For me, it’s not the lingerie is how you package the gift. It’s wrapping paper, metaphorically. It’s nice to look at, sure, but it ends up crumpled in the corner while you’re playing with what came inside it.
Yes, lingerie is a good investment!
Weird that we guys prefer to see women in bold colors (Red! Black! White!), yet women always seem to prefer to buy pastels or flesh tones. (Flesh tones are right out, by the way. No sex appeal whatsoever. Pastels can be OK, depending on the garment, but I rarely get worked up over them.)
Count me amongst the lingerie fans, Sara! The same sort of ‘sweet nothings’ may not work on all women, but there’s enough different kinds of lingerie to suit all types.
I didn’t know there were (hetero) guys out there who didn’t like to see women wearing lingerie. My guess is that few of them have ever been involved with the same woman for very long. After all, in a long-term relationship, one frequently sees one’s SO unclothed in non-sexual situations. Lingerie makes the statement that the situation isn’t non-sexual - at least, she sure doesn’t want it to be non-sexual. After all, she’s not going to be dressing up in something slinky just so she can wash the dishes.
Nacho4Sara
Couple observations that are more or less reiterations from previous posters.
1.) Sometimes it doesn’t matter what you are wearing. Sometimes you have spent an evening of heightened anticipation that results in the parties involved basically tearing their partner’s clothes off.
2.) Younger men tend to be more interested in quickly removing the wrapping than appreciating your beauty and all of the subtleties of the female form. With age comes wisdom.
6.) Your “friends” are probably still talking about the fact that you have this lingerie. And it is driving them nuts. Every guy in here knows the conversation they had as soon as you left.
3.) The beauty of lingerie is how it highlights the female form and how it almost… but doesn’t show everything. That air of mystery is what drives men up a wall. It’s not what you see but what you almost see.
4.) As to color I think that is dependent on the female in question. Certain colors look better on certain women.
5.) It is similar to framing a great work of art. It enhances the overall beauty.
Yours truly,
Sledman
Pencil me into the pro-lingerie column. I definitely appreciate it when my wife wears the stuff.
Although Victoria’s Secret’s selection is quickly exhausted and overly priced. We got one or two items there, and have been shopping elsewhere ever since.
Though I appreciate the effort of lingerie, and I understand when a woman wears it what it means, I have little visceral reaction to it. My favorite thing to see a woman in is something which looks comfortable and functional: Cotton panties (sans lace), and a cotton bra are great for underthings, and I REALLY dig a woman in sweatpants and a skimpy T-shirt. I guess it’s because I’m much more tactile than visual, and sweats feel great. Generally, the more effort it looks like it was for a woman to get into it, the less turned on I am by it.
I’m definitely pro-lingerie. I like things served up in an appetizing manner. That’s nt sexist – I’ll willingly serve myself up in whaever way for my wife.
There are certain things I admit I don’t understand – garter belts have never held any appeal for me. I think that a corset can emphasize the female figure wonderfully – but it looks so uncomfortable that I wouldn’t want to insist on it. (And those bust-enhancing get-ups they wear at the Renaissance fairs…)
My hubby sounds a lot like jayron. He’s never been big on lingerie…he likes tight jeans and a tight t-shirt.
The one thing women don’t seem to understand is that ALL lingerie is sexy.
White is cool. Plain is cool. Pictures of Wonder Woman on footie pyjamas is cool.
As long as it looks like it will come off quickly in the clinch.
No, lads, lingerie is sexy becuase it is something the ladies do especially to look sexy. It ain’t the outfit, it is WHY it is worn, so appreciate it, you tyro’s. Anytime, ladies, anytime. 
I like lingerie…on myself and other women…for this reason:
If the most gorgeous picture can be enhanced with the right frame.
eh hem.
I’m just sayin’.
A skanky old lady wants to “get it on” with her husband, so she puts on a pair of crotchless panties and lies spread eagle on the bed. The husband walks into the bedroom and she says, " you want some of this?" He says, " Hell no, look at what that thing has done to your underpants!"
Ba Dum Dum
Daniel, I agree with you entirely. (How the #$%&! did that happen?! :))
I think lingerie is kind of like the days leading up to Christmas…you know what’s coming up, but you still don’t want to rush to get there.
I’m in the “wrapping paper” faction.
On my wedding night (yes, we were chaste before marriage, but not thanks to me), my wife wore this cute little lacy number. We quickly found out that stiff scratchy lace is not conducive to foreplay, so off it came. She never wore it again.
I like the bra ads in the paper, and Victoria’s Secret catalogs, and the women’s underwear section of the Penney’s catalog. It was my first form of soft porn growing up. But I don’t look at the lingerie, I try to mentally undress the woman in it.
One thing I’ve figured out is that lingerie is like a miniskirt - some women have the bod to pull it off, some don’t. Sooo, if you have the kind of superior bod that allows you to put on a brief show before your man takes it all off, by all means, it’s worth the money. But if you’re only average, save your money: show up wearing nothing but a fun-loving, sex-hungry attitude.
Some women wear these sexy bras with what seems to be embroidery or something. These may be very sexy if that is all you are wearing but they look plain awful with a T shirt because instead of a nicely rounded breast you get a sort of crumply sight… awful! Take that bra off!
HA!!! There’s a girl I work with who wears bras like that all the time. They make her breasts look like great big golf balls.
I only wear that fancy lingerie when I know how the night will end up…and I don’t wear clothes that show it. 
Thanks for the input, guys!
(said in a cheesy accent) eenpuut, you liiike the eenpuut?
I feel sexy lingerie with my hands, of course. 
I love it on women.
Nacho4Sara: Your guy friends must be either gay or totally uninterested in sex for them not to say they are interested in “the stuff”. Or, they were too embarassed to continue your frank talk about underwear. That would be interesting if the latter is the case. Here we are men with the hormones, yet women tend to be more explicit in details when talking about sex. Probably its the talking aspect.