Another vote for boxer briefs.
And seconding the vote to go someplace cheaper than Nordies.
–scout, who buys underpants at Target
I’m trying desperately to imagine being in a situation where my man unbuckles his pants to reveal those MANties. I might laugh myself into a hemorrhage. Especially if they were the “days of the week” set. Tighty whities are wonderful on the right person, who, as gobear points out, should be fit enough to wear them like Charles Atlas.
Good luck, Sofa King. I wish you and the boys well in their new digs.
Nooooo!!!
Tightie-whities good…
Boxers good…
Boxer briefs good…
ALL men in underwear good!
All men OUT of underwear BETTER!
Esprix
I’ll take tighty-whities over the zebra-print string bikinis that my ex used to wear, any day!!!
Where are you all shopping that you can’t find short boxer shorts? I’m a woman, but I love to laze about the house in men’s boxers. They can’t be beaten for comfort or style. And all the boxer shorts I have are the short kind, even on me, and I’m only 5’3". (About mid-thigh length.) I usually shop the sales at the local department stores like Macy’s, but occasionally I splurge on silk boxers or ones with strange designs, usually in New Hope, PA, whose main street is a gay mecca of sorts. (Art-deco antique stores galore, kids.) 
I even found a super-short pair of boxers in purple silk. (Comfy and too fabulous to just be underwear, I feel.) Also, let me plug OpalCat’s webpage- I bought some of the white cotton Jesus-on-pogostick boxers, and they are really comfy. Not too long, either. I approve!
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New Hope is the bomb! Once South Street in Philly got a Gap, New Hope remained the last bastion of Bohemia in the area without having to resort to go all the way to New York.
Now I want a cheesesteak. 
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Esprix
While I certainly appreciate the sentiment, my boxer briefs are staying on. 
Yeah, if you’re used to just hanging from the vine, then even a hammock can seem a bit restrictive. Here’s another vote for the boxer briefs. They allow me to reach my full potential while at the same time insure that my Flying Ballendas have a safety net.
Tighty-whities are so fucking LAME!!!
Boxers, yes yes yes…boxers…they’re…um…looser.
BTW, wring, let’s hope your son never finds out his mother talks about his underwear with total strangers!
How 'bout these Tightie Whities?
damn board ate my witty reply.
Guin yes, my son would be appauled. So would Snookie.
please don’t tell either!
Times like this I’m glad I go commando.
Strictly bikini cut. Brief cut jocket shorts are for people’s Dads to wear.
…and boxer shorts are for people’s grand-dads to wear.
Another vote here for boxer-briefs. I got a package of Joe Boxers as an experiment (at Costco, no less), and went back later that week and got another four packs. Amazing.
SK: So here I am, in my Hef bathrobe…
Whatever happened to the Cookie Monster pelt?* I still get a smile out of that description from time to time.
And I wouldn’t worry so much about the TW’s lack of glamor: it ain’t the underwear that needs to be exciting, it’s what’s under the underwear. The only point when this will become an issue is when you next have a spouse or live-in girlfriend who sees you walking around in them all the time and decides that they’re just intolerably unaesthetic, at which time she will go out and buy you something a little more appealing.
*Big fuzzy bright blue bathrobe that SK told us about once.
Oh, and btw, I mean I like boxers on men…I myself wear bikini or hiphugger cotton panties.
Sorry, but one more vote for boxer briefs. Hell, my husband and sons cut the grass in those. (Yeah, I know they look like underwear even from across the street, but try telling them that.)
If you can’t “hang” with that idea, I then opt for bikini briefs…the sexier version, sorta, of “tighty whiteys”, which are cute, studly-dudley and looked great on Mr.Silky until the other parts of the anatomy* took over.
Actually, tighty whiteys, IMNSO, look really great on most guys. Even great, big, O-my-God-who-is-that-in-the-mirror-he’s-so-big!- guys. Nobody said they had to be white. They DO come in different colors.
If you gotta house those boys, put a decent roof under their head.
*[sub]Let’s just say it was an abdominal decision here.[/sub]
I want to make some things perfectly clear from the outset. I am aware of the website whose URL I am about to disclose SOLELEY because I am a web designer and have worked with the people responsible for developing it. I don’t shop there. I don’t even visit it. I just HAPPEN to know it exists. Purely by chance.
Having said all that: if you want to find, um, alternatives to traditional men’s undergarments, you can find some here. Please note - this site shows pictures of men in underwear (obviously enough, it’s selling men’s underwear), so, if looking at men wearing only their undies will get you into trouble, don’t click the link.
I provide this as a public service, for those who are complaining about not being able to find interesting men’s underpants. I’m being strictly altruistic here; I have no commercial or (especially) personal interest in the site. (Translation: I am straight, please believe me.) OK?
Boxer-briefs rule. Black, grey, navy, khaki, preferably lightly lycra’d.
I wear my SO’s boxer briefs on occasion, either over my own girly underpants as exercise hotpants, or instead of my own girly underpants if said undies have started to chafe on my person.
Surely those underpant people that Steve linked to could have found better arsed models for their thong photos. These lads have killer abs, but sadly flat buns. For thong models, this is not good.
The styles are an odd mix of the classic and the hideously garish. The lace-up boxer-brief is most interesting. It’s all very swashbuckling, but I wonder how convenient it would be when one was desperate for a wizz?