I’ve Decided To Stay With The Boxer

I've only ever considered 3 choices when it comes to what I wear under my pants.  Yes, yes, I know there are other options besides the big three of boxers, briefs and commando-style, but I have never really take them seriously.  Some, I know, extol the look of the thong, but comfort is a big thing with me, and the ‘physics’ of a thong just plain seems uncomfortable.  The semi-brief or bicycle shorts style may have its adherents, but semi-brief wearers are only fooling themselves, IMO.  Those drawers are merely briefs with a tiny little leg tacked on.  If you like briefs, then be honest about it and wear briefs.  

Before long john wearers chime in here, let me just say that insulated underwear have a strictly regional appeal, and I don't happen to live in a region were long john wearing is needed.  Nor do most of the population, I might add.  I’m sorry that your undergarment of choice will never amount to more than a curiosity and that many stores will not even bother to stock long underwear.  It’s just the way things are in reality.  So it really comes down to three choices for me, and I hope you will follow me down below (pun intended) to explain my thought process in this diary and why I'm sticking with boxers.

Firstly, I'd like to give you my views on going without, or commando-style.  Now we can all conjure up pleasant memories of being buck-ass nekkid, so I understand the appeal of nostalgia.  But I want to be blunt, here, and state that commando is not an underwear choice!  Commando adherents would have you believe that it is a valid undergarment choice.  They go on and on about how "we were born that way" and "remember how good it used to feel" and "what could be a more natural" thing to wear under your slacks than nothing.  They can try to make this point again and again, but I will rise up again and again to shout NO, WEARING NO UNDERPANTS IS NOT AN UNDERWEAR CHOICE.  YOU CAN’T CHANGE OUT OF NOTHING.  YOU CAN’T CHANGE INTO NOTHING. This is why the commando style will never appeal to me.

My decision to not change to briefs came somewhat harder.  Full disclosure: For a time in my life I was a very contented briefs wearer.  Briefs made me feel snug, and I enjoyed the secure feeling.  I don’t know if you can understand this feeling if you haven’t experienced it, but brief wearing made me feel like I was home.  But there was always this little voice nagging at me – telling me there was another way.  I would navigate the underwear aisles, searching for the three pack of my all cotton tidy whities and avert my eyes from the explosions of color and material that those boxer shorts came in.  "Why not?" asked the voice.  "Who’s going to know?"

So one fateful day I gave in to that voice, and I have never looked back.  I still remember the first time I put them on.  I kept looking down to see if I really was covered up down there.  :-)  It just felt so freeing.  I had found the ideal compromise between the yearning for simpler times that commando offered and the you-can-go-home-again comfort of the briefs.  

Boxers.  I soon realized that I had become part of a fraternity (or sorority if you prefer) of people who weren’t afraid to have it all.  I could go through my day feeling free and lest constricted, but know there was a little something down there that had my back – and my front, too, to be completely honest.   I will never willingly change.

I suppose that if all boxers were to vanish for some reason, and we lost the ability to make more (some trade deal gone wrong?) I could settle for either briefs or no undergarment at all.  A little part of me would die, of course, but I would still go on.

But enough about my choice, tell me what undergarment you choose to wear, and how you came to that decision.  I hope everyone who responds will be considerate of the choice that others have made.  What you wear beneath your outer clothes is a very personal choice.  I hope we can all explain our choices in a positive way, without resorting to attacking the choices of others.

In case any of you think this diary is some sort of veiled political diary, you are mistaken.  It is absurd to think that underwear choice would ever be considered in the political realm.  Absurd.