Where are the sexy chonies?

Holiday season in retail is a nightmare. There is Christmas music play around the clock including not only original songs but also an entire series of remakes. Then there are the awful people that grace your work station: disgusting children and their overbearing mothers who think it's cute to make them wave at you and people that pay for their entire bill with change.

Anyway, I was noticing a tremendous increase in the purchase of lingerie. This is a common theme, peaking during February but there is also a dramatic increase around the holidays. Tons of women looking for ways to dress up their bodies as gifts to their partners. This does not seem to be of much concern to men. After acres of sheer panties I occasionally ring up boy undies, which are typically simple cotton briefs.

So what's my point? Well world, I am frustrated. When did we decide that women were the only ones that had to dress up in the bedroom? You'd think after years of matching bras to panties, satin night gowns, and lace thongs up our asses that there would be something men would have to contribute. I swear to you now that it would be handjob city in my room if my partner went to bed with silk boxers. Yet despite a wide array of silky drawers at my job, the only time I ever come into contact with their soft goodness are when a woman is buying them for her partner...what gives?  There are a ton of jokes abou women "letting themsevles" go when they partner up by trading in their cheeky boy shorts for comfy granny panties yet there doesn't seem to be an equal counterpart for men.

So today, while I folded hundreds of lacy "unmentionables" for my eager patrons I became overwhelemed with questions: Is this strictly a matter of gender? Or is it a product of heterosexual ideologies in our society? Do gay men have similar dynamics around undies in their relationships?  and on the flip side, does that sexy undies number double in lesbian couples? And why does this matter anyway? is lingerie just another product of consumer culture? Is it anti-woman, making us into an objectified "species"? And despite that, is it not our right to explore our sexualities by playing dress up even if it is so heavily gendered? I don't really have any answers yet, what do you all think?