# Women, explain this "going commando" thing to me **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 13, 2012, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-explain-this-going-commando-thing-to-me/643941 "2012-12-13T18:06:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2012, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-explain-this-going-commando-thing-to-me/643941/101 "2012-12-16T05:20:48Z")
I see a total of 18 respondents have voted for “Its a psychological thing” or “it’s something else”. These are the responses that intrigue me. In The Story of O, written by a woman, O is not allowed to wear underwear at all, she must always go commando so that she can have sex more easily. I suspect that might be a part of the “psychological thing” but i don’t know. It sounds good to me! ---
**Author:** ![Cayuga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Cayuga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cayuga)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-explain-this-going-commando-thing-to-me/643941/102 "2012-12-17T02:45:02Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > If a reporter had tried to aim a camera under Hathaway’s dress or tried to lift up her dress, I’m sure he’d have been arrested. The latter, maybe, but not the former. I’ve seen it bunches of times – an actress or other celebrity steps out of her car, a crowd of photographers presses in, and one or two of them reach down, hold their cameras an inch or so off the sidewalk, point them straight up, and click away. I weep for our society. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-explain-this-going-commando-thing-to-me/643941/103 "2012-12-17T02:56:18Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > From what several women have told me, it’s A. It seems that there are some dresses/skirts that no matter how skimpy, or “line free” the panties/thong/whatever claim to be, an underwear line will still show and THAT. IS. BAD. One has to ask…why? Why is this bad? Panties are a fact of life. We all know you ladies are wearing them (well, most of you at least), so what’s the BFD about panty lines and crap like that? ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-explain-this-going-commando-thing-to-me/643941/104 "2012-12-17T02:59:02Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > She’s wearing shoes? Not only that, but she has beautiful feet. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-explain-this-going-commando-thing-to-me/643941/105 "2012-12-17T07:52:47Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > One has to ask…why? > > Why is this bad? Panties are a fact of life. We all know you ladies are wearing them (well, most of you at least), so what’s the BFD about panty lines and crap like that? Because tight clothes look better without VPL. VPL breaks up the long, lean line which is the objective of most of those outfits, and makes the wearer look shorter and stockier, which is exactly the opposite of what the wearers want. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-explain-this-going-commando-thing-to-me/643941/106 "2012-12-17T20:21:24Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > Because tight clothes look better without VPL. VPL breaks up the long, lean line which is the objective of most of those outfits, and makes the wearer look shorter and stockier, which is exactly the opposite of what the wearers want. And it’s uncomfortable! If your outfit is tight enough to see VPL, it’s probably also tight enough to make those panties bunch uncomfortably. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-explain-this-going-commando-thing-to-me/643941.md?page=5)