TMI from men: do you pee through the fly in your underwear, or over the top?

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Apparently, the hole in the front of men's underwear was originally developed for the sake of warmth because most restroom facilities were outdoors and it was cold. As more and more bathrooms moved into the warm and cozy interior, many men stopped sticking their things through the hole, forgot the creation story, and assumed it was for ventilation purposes. However, when confronted with the question of why women's underwear doesn't have a "ventilation hole", most men can only hypothesize, weakly, that women don't get as sweaty down there.

(source: Encylopedia Britannica, 1984)

Poll Results

OptionVotes
O'er the top 23
Through the fly/airhole/peehole 12
I don't wear underwear 1


^ Z S on the internet here (Z S), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 16:40 (fifteen years ago)

Supplementary ILX info:

Men - do you use the fly or 'keyhole' opening in your underwear when you go to the loo?

^ Z S on the internet here (Z S), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 16:41 (fifteen years ago)

usually over the top, but i can adapt to my surroundings - if the situation calls for it, i'm more than capable of peeing through the flyhole

man see united (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 16:47 (fifteen years ago)

http://ruthlessreviews.com/80saction/pics/overthetop1.jpg

Swat Valley High (goole), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 16:52 (fifteen years ago)

http://markpickavance.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/fly_poster.jpg

liberated erotic voyage of disco (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 16:57 (fifteen years ago)

depends entirely on the variety of underwear being worn iirc

roman knockwell (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 19:14 (fifteen years ago)

depends on how well my pants stay up & if im wearing a belt

rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 19:17 (fifteen years ago)

What about this pair of comments from the thread I linked to above:

Have you seen these guys at urinals who tuck the briefs down under their balls, so it catches there and they have their hands free? I mean, this isn't that strange of a thing to do, I don't think -- like, at home -- but I'm sometimes amazed that people will tuck under at a public urinal and then be all leaning back and streching their arms up in the air and stuff.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, November 28, 2005 7:10 PM

Also hold the phone: I take back what I said about hooking the underwear underneath the scrotum -- I just went to the bathroom, and now I think this is what I do. Not the hands-in-the-air bizarro part, but yeah, using the scrotum as a kind of hook under which to tuck the waistband. But I dunno, maybe the thread just made me self-conscious and hyper-aware and I wound up doing something different.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, November 28, 2005 7:19 PM

^ Z S on the internet here (Z S), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 19:19 (fifteen years ago)

the ol' scrotum hook

cutty, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 19:21 (fifteen years ago)

when i wore boxers, thru the flyhole - now that i wear boxer briefs, over the top

oj da hoosman (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 19:21 (fifteen years ago)

fly w/boxers, ott otherwise wow x fucking p

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 19:22 (fifteen years ago)

First of all, I'm all O_o just thinking that anyone tucks the waistband under the balls. But more importantly, what about the risk of the waistband becoming "unhooked", sliding out and then whipping upwards, slapping the urinal flow who knows where, left, right, on someone else's leg?

^ Z S on the internet here (Z S), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 19:22 (fifteen years ago)

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BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 19:22 (fifteen years ago)

z_s that is precisely why i have never done the ol hook

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 19:23 (fifteen years ago)

as long as you hold the waistband there's really no issue there

oj da hoosman (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 19:23 (fifteen years ago)

see this is why I'm glad I don't pee with dudes

quincie, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 19:24 (fifteen years ago)

A guy I knew in high school was always made fun of because he used to drop his jeans AND boxers all the way down to the floor when he pissed. Like, he did that until 6th grade or something before someone told him that it was a bit of a faux pas.

^ Z S on the internet here (Z S), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 19:24 (fifteen years ago)

z_s that is precisely why i have never done the ol hook

Exactly, there are enough things to worry about in public restrooms, there's not need to tempt fate while you're at it.

^ Z S on the internet here (Z S), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 19:25 (fifteen years ago)

you're essentially just giving up control of yourself to whoever makes your underwear, i mean that's just crazy

Swat Valley High (goole), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 19:26 (fifteen years ago)

A guy I knew in high school was always made fun of because he used to drop his jeans AND boxers all the way down to the floor when he pissed. Like, he did that until 6th grade or something before someone told him that it was a bit of a faux pas.

― ^ Z S on the internet here (Z S), Tuesday, May 19, 2009 2:24 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

i remember being in 8th grade and walking into a bathroom and seeing a 6th grader standing at the urinal with his pants all the way down - def freaked me out

oj da hoosman (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 19:27 (fifteen years ago)

yeah i still remember seeing that once it's really burned into my memory

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 19:30 (fifteen years ago)

whoa boy i am laughing

cutty, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 19:32 (fifteen years ago)

also it's pretty easy to do the ball tuck w/o it coming undone and flopping your dick everywhere

oj da hoosman (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 19:39 (fifteen years ago)

It's pretty easy until the one time it isn't, and things go haywire. Then you're peeing all over the place. You're playing with fire!

^ Z S on the internet here (Z S), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 19:46 (fifteen years ago)

depends on the size and quantity of the balls iirc

roman knockwell (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 19:46 (fifteen years ago)

Doesn't the quantity usually = 2?

^ Z S on the internet here (Z S), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 19:48 (fifteen years ago)

usually yes

roman knockwell (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 19:49 (fifteen years ago)

haha, well I take your point. Tri-balls need not worry about the scrotum tuck going haywire, uniball's should use extreme caution.

^ Z S on the internet here (Z S), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 19:51 (fifteen years ago)

sometimes i will ball tuck if i a. am drinking and not thinking straight or b. see a magazine that i would like to peruse for the duration of my pee

oj da hoosman (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 19:52 (fifteen years ago)

Ah, the fabled "race to finish the paragraph before you finish the pee"

^ Z S on the internet here (Z S), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 20:21 (fifteen years ago)

am i the only one that tucks btwn member and balls? don't always tuck in any case, but tucking under balls seems like overkill or something

U2 raped goat (darraghmac), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 23:12 (fifteen years ago)

^^^

resistance is feudal (WmC), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 23:33 (fifteen years ago)

I use the fly. When I was young I wore tight jeans and tight briefs and did the pull down. Now that I'm getting older so much older I have looser jeans and looser briefs and I don't have a problem with using the fly and zipper.

I tried Jockey brand one time and that fly opens upwards. I found myself wandering around on my own throughout the day.

james k polk, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 23:47 (fifteen years ago)

you should have worn trousers too that day.

jed_, Wednesday, 20 May 2009 10:41 (fifteen years ago)

the ball tuck has blown my mind

zinguist (cozwn), Wednesday, 20 May 2009 12:12 (fifteen years ago)

Guys I tried the ball tuck this morning

^ Z S on the internet here (Z S), Wednesday, 20 May 2009 15:42 (fifteen years ago)

half or full tuck method?

U2 raped goat (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 May 2009 15:43 (fifteen years ago)

tbh a little bit of both!

^ Z S on the internet here (Z S), Wednesday, 20 May 2009 15:43 (fifteen years ago)

I should have went for the full tuck Plank/Strongarm combo.

^ Z S on the internet here (Z S), Wednesday, 20 May 2009 15:45 (fifteen years ago)

i do the darraghmac tuck

cutty, Wednesday, 20 May 2009 15:49 (fifteen years ago)

what shall henceforth be known as the darraghmac tuck

cutty, Wednesday, 20 May 2009 15:49 (fifteen years ago)

internet fame at last

U2 raped goat (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 May 2009 15:52 (fifteen years ago)

'the darraghmac tuck' sounds like a dance move

zone 1 penguin (braveclub), Wednesday, 20 May 2009 21:06 (fifteen years ago)

what about the bowl of fruit plums n banana reverse tuck thru the legs

am0n, Thursday, 21 May 2009 01:41 (fifteen years ago)

http://i43.tinypic.com/dggkra.jpg

am0n, Thursday, 21 May 2009 01:49 (fifteen years ago)

deep lols felt here

cutty, Thursday, 21 May 2009 01:59 (fifteen years ago)

apparently i am behind the times w/r/t crotch technology because i have never heard of tucking anything anywhere.

sometimes the answer to this question depends on whether or not i'm wearing a belt or have a shirt tucked in

i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Thursday, 21 May 2009 02:12 (fifteen years ago)

crotch technology a+++

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 21 May 2009 02:19 (fifteen years ago)

This and the peeing with morning wood thread have been some of the most informative on ILX imo.

TAT THY SAD EAGLE (ENBB), Thursday, 21 May 2009 02:20 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Sunday, 24 May 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Monday, 25 May 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

that's a weird result

Surmounter, Monday, 25 May 2009 23:02 (fifteen years ago)

you should wear underwear, dude

cutty, Monday, 25 May 2009 23:21 (fifteen years ago)

as IF

Surmounter, Monday, 25 May 2009 23:22 (fifteen years ago)

A guy I knew in high school was always made fun of because he used to drop his jeans AND boxers all the way down to the floor when he pissed. Like, he did that until 6th grade or something before someone told him that it was a bit of a faux pas.

― ^ Z S on the internet here (Z S), Tuesday, May 19, 2009 3:24 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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kid cutty (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 26 May 2009 03:17 (fifteen years ago)

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

It wasn't me (james k polk), Tuesday, 26 May 2009 06:27 (fifteen years ago)

Neither. I have always pulled out through the bottom of the left leg hole.

you'rine school (Jesse), Saturday, 30 May 2009 04:58 (fifteen years ago)

u lyin

i am rubber, t u.r.koglu (k3vin k.), Saturday, 30 May 2009 05:00 (fifteen years ago)

True story.

you'rine school (Jesse), Tuesday, 2 June 2009 01:13 (fifteen years ago)

guy

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 2 June 2009 01:19 (fifteen years ago)

I have always taken it for granted that the keyhole thing on briefs was vestigal. I had no idea anyone really used it.

For a time I tried over the top, but before and since I've been almost strictly through the left leg hole.

you'rine school (Jesse), Tuesday, 2 June 2009 01:48 (fifteen years ago)

why not right

mookieproof, Tuesday, 2 June 2009 01:49 (fifteen years ago)

Now that I think of it, probably b/c I'm right handed, so fingers come at my fly from the right, making the side of my underwear the quickest target.

I remember very clearly in 2nd grade seeing some unzipping and unbuttoning and going over the top and I was amazed. But I never did it.

you'rine school (Jesse), Tuesday, 2 June 2009 02:14 (fifteen years ago)

Also I remember a new boy at our school named Zachary, a name I had never heard before. Zachary and I were in the bathroom alone together and he said Hey, look, and he peed all over the urinals and walls.

you'rine school (Jesse), Tuesday, 2 June 2009 02:16 (fifteen years ago)

...I plead the fifth

ya'll are the ones who don't know things (Z S), Tuesday, 2 June 2009 03:45 (fifteen years ago)


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