Inverted Y

I replied…

My access to vintage briefs (eBay) and fellow admirers (Xtube, Tumblr, Caffmoss) was only possible within the last 6 or 7 years. When I was actually young and my deep fascination with Y fronts was combined with insatiable youthful horniness, my only satisfaction was through furtive glances in the changing rooms, looking at the underwear pages in catalogues and fingering the packages of Jockeys in departments stores. Even when I could afford to buy these masculine pants, i felt conscious as the full rise traditional white style was so out of fashion vs the coloured and patterned skimpy briefs which most men wore - I believed i would seem odd if I were to be seen in them. I guess you had the advantage in that white or blue/white Ys were the norm.

It was similar with porn, just the odd magazine which were almost always a disappointment, filled with slim, brown, shiny and smooth skinned young guys, really not worth the embarrassment and trouble to get hold of them. I recall instead keeping a newspaper cutting of a report concerning a burly middle aged gangster who had been arrested. The picture showed him standing, stripped and cuffed, wearing just his dark socks and full rise Y fronts (probably navy) which sat under his proud belly and had a very well packed pouch.

It wasn’t until I was in my forties, on my first trip to New York while browsing the racks in a Greenwich Village book store that i first laid eyes on Bear magazine, featuring beefy guys with short haircuts, facial and body hair, the photos set in garages, workshops, the woods. That other men appreciated this naturally masculine look was a revelation to me - I came back early one morning and bought all the issues they had to sneak them into my suit case. I still remember my first flip through the pages, stroking myself in rapturous amazement at images of a middle aged, strong armed mechanic with furry thighs and never seen before bushy black pubic hair sprouting out of his greasy white jock strap….. it continued, hornilly…