-out-without-underwear/105193/15 "2002-04-23T21:00:24Z")
Nope. Boxer-briefs, every day. I’m too paranoid to wear regular boxers (unless I’m just stepping out of the house for a minute) because I have a touch of irritable bowel syndrome and, well, you do the math. If anything were to happen (not that it ever does), I’d prefer it to be contained…
I sleep naked, though, because I find the fabric on the legbands (you know what I mean) irritating.
- s.e.
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### Author:  [@burundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burundi)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2002, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-go-out-without-underwear/105193/16 "2002-04-23T21:05:14Z")
I can’t stand thongs, so often when I wear skirts or pants where a panty line would show, I go without.
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### Author:  [@Slainte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slainte)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2002, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-go-out-without-underwear/105193/17 "2002-04-23T21:10:18Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Winnowill \*
> \*\*Well, all I can say is that it’s a good thing I wear not only underwear, but also pajamas. Ever since the sleep-walking incident a couple of years ago when I woke up on the outside of my hotel room…
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> :eek: \*\*
I rarely wear undies and almost always sleep nude - good thing I don’t sleepwalk! 😉
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### Author:  [@Pucette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pucette)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2002, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-go-out-without-underwear/105193/18 "2002-04-23T21:22:23Z")
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. It can be fun at a party, even though I’m usually the only one who knows… 😉
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### Author:  [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2002, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-go-out-without-underwear/105193/19 "2002-04-23T21:29:16Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by plasticbryan \*
> \*\*I can’t go without, Mrs.Plastic on the other hand often will go “Commando”.
> [hijack]Why is called commando? I know that a _Friends_ episode mentioned it, but why commando??[/hijack] \*\*
They were getting ready to go to a fancy engagement; all the guys had rented tuxedos. Joey usually doesn’t wear underwear, and in fact apparently owns one pair only. Chandler, his roommate, has hidden this pair (which Joey is not yet wearing) as a gag. Ross asks why doesn’t he (Joey) just do without for tonight:
**"It’s a rented tux! I’m not gonna go ‘commando’ in another man’s fatigues!"**
I assume the term “commando” was chosen in light of the military metaphor. OTOH, Scottish men who wear no underwear beneath their kilts (a good portion) were said to be going “regimental.” Perhaps “commando” is a derivation of that.
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### Author:  [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2002, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-go-out-without-underwear/105193/20 "2002-04-23T21:35:16Z")
Never. I’d just be too embarrassed, even if I was the only one who knew! And it’s all because of that one incident in kindergarten…I guess I forgot one morning, and we had to change for gym class (we all changed in the same room at that age) and one of my classmates laughed at me. It left scars, I tell you. Scars.
Although I HAVE thought about it, to please my SO…maybe one day 🙂
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