Underwear Under Running Shorts?

The last time I went commando, I was in high school and the lining of the short was the same nylon tricot that used to makeup all racing singlets.

Stan was bouncing around down there and rubbing up against the fabric. Pretty soon he got rubbed so raw that he was bleeding right beside the urethral opening. Urination was quite painful for a couple of days.

I have always worn a jock or some sort of little slingshot deal. In a pinch these days, I will throw on my wife's panties (not thongs)

I always run just using the liner, but I've noticed, especially when it gets humid, that more chaffing tends to occur. Any suggestions?

Bodyglide.

that chafing is chub rub. lose some of the chub and the chafing will go away...

all kidding aside, make sure your shorts have been washed or at least rinsed in the shower. i get some bad chafing if there's any salt from previous runs.

as for the topic, once i started wearing actual running shorts, i never wore underwear unless it was cold. i buy shorts with the liner being the most important item. it has to be big enough to be comfortable, snug enough to keep the balls in place, and the right material to avoid chafing my penis. your liner IS your underwear. good shorts have great liners.

Yeah, I have had to now for several years because of the chafing, and well actually the biggest reason is that when you get older and you wear them around the house, some of us always dribble after we piss and it leaves a wet mark on the front and our wives laugh at us....

You know that's true.

Speaking as a female runner: I had the vague impression that men often did, but women almost never did. But I have learned this is not the case. A large minority (at least) of both sexes seem to wear underclothing.

I used to. Can't stand wearing underwear now...way too much fabric. Sometimes my hip flexors start playing games if I put too much fabric over top of them, so shorts with liners are really the way to go.

Plus, I can barely stand the heat as it is outside. I have to wonder what sort of punishment all you cotton underwear guys are going through.

I am surprised no one has addressed running-induced shrinkage yet.

When I run, everything shrinks (like a frightened turtle) into a much less flappable, child-like package.

It pretty much eliminates the need for additional support beyond the liner.

I would never want my lady to rip my shorts off immediately after I finished a run. She might get the idea that it's not everything it could be, when, in fact, it's everything it should be, and more.

I think it's because all the blood and fluids are diverted to heart, lungs, and muscles, leaving the johnson a dehydrated, shriveled shadow of itself.

please discuss.

I wear underwear under shorts for three reasons:

1. Always have.

2. My running shorts (and underwear) tend to get torn up in the crotch over time; it happens faster when I'm not wearing underwear, and underwear is cheaper.

3. I wear underwear for one day before I throw it into the laundrey pile -- I wear running shorts several days in a row without washing them.

eds wrote:

Yeah, I have had to now for several years because of the chafing, and well actually the biggest reason is that when you get older and you wear them around the house, some of us always dribble after we piss and it leaves a wet mark on the front and our wives laugh at us....

You know that's true.

i do know. i'm cool with the pee spot. by the end of a run, shorts feel like a diaper anyway, so what's a little pee?

yes wrote:

"Boxers by day, briefs during runs."

That was dumb.

Never. Liners work just fine. I want to be wearing as little as possible running in spring/summer/fall.

I don't think it's dudes with industrial strength equipment who need the extra support, I think it's just the opposite. If you don't have enough stuff to fill out your liner, that's where you flop around and get into trouble.

You can wear undies or a jock to fix this, or you can buy the right size shorts. Last decade or more everyone seems to want all their clothes to be baggy, and probably some guys are reluctant to buy size small because, well, they wouldn't feel manly then. I was a little slow on the draw to switch from medium to small after losing weight in my first year of running, but once I did I got plenty of support.

Totally. People who think they need more support than the liners offer are more likely than not simply buying shorts that are too big for them.

Frat Boy wrote:

Adidas are the worst liners.

I have never worn a pair of adidas shorts that I could have gone commando with any sense of security.

Brooks are okay, but asics are best.

i will second that about adidas liners sucking. i have had numerous embarassing situations where either my balls or my penis or both have just fallen out of the liner and no amount of adjusting will do any good until the running shrinkage sets in. i mean i've had it happen on the homestretch of races at meets, running down the sidewalk, all sorts of places. i've finally given up on adidas shorts.

the magic rat wrote:

i will second that about adidas liners sucking....i've finally given up on adidas shorts.

Can you explain this? I've never worn Adidas shorts, so I want to make sure I don't buy any pairs that are similar. How does it happen that you come out of your shorts? Is there just very little elasticity to the edge of the lining, or does it wear away quickly? I assume it just sort of hangs loosely, in which case it's easy to flop out. But all running shorts I've run in are elastic enough that no speed or amount of running could forceably pull the lining away from your skin, allowing your junk to get free.

I'll never forget what a friend said to me regarding shrinkage. We were 7 or 8 miles into the Motorola marathon when he had to make a pit stop. Upon finishing and rejoining the race he commented, that he hardly had anything to grab onto during the pit stop!

. . wrote:

I've found that you get used to the "pain" after a couple of runs. Very much like that pain you get when you've had a shag after a period of abstinence. Specific training, thats what its all about. Once you've got used to the commando feel then you'll never go back!

I actually ran commando for a couple of years. Just recently, I noticed that there were some pains down there. That's why I hazard the guess that the lining might be wearing out in the shorts.

tqx wrote:

Can you explain this? I've never worn Adidas shorts, so I want to make sure I don't buy any pairs that are similar. How does it happen that you come out of your shorts? Is there just very little elasticity to the edge of the lining, or does it wear away quickly?

Well, when you get a good pair of shorts, the lining kind of feels like shrink wrap. It hugs you all over, and keeps you snug.

Adidas always seems to have loose liners, like it is just shorts material. Nothing stretchy or shrinky about it. That might make zero sense, but it is the best way i can describe it.

I actually purchased a pair of adidas shorts at one point that I had to cut the liner out of b/c it just felt like a second pair of shorts under the shorts.

The guy above who claims it is people with small packages that cannot fill out the liner is only half right. It is people with fat asses that fill out the liner, it has nothing to do with the "package." Maybe he will see where we are comign from if he ups his mileage and loses the junk in the trunk.

i dont wear underwear. ever. not under running shorts, or jeans or anything. used to, but then i thought, "hey i'm running commando, why not go commando all the time?"