Boxers? Briefs? Boxer briefs? Let’s slip into the Twitter debate for National Underwear Day
The New Yorker in 2018 that tight-fitting underwear reduces sperm production (though not out of the normal range, unless one’s sperm numbers are low to begin with).For a long time, men were apathetic about their underwear, as Shaun Cole, author of The Story of Men’s Underwear, told i-D last year.
And then came gym culture.“In the ’80s, ’90s, ’00s and into the ’10s, men were in scenarios where they were taking their clothes off in front of each other, and so they began to think more about what they look like as they undressed,” Cole explained.It was around then that boxer briefs took off in popularity, offering a happy medium between form-fitting briefs and comfortable boxers.Did you know the first known pair of underwear can be dated all the way back to 3300 B.C.?But here in the 2020s, men are starting to reject gender norms in underwear and looking beyond the boxer/brief binary. (Observe, if you will, the 60 percent spike in eBay searches for men’s lingerie after Rihanna popularized that option through her Savage X Fenty brand.)So as we hit another National Underwear Day, here are Twitter users’ thoughts about boxer, briefs, and other options — as well as a handful of users of the app formally known as Twitter who are still on the fence.boxers > speedos/g-strings (cuz funny) > boxer briefs > briefsWe can't even get on the same page that boxers are better than briefs.
This country is screwed.Boxers are and always will be better than briefsLooking like a toddler out here in your tighty whiteys.And this is why boxers are better than briefs as they allow natural cooling rather than squeezing them up in a constant temperature boiler.I think It’s the same reason boxers are better than briefsbriefs are better than boxers i.
