This isn’t a particularly hygienic thing to admit, but I’ve been known to wear a pair of underwear longer than one day. It’s very infrequent, but it happens. Sometimes I go to sleep forgetting to remove the skivs, wake up late, and slide on some jeans and head out the door, completely oblivious to the fact that I’m wearing the same underwear from the day before. Now that I have that off my chest, it does beg the question: How many days in a row can you wear underwear without, like, things getting dangerous down there? Does it really matter as much as we think it does?

Does wearing the same pair for more than one day at a time put you in greater danger of developing some sort of infection?The short answer is yes, it does matter how long you wear the same pair of underwear. Consider this: Underwear is basically a hammock for whatever might be coming out of your private parts during the day. Be it discharge, menses, sweat, or some other kind of bodily residue, the cloth acts as a catch-all.This isn’t a particularly hygienic thing to admit, but I’ve been known to wear a pair of underwear longer than one day. It’s very infrequent, but it happens. Sometimes I go to sleep forgetting to remove the skivs, wake up late, and slide on some jeans and head out the door, completely oblivious to the fact that I’m wearing the same underwear from the day before. N