Undies under the Kilt

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Also a lot of parents. Personally I think Americans are a very prudish people, and would wish that it were not so.

i totally agree. we have taken it to an extreme. if we would just lighten up about it, we wouldn't see sex being used to sell things and other similar vices would decline. it bothers me to see that in TV censorship, more effort is put into "protecting" kids from sexuality than from violence. notice how men here are falling all over themselves to state that they recommend underwear around kids. i won't agree or disagree with that, but i will say that with my kids (ages 1 and 5), i put priority on shielding them from violence than sexuality. for what it is worth: nudity/exposure does NOT equal sex.

...Somehow when Paris Hilton went . . . when she didn't wear her knickers it was titillating and daring. If it'd been Brad Pitt, say, it would have been gross, disgusting and probably an indication of some perversion.

yep a common unquestioned double-standard. because we have outdoor plumbing i guess. and because of what gets left behind after the feminism movement.

regardless of what we do wear under our kilts, there is a "myth" in our culture about kilted men wearing nothing under there. i think people are threatened by this. the idea that the general public could be so close to something so dangerous is just too much for some. more subconsciously it is the public's fear of unrestrained, unchecked masculinity. it starts early in life too (from Dr. Wm Pollack's research):

Karen decided to send her daughter, Alison, to an all-girls school, but kept her son in a coeducational environment. The reason, she explained, was that her daughter needed to learn that 'all roles in society are open to women.' Her son, on the other hand, needed to learn in the company of girls because they would help to make him more 'sensitive and polished.' She was saying, in other words, that the presence of boys might have a toxic effect on her daughter, while the girls could help mitigate the noxious disposition of her son.

it all ties together. women can wear pants or skirts or whatever. they have that freedom now. but men don't have that freedom. we are expected to wear pants, and only pants (read: bifurcated garment). why else do we kilted men get so many strange looks and attention. so in addition to muggles being made nervous by the fact that there is such easy access to our manhood, they already knew from a distance that we are not afraid to be different.

bottom line: wear what you think is best for you and your places to be.

for me it is medical same reason as Knocko, and comfort. and for the record i have yet to flash anyone accidentally.