Who do you think would sponser such research?

fancy undies on a fancy bloke, (click image for source)

While the survey found 46 per cent of men followed their mother’s advice and were never caught out and about without clean undies on, you could fill Suncorp Stadium more three times over with the number of Australian blokes who admitted to wearing the same pair of undies for a week or more.

The survey found a discrepancy between the sort of underwear men liked to wear and the sort of underwear that women liked to see men in.

About two-thirds of men wear briefs, and only one in five wears fitted box shorts. Most women, however, prefer men in fitted boxers, and only one in three want to see men in their briefs.

The G-string is one area where men and women agree. Only 1 per cent of women want to see men in a G-string and, in a statistical stroke of good fortune, only 1 per cent of men are happy to wear one.

The survey was commissioned by Bonds, and Bonds ambassador Pat Rafter has taken a stand against repeat brief offenders, calling on men to update their undies or at least use a washing machine.

Like a lot of blokes I am  ambivalent about the nature of clothing in general and underwear in particular. I am a definite believer in functionality first and fashion a very distant  second.  None the less I found this piece rather funny and if you look beyond the faux disgust that many men pragmatically decide that a daily change of underpants is not essential, what we have here is a cynical attempt to improve sales from the underwear manufacturer Bonds who paid for this survey.

Frankly given the fact that the Christmas madness is closing in fast it is a rather cruel thing to do. No one I know likes the idea of getting gifts of underwear or socks for Christmas. Such gifts may be well-meaning but they miss the point about gift giving for that festival. I have always maintained that personal gifts should be things  that are indulgent and outside the day-to-day necessities of life. Underwear falls into the necessities category for most blokes and you can bet that they would rather have a bottle of their favourite tipple than fancy boxers any day.

So if you are considering a gift for your  significant bloke and you think that he will love some fancy Reg Grundies  just don’t give in to that thought for more than a second, buy him something for his fishing tackle box, tools for his collection in the shed, a shiny new boy toy, even a pile of steaming dung (if he is a gardener    ), anything but underwear or socks.

You know it makes sense Comrades