# Men: peeing through the fly in your underwear, or over it?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-peeing-through-the-fly-in-your-underwear-or-over-it/470114
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [October 29, 2008, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-peeing-through-the-fly-in-your-underwear-or-over-it/470114 "2008-10-29T17:29:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2008, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-peeing-through-the-fly-in-your-underwear-or-over-it/470114/1 "2008-10-29T17:29:47Z")
I seek support for my position that the only way to pee is to hoist your junk out of your underwear entirely, and not to use that ridiculous little slit in the front of it. It’s so much more comfortable! Easier to control! Greater satisfaction all round!
So, gentlemen, how do you pee? Through or over?
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### Author:  [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2008, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-peeing-through-the-fly-in-your-underwear-or-over-it/470114/2 "2008-10-29T17:38:50Z")
I go through, but I should note that I’m a boxers guy so that probably makes a difference.
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### Author:  [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2008, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-peeing-through-the-fly-in-your-underwear-or-over-it/470114/3 "2008-10-29T17:43:27Z")
Depends. Most of the time over, but sometimes through.
No logic dictating what when.
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### Author:  [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2008, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-peeing-through-the-fly-in-your-underwear-or-over-it/470114/4 "2008-10-29T17:45:30Z")
Neither. I haven’t worn underware since I was 11, party for this ridiculous reason. Why make it hard?
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2008, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-peeing-through-the-fly-in-your-underwear-or-over-it/470114/5 "2008-10-29T17:47:23Z")
> [@WormTheRed](#):
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> **Depends.** Most of the time over, but sometimes through.
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> No logic dictating what when.
Dude. Way to totally waste a punchline.
For me, it depends on whether or not I’m wearing a cummerbund.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2008, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-peeing-through-the-fly-in-your-underwear-or-over-it/470114/6 "2008-10-29T18:02:26Z")
> [@IntelSoldier](#):
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> Neither. I haven’t worn underware since I was 11, party for this ridiculous reason. **Why make it hard**?
Another wasted line. 😃
> [@Ethilrist](#):
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> Dude. Way to totally waste a punchline.
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> For me, it depends on whether or not I’m wearing a cummerbund.
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### Author:  [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2008, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-peeing-through-the-fly-in-your-underwear-or-over-it/470114/7 "2008-10-29T18:07:25Z")
I don’t even unzip. I just put my foot on the urinal and pull it out of the bottom of my pants leg.
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### Author:  [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2008, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-peeing-through-the-fly-in-your-underwear-or-over-it/470114/8 "2008-10-29T18:08:04Z")
When I wear underwear, it’s boxers, and through. Unless it’s all I’m wearing, in which case I go through the leg hole.
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### Author:  [@Belrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belrix)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2008, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-peeing-through-the-fly-in-your-underwear-or-over-it/470114/9 "2008-10-29T18:09:23Z")
Through.
Going over can lead to the elastic touching the underside of Mr. Happy, restricting the flow a bit, and sometimes leading to incomplete emptying.
_Viva la anonymity!_
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### Author:  [@Influential\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Influential_Panda)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2008, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-peeing-through-the-fly-in-your-underwear-or-over-it/470114/10 "2008-10-29T18:12:34Z")
Over. Always over, no exceptions.
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### Author:  [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2008, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-peeing-through-the-fly-in-your-underwear-or-over-it/470114/11 "2008-10-29T18:13:42Z")
Through.
For some reason, i am reminded of the second Austin Powers movie…
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2008, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-peeing-through-the-fly-in-your-underwear-or-over-it/470114/12 "2008-10-29T18:16:48Z")
I use the fly. Before I wore boxers, it was over.
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### Author:  [@Spurious\_George](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spurious_George)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2008, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-peeing-through-the-fly-in-your-underwear-or-over-it/470114/13 "2008-10-29T18:21:56Z")
> [@Influential\_Panda](#):
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> Over. Always over, no exceptions.
Always.
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### Author:  [@StinkyBurrito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StinkyBurrito)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2008, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-peeing-through-the-fly-in-your-underwear-or-over-it/470114/14 "2008-10-29T18:24:14Z")
I wear boxers and I go through. There is the elastic flow disruption mentioned above, but also the fact that if you have a shirt tucked in, as I most often do, you then have to get through your pants fly, under your shirt and over your underwear. That is just too complicated and quite frankly with that many layers I have a difficult time digging around and finding my weiner without having to go around my underwear too. I am sure when I am struggling to locate said weiner, other men at the urinals are silently laughing at me because I can’t even find my own dick.
I have also noticed a number of people - full grown adult people - who unbuckle their belt and unbutton their pants before zipping their fly down. What the fuck is that all about?
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2008, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-peeing-through-the-fly-in-your-underwear-or-over-it/470114/15 "2008-10-29T18:44:18Z")
Over. Unless I’m wearing a few certain “easier access” boxers; meaning, there’s enough space above and or blow the centre button without undoing it.
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### Author:  [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2008, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-peeing-through-the-fly-in-your-underwear-or-over-it/470114/16 "2008-10-29T18:49:36Z")
Boxers = fly
Briefs = up & over
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### Author:  [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2008, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-peeing-through-the-fly-in-your-underwear-or-over-it/470114/17 "2008-10-29T18:50:26Z")
Depends on the skivvies.
Boxers, through.
“Relaxed” briefs, over.
Briefs that have a snappy, snappy elastic of the sort that occassionally snaps back like a slingshot, delivering a shocking blow to the testicles which may result in a startled splash of urine all over the guest towels and the emission of a squeek like a girl? I tend to use the ridiculous little fly thingie on those, if I have my wits about me enough to think of it.
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### Author:  [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2008, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-peeing-through-the-fly-in-your-underwear-or-over-it/470114/18 "2008-10-29T18:56:13Z")
I take both my pants and underwear completely off when I urinate.
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### Author:  [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2008, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-peeing-through-the-fly-in-your-underwear-or-over-it/470114/19 "2008-10-29T19:00:54Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#):
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> Boxers = fly
> Briefs = up & over
Same here.
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2008, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-peeing-through-the-fly-in-your-underwear-or-over-it/470114/20 "2008-10-29T19:02:42Z")
> [@Justin\_Credible](#):
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> I take both my pants and underwear completely off when I urinate.
You must be popular at work.
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