Adrian

How it started

I’m Adrian. I’m in my mid-thirties, married with two kids, and work a regular nine-to-five job that has me sitting, standing, moving around and putting my clothes, including my underwear, through all the ordinary demands of a day. My life is fairly ordinary, apart from perhaps the amount of time I give to underwear and the amount of money I spend on new pairs.

I started looking beyond the familiar multipacks because I was curious about how different underwear could feel. Briefs, boxer briefs, boxers, cheeky cuts, thongs and G-strings all found their way into my drawer. I still wear all kinds of underwear, but boxer briefs and thongs are my staples. Finding a pair I like has yet to cure the urge to try another.

Why thongs

I do not wear thongs exclusively, and boxer briefs and cheeky cuts still have a place in my drawer, but thongs are simply the style I keep coming back to.

Part of it is practical. Less fabric sits more cleanly beneath my work clothes, and a well-shaped pouch can give me support that other pairs don’t.

Part of it is not practical at all. I enjoy wearing something sexy beneath an otherwise ordinary workday. There is a private, slightly naughty charge to it, and that pleasure matters because it gives me a little extra confidence during the day, knowing that I’m wearing something special for myself and, frankly, no one else.

Why I started writing it down

As a self-professed thong connoisseur, I realized there were surprisingly few places to properly research men’s thongs, especially while they remain a taboo topic for many people. That matters because, in my experience, a badly fitting or poorly constructed thong can make itself felt much more than other underwear styles, and it is difficult to tell from a product page whether a pair will work for you.

Product pages tend to show underwear at its most flattering. They rarely explain what happens after several hours at a desk, where pressure builds, or whether a pouch that projects forward still feels good late in the day.

I wanted the kind of review I was already looking for: underwear worn more than once and evaluated honestly, photographed as it looks on a normal body, with a reviewer willing to call an expensive or much-hyped pair mediocre and explain why. So I started keeping better notes about the pairs I wore and sharing the useful parts.

One wearer, used consistently

My body and preferences are not universal. Keeping the wearer consistent, in this case me, still provides a useful point of comparison. If one pouch is roomier, one thong tail settles more easily, or one waistband becomes harder to ignore, the baseline has not changed between products.

I wear every pair, take the photographs, and make the final call on each review. The photos document fit; the writing explains what the pictures cannot show.