# Question about boxer **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 21, 2003, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-boxer/170000 "2003-04-21T09:47:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Leechlord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19b73/32.png) [@Leechlord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leechlord)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-boxer/170000/1 "2003-04-21T09:47:10Z")
I used to wear the normal underwear but recently like 2-3 years ago, i started wearing boxer and I liek it better than normal underwear therefore i kept using it. But a couple days ago, my mom said it’s not good for ur dick to wear boxer. Any prove on this? any treatment? ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-boxer/170000/2 "2003-04-21T10:01:45Z")
Hmm. All I can see is that some doctors say to wear boxer shorts to keep the scrotum temperature cooler for sperm production (in cases of infertility). Is there an existing problem, **Leechlord**? ---
**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-boxer/170000/3 "2003-04-21T10:16:01Z")
I’ve been wearing em for years, no problem here 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Leechlord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19b73/32.png) [@Leechlord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leechlord)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-boxer/170000/4 "2003-04-21T10:17:02Z")
No existing porb, she said that with boxer everything is loose but in normal underwear it’s not, and too loose might hurt later in the future ---
**Author:** ![milquetoast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@milquetoast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milquetoast)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-boxer/170000/5 "2003-04-21T11:36:46Z")
The only problem I have with boxers is that I keep falling out the hole in the front. But that only occurs when I’m not wearing anything over them (which is usually only when I alone at home–my coworkers frown on my not wearing pants at work). I’ve been wearing boxers for 5 years and I never had a problem stemming from a loose penis [nsert joke here]. I’m not a jogger, so it doesn’t go flopping all over the place. Men have gone centuries without tight-fitting breeches. I would think if this caused a problem, it would be common knowledge. I think your mother is simply mistaken. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-boxer/170000/6 "2003-04-21T11:59:52Z")
I’m sorry I just can’t picture this. [Mom]Don’t wear boxers, dear. It’s not good for your dick.[/mom] ---
**Author:** ![PetW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@PetW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PetW)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-boxer/170000/7 "2003-04-21T14:03:21Z")
Oh man I don’t know why but that cracked me up. ---
**Author:** ![Leechlord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19b73/32.png) [@Leechlord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leechlord)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-boxer/170000/8 "2003-04-21T14:19:37Z")
…Anyway, yah i play a lot of sport so it does flopped around. So i guess it’s okie yah… ---
**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-boxer/170000/9 "2003-04-21T14:24:09Z")
I think you should just wear whatever you feel comfortable in, \*\* Leechlord. \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-boxer/170000/10 "2003-04-21T15:58:34Z")
I’ve been wearing boxers for years. I can’t see how the tightness of the tighty-whities could be good for Big Jim and the Twins. ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-boxer/170000/11 "2003-04-21T18:03:04Z")
Wearing briefs or a jockstrap during sports has always been a good idea, especially sports involving a lot of, um, bouncing. Unless you’ve got a hernia already, I doubt it makes a lot of difference, though. Off the topic, has anyone else noticed that underwear seems to alternate generations? As a lad, I thought of boxers as “old people” underwear – I was very surprised to get into my first gym class and see that some students wore them, and insisted on wearing them even under their gym shorts. I still wear briefs (expensive and brightly colored designer briefs, but briefs nonetheless), and I am bemused to hear or read people disparaging briefs and calling them “old men’s underwear”; I’m still in my 30s, fer cryin’ out loud!