# Gotta ask ... anonymous poll re panties from other thread -- and I'm female in case you didn't know **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 28, 2011, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-ask-anonymous-poll-re-panties-from-other-thread-and-im-female-in-case-you-didnt-know/590667 "2011-07-28T21:10:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LurkerInNJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@LurkerInNJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkerInNJ)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2011, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-ask-anonymous-poll-re-panties-from-other-thread-and-im-female-in-case-you-didnt-know/590667/1 "2011-07-28T21:10:19Z")
**Anonymous** poll regarding panty sniffers from another thread. Based upon my personal experience with men, I think 50% of men have done this at least once in their life. What say you? ---
**Author:** ![LurkerInNJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@LurkerInNJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkerInNJ)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2011, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-ask-anonymous-poll-re-panties-from-other-thread-and-im-female-in-case-you-didnt-know/590667/2 "2011-07-28T21:20:50Z")
Forgot. From from this thread: > **[Did someone go through my clothes?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=617964)** > > I think someone might have been gong through my underwear. My room is kind of a mess, so I can’t be sure, but I think I noticed my drawer in a slightly different position than how I left it. Normally I might just think I was mistaken, except that I... ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2011, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-ask-anonymous-poll-re-panties-from-other-thread-and-im-female-in-case-you-didnt-know/590667/3 "2011-07-28T21:34:14Z")
Does this include panties that were on the girl at the time they were sniffed? If so, then yes, otherwise, no. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2011, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-ask-anonymous-poll-re-panties-from-other-thread-and-im-female-in-case-you-didnt-know/590667/4 "2011-07-28T21:37:48Z")
I feel like there’s a distinction between sniffing panties and stealing them in order to do so. The latter seems a whole lot weirder. ---
**Author:** ![LurkerInNJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@LurkerInNJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkerInNJ)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2011, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-ask-anonymous-poll-re-panties-from-other-thread-and-im-female-in-case-you-didnt-know/590667/5 "2011-07-28T21:37:52Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > Does this include panties that were on the girl at the time they were sniffed? panties + sniffed = yes ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2011, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-ask-anonymous-poll-re-panties-from-other-thread-and-im-female-in-case-you-didnt-know/590667/6 "2011-07-28T21:40:37Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > Does this include panties that were on the girl at the time they were sniffed? > > If so, then yes, otherwise, no. > [@LurkerInNJ](#): > > panties + sniffed = yes Well in the midst of foreplay while going down on her, who hasn’t done that? Hell I’ve even put them in my F’ing mouth. With that criteria, your % should definitely be way higher than 50%, more like upwards of 80-90% ---
**Author:** ![LurkerInNJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@LurkerInNJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkerInNJ)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2011, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-ask-anonymous-poll-re-panties-from-other-thread-and-im-female-in-case-you-didnt-know/590667/7 "2011-07-28T21:45:19Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > I feel like there’s a distinction between sniffing panties and stealing them in order to do so. The latter seems a whole lot weirder. I occasionally chew a piece of gum, but I would not steal a pack of gum in order to get a piece to chew. Stealing panties is weirder and probably rarer, but I do think finding men who have sniffed a pair at least once in their life is not so rare. Or weird. I think it’s something that many men do without thinking of how the female would think or feel if she found out, assuming she had any objection. Me? Catching my boyfriend, no big deal. Catching the cable repairman, whole other story. ---
**Author:** ![MichaelEmouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michaelemouse/32/101_2.png) [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2011, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-ask-anonymous-poll-re-panties-from-other-thread-and-im-female-in-case-you-didnt-know/590667/8 "2011-07-28T21:47:19Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > I feel like there’s a distinction between sniffing panties and stealing them in order to do so. The latter seems a whole lot weirder. Also, whether they’re used or clean. I’m not sure I get the point of sniffing clean panties but on the other hand, used panties seem to have potential for mood-killing odors unless you’re into scat. Then again, a foot fetish also has potential for bad odors and it’s common. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2011, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-ask-anonymous-poll-re-panties-from-other-thread-and-im-female-in-case-you-didnt-know/590667/9 "2011-07-28T21:47:32Z")
Better poll would be, have you ever sniffed a woman’s underwear, that you were not in a relationship with. ---
**Author:** ![LurkerInNJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@LurkerInNJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkerInNJ)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2011, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-ask-anonymous-poll-re-panties-from-other-thread-and-im-female-in-case-you-didnt-know/590667/10 "2011-07-28T21:48:45Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > Well in the midst of foreplay while going down on her, who hasn’t done that? Hell I’ve even put them in my F’ing mouth. With that criteria, your % should definitely be way higher than 50%, more like upwards of 80-90% Ok, so make it sniffed on purpose. I fell and my head landed in her lap and I had to inhale in order to breathe won’t count as a yes. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2011, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-ask-anonymous-poll-re-panties-from-other-thread-and-im-female-in-case-you-didnt-know/590667/11 "2011-07-28T21:54:04Z")
> [@LurkerInNJ](#): > > I occasionally chew a piece of gum, but I would not steal a pack of gum in order to get a piece to chew. > > Stealing panties is weirder and probably rarer, but I do think finding men who have sniffed a pair at least once in their life is not so rare. Or weird. I think it’s something that many men do without thinking of how the female would think or feel if she found out, assuming she had any objection. > > Me? Catching my boyfriend, no big deal. Catching the cable repairman, whole other story. But your poll doesn’t talk about the situation. Going into a woman’s bedroom and sniffing them if you aren’t in a relationship with her is different from sniffing them in the course of foreplay. ---
**Author:** ![LurkerInNJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@LurkerInNJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkerInNJ)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2011, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-ask-anonymous-poll-re-panties-from-other-thread-and-im-female-in-case-you-didnt-know/590667/12 "2011-07-28T21:54:36Z")
> [@MichaelEmouse](#): > > Also, whether they’re used or clean. I’m not sure I get the point of sniffing clean panties but on the other hand, used panties seem to have potential for mood-killing odors unless you’re into scat. Then again, a foot fetish also has potential for bad odors and it’s common. If a woman has something mood-killing in her panties, she needs better hygiene or medical attention. ---
**Author:** ![LurkerInNJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@LurkerInNJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkerInNJ)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2011, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-ask-anonymous-poll-re-panties-from-other-thread-and-im-female-in-case-you-didnt-know/590667/13 "2011-07-28T22:07:41Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > But your poll doesn’t talk about the situation. Going into a woman’s bedroom and sniffing them if you aren’t in a relationship with her is different from sniffing them in the course of foreplay. The situation or circumstances wasn’t an issue. It could be your 18 year old cousins in the laundry basket when you were 13, or your girlfriends from last night or this one time when you were in college and you thought this girl was really hot and you were in her room an there they were on the floor and you wanted to but were afraid that if she noticed or you got caught or every night you dream of Kim Kardashian pelting you with her thongs. I believe, from personal and anecdotal experience, that 50% of men have or had done this at one time or another, and that it wasn’t so unusual. Men came in to say that they had never done this. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2011, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-ask-anonymous-poll-re-panties-from-other-thread-and-im-female-in-case-you-didnt-know/590667/14 "2011-07-28T23:55:03Z")
Have made a clear division of what we’re talking about: SO’s underwear when we’re hard up but she’s not available VS filched from the apartment complex laundry room? While we’re at it, should we note preference: period underwear or date-night underwear? Back when there were cheap skin magazines (covers and maybe spread on slick paper, the rest pulp) on the back were ads “send $5 for my soiled underwear.” I had an I Age of some woman putting on and taking off as many pairs of panties as she could all day. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-ask-anonymous-poll-re-panties-from-other-thread-and-im-female-in-case-you-didnt-know/590667/15 "2011-07-29T00:36:29Z")
> [@LurkerInNJ](#): > > If a woman has something mood-killing in her panties, she needs better hygiene or medical attention. Or she’s a dude. 🙂 Hey, I want to see the results, but I’m not a man! This is the worst poll EVER! ETA: Or, I could hit “View Poll Results.” I still don’t like not being able to vote. Sexist poll. ---
**Author:** ![LurkerInNJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@LurkerInNJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkerInNJ)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-ask-anonymous-poll-re-panties-from-other-thread-and-im-female-in-case-you-didnt-know/590667/16 "2011-07-29T00:50:57Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > Have made a clear division of what we’re talking about: SO’s underwear when we’re hard up but she’s not available VS filched from the apartment complex laundry room? It’s both. ---
**Author:** ![palacheck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a88e57/32.png) [@palacheck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palacheck)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-ask-anonymous-poll-re-panties-from-other-thread-and-im-female-in-case-you-didnt-know/590667/17 "2011-07-29T00:52:28Z")
Am I going to be the first one to admit that I have? When I was a younger man I would do this. For masturbation… However, I’ve never done this with the underwear of a woman I wasn’t going out with or without the girlfriend’s knowledge. I don’t know if this is because I am opposed to it in some way, or if I’ve just never had the opportunity. Probably the latter. Nowadays, as I’ve said before, I’m too old to waste an orgasm that could be used for sex. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-ask-anonymous-poll-re-panties-from-other-thread-and-im-female-in-case-you-didnt-know/590667/18 "2011-07-29T00:54:37Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > Back when there were cheap skin magazines (covers and maybe spread on slick paper, the rest pulp) on the back were ads “send $5 for my soiled underwear.” I had an I > Age of some woman putting on and taking off as many pairs of panties as she could all day. Or maybe she ran _two_ sets of ads, one of which said “send $3 for my _used_ underwear,” for which she put on and took off as many pairs of panties as she could all day. Then when someone wanted her _soiled_ underwear for $5, she did something different… ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-ask-anonymous-poll-re-panties-from-other-thread-and-im-female-in-case-you-didnt-know/590667/19 "2011-07-29T01:09:33Z")
> [@LurkerInNJ](#): > > It’s both. Well I’d say that’s too big a distinction to be lumped together. Your SO’s panties as the next best thing is, arguably, an earthier version of the perfumed letter. I’d guess, with no supporting evidence, that a guy whacking it with stolen panties is a paraphilist with an inability to connect with the women themselves. In the former scenario it’s a poor substitute for sex, in the latter he can only get a erection with the panties but would be impotent or prematurely ejaculative with the owner ---
**Author:** ![LurkerInNJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@LurkerInNJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkerInNJ)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-ask-anonymous-poll-re-panties-from-other-thread-and-im-female-in-case-you-didnt-know/590667/20 "2011-07-29T01:28:57Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > Well I’d say that’s too big a distinction to be lumped together. Your SO’s panties as the next best thing is, arguably, an earthier version of the perfumed letter. > > I’d guess, with no supporting evidence, that a guy whacking it with stolen panties is a paraphilist with an inability to connect with the women themselves. > > In the former scenario it’s a poor substitute for sex, in the latter he can only get a erection with the panties but would be impotent or prematurely ejaculative with the owner It’s a you either did or you didn’t situation, with an I didn’t yet but it’s possible I would thrown in. There are no great motivational divides is the poll. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotta-ask-anonymous-poll-re-panties-from-other-thread-and-im-female-in-case-you-didnt-know/590667.md?page=2)