# Men: peeing through the fly in your underwear, or over it? **URL:** \ **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:** 13\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Dereknocue67](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6de8d8/32.png) [@Dereknocue67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dereknocue67)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-peeing-through-the-fly-in-your-underwear-or-over-it/470114/81 "2013-01-02T09:05:44Z")
I pee over my underwear unless I’m in a hurry however, when I’m in a rush, I pee in. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-peeing-through-the-fly-in-your-underwear-or-over-it/470114/82 "2013-01-02T15:11:30Z")
When I wore tighty-whities, it was always over the top. Since that fateful day sometime in college when I graduated to boxers, I’ve slowly evolved to favor the fly. However, it depends on (and I’m a bit surprised this hasn’t been mentioned yet) trouser material. In suit trousers, or dress trousers generally, or any other fairly light-weight, soft, flexible material, it’s always\* through the fly. Jeans, I always unzip, though there’s a decent chance I’ll then use the fly in the boxers. Denim is too heavy and stiff to make for a decent opening there, and you wind up with zipper-teeth biting at you. Not pleasant. - Except when my boxers and tucked-in shirt have somehow managed to contort themselves into a labyrinth of Minoan complexity and I’m holding up the line because I’ve been fumbling around in my pants for five minutes, unable to find my own dick. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-peeing-through-the-fly-in-your-underwear-or-over-it/470114/83 "2013-01-02T15:41:44Z")
If I’m wearing slacks with a belt and a tucked in shirt, then through the zipper and through the pee hole. If it’s just jeans and a tshirt, I just pull 'em down and pee. I like to try not to touch anything if I can help it (not that I don’t like the feeling of touching myself, but I don’t wanna spread my groin bacteria around and washing isn’t always 100% effective so it’s better just not to touch it in the first place). ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-peeing-through-the-fly-in-your-underwear-or-over-it/470114/84 "2013-01-02T16:08:40Z")
You know, your penis is not a magic bacteria fountain and if you wipe well, your ass isn’t either. Your junk spends 95% of its time not involved with anything except underwear that gets washed regularly. Your hands are touching your face and your nose and your ears and eyes and keyboards and doorhandles and that jug of milk that 7 other people picked up to read the nutritional information on and then put back and the credit card that how many clerks have touched to run through their POS. Plus showering just moves bacteria colonies around on your body so your groinal bacteria has already traveled all over your bodily real estate. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-peeing-through-the-fly-in-your-underwear-or-over-it/470114/85 "2013-01-02T16:45:16Z")
@Inner Stickler: [The Master Speaks](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1043/why-are-men-supposed-to-wash-their-hands-after-urination) ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-peeing-through-the-fly-in-your-underwear-or-over-it/470114/86 "2013-01-02T16:45:58Z")
At a urinal, through the boxer hole and trouser fly. Otherwise in a stall or at home, trousers and undies down. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-peeing-through-the-fly-in-your-underwear-or-over-it/470114/87 "2013-01-02T16:54:00Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > @Inner Stickler: [The Master Speaks](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1043/why-are-men-supposed-to-wash-their-hands-after-urination) Yes, that agrees with my post. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-peeing-through-the-fly-in-your-underwear-or-over-it/470114/88 "2013-01-02T19:56:04Z")
> [@Dervorin](#): > > 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? I’m with you. Been a junkhoisteroverer all my life. ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-peeing-through-the-fly-in-your-underwear-or-over-it/470114/89 "2013-01-03T17:25:13Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > I’m with you. Been a junkhoisteroverer all my life. Hah. Good thing I’d subscribed to this thread, or I’d have entirely missed the new updates. Hi, my name is Dervorin, and I’m a junkhoisterovererererer. I might have to create a sig just so I can have that in my sig. Sadly, TreacherousCretin, looking at the results, it seems we are in the minority. This is a disgraceful state of affairs, and I will be writing a strongly-worded letter to the Times about it! ---
**Author:** ![MikeF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-peeing-through-the-fly-in-your-underwear-or-over-it/470114/90 "2013-01-03T19:51:03Z")
Briefs - over, except when I’m in the shower. Then its right through the cotton. Oops, wrong thread. ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-peeing-through-the-fly-in-your-underwear-or-over-it/470114/91 "2013-01-04T08:28:00Z")
Hey, how about UNDER, that is, through the opening for the leg. Even with tighty whities there is plenty of room. No struggling through the inadequate aperture or dropping the skivvies to go “over the top”. Well, it works for me. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-peeing-through-the-fly-in-your-underwear-or-over-it/470114/92 "2013-01-04T08:50:35Z")
Jockey style underwear (“tightie-whities”) does not have a fly and never has. The two panels are separate in order to allow for junk of varying size to fit comfortably. Trying to thread the dragon through that for draining purposes is ridiculous. ---
**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:** [January 4, 2013, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-peeing-through-the-fly-in-your-underwear-or-over-it/470114/93 "2013-01-04T20:02:04Z")
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