# Men's underwear, fly or no fly? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 16, 2011, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-underwear-fly-or-no-fly/603088 "2011-11-16T03:37:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-underwear-fly-or-no-fly/603088/121 "2011-11-19T22:04:47Z")
You left out an option: Superfly! ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-underwear-fly-or-no-fly/603088/122 "2011-11-19T23:41:52Z")
I do it the easy way, of course. Why would I want to stretch a bunch of elastic that’s way out of the way, instead of going straight through the hole that’s so conveniently provided? ---
**Author:** ![Jake\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Jake\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake_Jones)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-underwear-fly-or-no-fly/603088/123 "2011-11-20T04:40:40Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I do it the easy way, of course. Why would I want to stretch a bunch of elastic that’s way out of the way, instead of going straight through the hole that’s so conveniently provided? Amen, brother. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-underwear-fly-or-no-fly/603088/124 "2011-11-20T05:02:23Z")
Ladies, please skip this post. Yeah, right. :rolleyes: I wore boxers today and a shirt with a tail. Jesus Christ. Hard to find the waist band of the boxers through the Levis fly, let alone the fly of the boxers. Thank G-d I wasn’t drinking beer. At least I didn’t button the boxers to the shirt. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-underwear-fly-or-no-fly/603088/125 "2011-11-20T05:06:39Z")
> [@Cubsfan](#): > > The only time I do is when I am in dress uniform (military) and step up to the urinal to pee. I have shirt garters and belts and undershirts and all kinds of shit folded and tucked neatly to keep the shirt looking sharp. If I want to go over the fence I have to pull the front of my shirt out and unbutton the bottom button to pee, which is harder with shirt garters on. I’m a 50 year old woman and I’d never heard of shirt garters. That’s the weirdest thing ever! This thread is fascinating. StG ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-underwear-fly-or-no-fly/603088/126 "2011-11-20T05:22:01Z")
> [@StGermain](#): > > This thread is fascinating. > > StG See post 119. ---
**Author:** ![raskolnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e47c2d/32.png) [@raskolnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raskolnik)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-underwear-fly-or-no-fly/603088/127 "2011-11-20T12:53:34Z")
Ah…but i wear long underware over my regular briefs when it’s cold (It’s 19F right now) which means I CAN"T pull it out. But I do have a fly, and have to snake it throught the two ply. That said, I don’t want my junk around more cold air than I have to give it… ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-underwear-fly-or-no-fly/603088/128 "2011-11-20T19:43:39Z")
Guys, did you ever have your tallywacker work it’s way through the fly when wearing Jockey shorts? Almost impossible to fix in public. Your Johnson is just hanging there, the bulge showing through your slacks! Although it might impress certain women… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-underwear-fly-or-no-fly/603088/129 "2011-11-21T16:20:56Z")
If I push hard enough, I can pee straight through my pants into the toilet. At least that’s what I tell myself when I’m really drunk. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-underwear-fly-or-no-fly/603088/130 "2011-11-21T16:39:29Z")
> [@MOIDALIZE](#): > > At least that’s what I tell myself when I’m really drunk. Man, what do you drink? I _want_ some of that. This forum requires that you wait 60 seconds between posts. Please try again in 1 seconds. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-underwear-fly-or-no-fly/603088/131 "2011-11-21T16:49:21Z")
> [@Jake](#): > > Guys, did you ever have your tallywacker work it’s way through the fly when wearing Jockey shorts? > Almost impossible to fix in public. Your Johnson is just hanging there, the bulge showing through your slacks! > Although it might impress certain women… 🙂 The worst part about that is a cold zipper. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-underwear-fly-or-no-fly/603088/132 "2011-11-21T16:50:28Z")
> [@Larry\_Mudd](#): > > So, do you through-the-fly peeing guys still go that route when when your boxers have a snap fly? I’ve never even heard of a snap fly. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-underwear-fly-or-no-fly/603088/133 "2011-11-21T17:12:39Z")
> [@Rhiannon8404](#): > > You left out an option: Superfly! Not to mention, I’ll fly away, I just wanna fly, pretty fly for a white guy, fly away home… ---
**Author:** ![MacLir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@MacLir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacLir)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-underwear-fly-or-no-fly/603088/134 "2011-11-21T18:52:48Z")
What no one has mentioned (maybe 'cause they’re rare) are the tighty-whiteys with a horizontal fly - Munsingwear calls it a “kangaroo pouch”. Kinda splits the difference - you go over the top, but it’s lower than the waistband ---
**Author:** ![jgonz123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9f8e36/32.png) [@jgonz123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jgonz123)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2011, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-underwear-fly-or-no-fly/603088/135 "2011-11-24T22:15:17Z")
Unless I’ve missed it above, I don’t see the method I always use when wearing briefs + flexible shorts: out the SIDE (leg-hole). With briefs & baggy sweat shorts, I use my right hand to pull the left shorts leg up, & grasp the briefs to really stretch the leg-hole elastic, entirely over to the right side to expose the WHOLE area – freeing Willy & friends to let it all hang out & breathe. I love that method the best. It’s as close to being naked, while looking completely normal from rear-view, as one can get. And it literally takes 1 second, all in one motion. Of course, I also love doing the naughty (w/my wife) completely nude outdoors in nature. Nothing beats that. \>\>\>\> That said, I don’t want my junk around more cold air than I have to give it… Opposite for me. Hmmm… maybe I’m a closet, burgeoning, “flasher”. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2011, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-underwear-fly-or-no-fly/603088/136 "2011-11-24T22:20:48Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > The fly on underwear is a tangled weave of seams and flaps and false seams and false flaps. I just want to pull out my penis and piss, not solve a fabric Rubik’s Cube. +1. I wear briefs. I undo belt, drop pants, over the top. Trying to fiddle through the fly means zipper scratches and a zigzag path with the trouser snake. I tried it, it did not work well. Going through the leg opening on briefs seems even more of a challenge than the zigzag fly. Stretching things that aren’t supposed to stretch. ---
**Author:** ![jayman22](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@jayman22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayman22)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-underwear-fly-or-no-fly/603088/137 "2013-06-12T02:34:48Z")
I have been using traditional fly openings forever as I like to go through the fence. I came across this brand called Tommy John. They had an ad online that displayed their quick fly opening and guaranteed that it would decrease my post pee drip problems They have a horizontal fly opening, not like the fabric fly i have in my jockeys. this thing is slick, fast, and pretty awesome. Its the best I’ve found on the market and I can sure pee a hell of a lot faster when I’ve drank alot in these things. highly recomment ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-underwear-fly-or-no-fly/603088/138 "2013-06-12T04:19:28Z")
Just what the world needs. Forget about building a better mouse trap. We need some genius to build a better fly. A fly that most everyone can agree is actually convenient and easy to use. A fly that even females can use! (Wouldn’t _that_ be an innovation! All the ladies could get their business done before the end of the intermission!) As for everyone expressing disbelief that any way of peeing (fly or no fly) is practical, other than your own way — surely there must be YouTube videos showing every possible permutation! ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-underwear-fly-or-no-fly/603088/139 "2013-06-12T04:25:09Z")
> [@jgonz123](#): > > Unless I’ve missed it above, I don’t see the method I always use when wearing briefs + flexible shorts: out the SIDE (leg-hole). Little ditty about _that_ (sort of NSFW): Now that I am getting old, My pilot light is out: What used to be my sex appeal Is now my water spout. I used to be embarassed To make the thing behave, For each and every morning, It would stand and watch me shave. But now I’m growing old, And it sure gives me the blues, To have the thing hang down my leg And watch me shine my shoes. ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-underwear-fly-or-no-fly/603088/140 "2013-06-12T07:37:59Z")
It seems to me that another option has not been mentioned: namely stretching the leg elastic a bit and slipping Mr Johnson out the lower escape hatch. This works especially well with speedo-type shorts where the leg elastic is fairly close to the same level as the penis. Why are you all looking at me like that? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-underwear-fly-or-no-fly/603088.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-underwear-fly-or-no-fly/603088.md?page=8)