They may look good on some guys, but I’m not one of them (my legs are short, and any article of clothing that is too long on my thigh makes my legs look even shorter). I’m a briefs man.
Actually, I have a couple pairs of boxer-briefs I sleep in sometimes. They’re more comfy than regular underwear which tend to ride up my ass when I’m in bed - however, I don’t wear them daily or under regular clothes…
I recently got two pair of boxer briefs in a multi-pack of tightie whities (the style I’ve worn my whole life). I tried 'em one day and was instantly hooked. I tossed out all my briefs and bought several packs of boxer briefs to replace 'em. I never wore boxers because they’re just too damn loose, but boxer briefs are absolutely perfect. They cut down on thigh chafing (as someone else mentioned), they look good, they feel good (more support than boxers without bunching/binding) and yes, they get me out of the whole boxers-vs-briefs argument, too! They do tend to make me sweat a bit more than briefs did, but I can live with that.
I love them – the seams don’t chafe on a long motorcycle ride. Mrs. danalan hates them, she says they make me look like an old man 
FTL all the way!
Actually, now that I think about it there was a Maxim with a blonde du jour (Elisha Cuthberth?) wearing them and it worked.
Panties are better 
I, too, must join in the BB accolades.
I often work outdoors in some pretty rugged locations where the only way in and out is by foot and we have to carry equipment with us. However, as a strict boxer man I would occasionally experience some chafing down in the t’aint, especially after a particularly strenuous day. Mrs. Gaffer saw BB one fine and glorious day and, having some knowledge of my occasional condition, bought some.
Wonder upon wonder, not only do they look and feel great, they also took care of that …ahem…chafing issue.
While I have not abandoned boxers, I now reserve them strictly for office work.
Boxer briefs - one of the few sartorial subjects I’m passionate about. I love them. Not dorky like tighty whities, not floppy like boxers. (I still prefer boxers to briefs.) Some brands actually make me look half-decent with just my underwear on.
Where did you find boxer briefs under $10? It’s been so hard to find any without name brands, let alone cheaply, a situation that has bedevilled my life up to this point.
However, this will allow us a deft segue into my best shopping coup ever. I happened to be walking down a little street in Valladolid, Spain, while I was studying Spanish there last year. And what did I happen to see but a little store that just happened to have the best boxer briefs I’d ever seen in my life. Exactly how I’d always pictured good ones: short (the legs no lower than the crotch line), without a giant baggy crotch, and in a variety of attractive colours. The price? 4 euros. I bought as many as I could pack.
(Let me also mention that the boi sent me, among other things, some very sexy black boxer briefs for our first anniversary. That’s, like, the equivalent of fine French silk lingerie.)
Huge boxer-brief fan here too. I love those things. I used to wear colored briefs and always had problems with chafing (the area where my legs meet my crotchicles is verra sensitive). When I discovered boxer briefs, I converted and never looked back.
I’d be dead by now if it were not for Boxer-briefs. I can’t even picture a grown man wearing regular white briefs. I’m not the biggest of boxer fans either. My only option way back was bikini undies and let me tell you boxer-briefs saves my testicles in the nick of time! There should be a National holiday or something.
Another girl who wears 'em here. Almost exclusively for biking, however (I never cared for padded bike shorts). They are wonderfully comfortable; I’d probably wear them exclusively in cold weather if I had the nerve.
matt: Zellers, you dork. That is, if you don’t have a problem with FTL or Hanes. Two pair for around $10. I take a medium in the FTLs. Jer always buys the stripey colored ones but I prefer the solid colors.
I seem to be one of the few guys that hates boxer briefs. They are uncomfortable, make my ass sweat, and my penis always seems to end up in an uncomfortable position. I prefer boxers a lot better. They are more comfortable, my penis doesn’t end up in an uncomfortable position, there is room to move around in, and they don’t gather in my crotch.
I also wanted to say that I have three pairs of boxer briefs, and keep them as emergency
pairs, and I’ve never worn them. I always thought it would be better not to wear
underwear than wear the boxer briefs.
I should also add, that I do see why you would find them more comfortable than
regular boxers, I just don’t.
Count me as another fan! I used to reluctantly wear briefs for the support. If I wanted total freedom, I would just go commando and avoid the annoying inseam and bunching-up-ness of boxers. But it’s in the nature of manly bits to, um, wander, and briefs don’t really do a good job of keeping them in. Combine that with the annoying sides digging into the tops of one’s inner thighs and the ridiculous appearance, and you have a convert to boxer briefs.
As a woman, when I see my husband in boxer briefs, it’s like a switch flips in me. I just want to jump his bones! So yes, the boxer briefs are wonderful, it’s pretty much all he wears. Oh and the white ones are the best to me because they are almost see through. It’s like you see bulge as well as skin…my is it getting hot in here?? I wonder what color he has on tonight…hmmm
They are very very very comfortable. I think the only place to put myself that’s more comfortable is … well, this IS mixed company, so I won’t go there.
Comfy as hell, don’t pinch my legs off, don’t make me look like I have a size problem, don’t bunch me all up in one place, etc. Just so comfy.
I love em. My dick tended to stick out of the boxer fly and get chafed. Man I hated that. And I couldnt bear tighty wities. So I suffered til the magic that is Hanes boxer briefs, 2 for 9.99, came ininto my life.
I like them a lot too. I was raised as a briefs man, on a dare in college I wore boxers for a week on the premise that “once you switch to boxers, there’s no going back.” I switched between boxers and briefs depending on the occasion for the next few years, but the boxer briefs are slowly eclipsing the rest of my underwear wardrobe… a nice compromise in the constant freedom vs. security conflict of the boxers/briefs debate.
Please elaborate. 
There seems to be a problem at the Pad of Evil®, in particular in the Dresser of Evil®, directly related to this topic.
Maybe it’s because I’ve become an earlier riser, since Jer has to get up for school when I used to get up for work (so I now get up around 6 AM; this morning I got up at a quarter till), and it’s still dark outside, and I don’t want to turn the bedroom light on because my honey is still sleeping, but…
Rummaging through the underwear drawer, it seemed there were no BBs left except the older ones, some with holes. No snug-fitting, recently-purchased FTLs anywhere, or so it seemed. I became frantic. Now, I just bought four more pair over the last couple of weeks, and the laundry gets done every week. Granted, Jer does the laundry Fridays while I’m at work, so by today, we’ve used up most of the clean clothes, but surely we must own more than 14 pair of FTL BBs? Well apparently not. But it’s important! I’m going to the gym today! I will be seen - albeit briefly (ha! I made a funny!) - in my skivvies. What if this were to happen a week from today, when I’m going to the gym with my goof jock software engineer co-worker? How could I feel confident? In a strange way, I’m beginning to relate to feminine hygiene product commercials.
I clutched my pearls, children.
That is, of course, until I found a pair of FTL BBs somewhere at the back of the drawer. Charcoal gray striped - not a solid color like I prefer, but at least not those tacky red striped ones Jer bought.
Of course, this means two things:
First, the underwear drawer will be sorted out over the weekend, and old stuff thrown away. Given how extensive (but, as you can see from my story, not extensive enough) my BB collection is, I really don’t think I’m ever going to have to resort to that one pair of white briefs I’ve had since I was in high school. And the BBs with holes are either going to go to Jer’s shoeshine kit (he polishes his 21-hole Rangers religiously), or down the chute.
Second, I have some shopping to do: at least four more pairs of BBs, and solid colors. This I can do this evening between work and the gym.
And there, my friends, is a brief (giggle) account of this morning’s near crisis.