In The Rage of War: The Boxers-Briefs Jihad

Guys wear boxers. Guys wear briefs. Some guys wear thongs (and isn't that gross?). And here comes the underwear war. Although not talked about a lot by guys, it has been around and on for years, maybe decades. This issue, of course, has been totally sensationalized by women. They are the ones who talk about it a lot. They discuss and decide on which actually looks sexier on men. They talk about which one is a major turn-on and which one they want their partners to wear. Excuse me for my attitude towards this boxers-or-briefs thing, but that's just what I think is more often than not called invasion of privacy.

People of the opposite sex even came up with a list of why boxers are hip:

Reason One: Guys have very precious cargo down there. Do we really want that squished between their bodies and a tight piece of fabric?! We think not. So, briefs hold it in, but also don't squish anything.

Reason Two: Boxers are just plain sexier than briefs. Briefs make it look like a guy's a kangaroo with a pouch. Read more...

Okay, enough with the girls.

I asked my friend TJ, a boxers fanatic, what he thought of underwear stuff. "I don't like briefs. That's a personal preference. They kind of give you this tight feeling that you really don't like, and I heard boxers give you a bigger chance of being fertile. You know, the circulation thing. They're more hygienic than tighty-whities, too. And have I told you? Only kids wear briefs." Well, he definitely made a few good points about the snug-fit, for-kids-only thing about briefs and its hygienic purpose. And wearing boxers doesn't make the search for the best ones to buy boring, honestly. Boxers come in different prints. Smileys, cartoons, stripes and stars and checks, name it. You could even have your own picture printed on it if you're really that vain. But he brought up something that's been believed by a lot of guys since the "advent" of boxers which up to now has no clinical proof - boxers allow for better chance of male fertility because they give a more "natural" position of the you-know-what and thus a correct decreased temperature. That's theoretically correct, yes. But there had been studies about this conducted on dogs (read: they made these dogs wear a pair of boxers and briefs), and researchers found out there's actually no difference in temperature of the you-know-what between the two. Read more...

I don't think there's really much difference if you wear boxers or briefs. It's just about being yourself, doing what you wanna do and wearing what you wanna wear. It's just about self-expression (if you do show your underwear off).

Boxers, anyone?