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Jun 11, 2023

Boxers? Briefs? Boxer briefs? Let’s slip into the Twitter debate for National Underwear Day

August 5 is National Underwear Day, so it’s time to revisit the debate dividing our global society: Boxers or briefs? (Or neither?) The boxers-versus-briefs question is often a matter of taste and

August 5 is National Underwear Day, so it’s time to revisit the debate dividing our global society: Boxers or briefs? (Or neither?)

The boxers-versus-briefs question is often a matter of taste and comfort—except, perhaps, when sperm count comes into play. Jorge Chavarro, a fertility researcher at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, told 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 > briefs

We 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 briefs

briefs are better than boxers i will die on this hill

This is why briefs are better than boxers. They keep you from turning into a hateful old capitalist exploiter.

Briefs are undoubtedly better than boxers.

Diapers aside, I've always been a wear of briefs. Boxers are just glorified shorts, and while boxer briefs are OK, the extra part on the thighs that briefs don't have makes me uncomfortable.

I love being gay ? #briefs #gay #lgbt pic.twitter.com/L6svQ5JB7b

Briefs are better than boxers & more effective .

If you don't understand why briefs are better than boxers then you just aren't sexy enough.

jockstraps are so much better than boxers/briefs ?

I think every man should be made to wear jock straps or thongs. No more boxers, tidy whities, briefs….. lol of course that’s my warped fantasy!! Lol

One of my Savage X purchases. I bought all the men's thongs she had. They go along good with my collection. I've been wearing thongs and g-strings for years as undies and swimwear. I don't like boxers, briefs, jocks, and those tight whiteys shit I left them alone in high school. pic.twitter.com/riFzLmcOIN

I prefer jock straps but briefs better than boxers

Boxers or briefs? Jock straps.

Hear me out…. replacing my briefs/boxers with jock straps was the best decision I’ve ever made.

I went through a boxer brief phase. I'm a trunk bro now. pic.twitter.com/TYARDobiOB

Boxer briefs are the superior undergarment.

btw boxer briefs are the bestI don't care

Man boxer briefs are hella comfy

WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME HOW FUCKING AMAZING BOXER BRIEFS ARE I WANT 20 MORE OF THESE BITCHES

Boxers or briefs? pic.twitter.com/FvMbxhoXcr

Which is better? Boxers or briefs?https://t.co/m5CO2bNEEX#onlyFans #gayhunk #LGBT #gay #underwearmen #FitnessModel #fitness pic.twitter.com/Di6JSGxpWz

Boxers or Briefs? pic.twitter.com/lrkbpVNBNb

Happy 41k. Boxers or briefs? pic.twitter.com/zdCDxCo3qC

Boxers or briefs? ?? pic.twitter.com/qJ40MYgV1B

Speedos and thongs are so last year! This summer is all about the scantily-clad gays in skimpy bodysuits.