Hey Joe! Sucks to get old huh? Are you in the USA or elsewhere? The term underwear for y-fronts and boxers and the like has been used in the US for years, At least as long as I can remember the term was commonplace. You might wear an undershirt or a T-shirt under your shirt but the doobies under your pants were underwear. But there are other "rules" of sorts here as well.

I guess when I look back 60 years it kinda' went like this..........Men wore underwear or boxer shorts. The term as just "boxers" has become popular over the past few years and they seemto no longer really be treated as underwear at all with even may young women wearing them as well. The "briefs" or "y-fronts" were called underwear or occasionally "Whitey-Tightys." when I was in junior high, the term "U-Trou" came along and has has been around some since.

Women were a different story. Younger women have always worn "panties" but after a certain age it seems they tend to refer to them as underwear. I dunno' what age that happens at but generally by 50 or so panties are a thing of the past. And even if your wife still has some really sexy ones, they become underwear as in, "I can't find those lacey red and black underwear."

Panties was always a vaguely illicit kind of word for guys. When you were in your teens a group of guys might use the word a lot but with a girl or in mixed company back in the 50's it wasn't said. So when you were going for "Third Base" you had to be careful as to not only what you DID and how, but what you said as well. Lines like "Can we just slide 'these' down a bit?" were heard in every backseat at every Drive-In. And there was no sliding anything unless she agreed. Often though nothing was said. The guy would sort of clumsily pull a little and make odd moaning/crying sounds so she knew he was "pleading." A girl knew how to tacitly agree by a quick lift of her hips and if the hips didn't go up, it was time to go home. Well maybe another half hour of French kissing and boob play.........and one more try to steal third.

Damn but it DOES suck to get old...................***sigh***.........

Spaw