AIBU to object to my partner wearing his late father's underwear?

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As the title says, am I being unreasonable to object to my partner wearing his (late) father's underwear?

His father died a few years ago, and his mother gave him lots of quite nice clothes of his father's to have. I recently discovered that he'd also inherited his father's underwear which he is now wearing! He claims it has been washed countless times and is in good condition, so he doesn't get why I would object. But, I do....! Would you??

Totally agree with you. The days of wearing hand me down knickers from family members will appall the ones who didn't have to live this as normal. Guess what, we never caught any diseases, thay were boil washed in higher temperatures than a washing machine cycle now.

Not really.

I was recently wearing and binning pants because the heaviness of menopausal bleeding, the size of the clots, blood through tampons, pads, knickers and trousers in one gush...
Mum had a clearout and gave me a load of her old pants.

They were clean.

Haha yes, to be fair that would be odd. I don't have a partner to contend with.
I'd find it weird if my Mums old pants turned him on 🤣

I’m guessing she’s still alive tho so that makes it less weird I’d say?

I don't know about OP's case, but a large proportion of commonly-worn men's pants don't really have a gusset at all. It's just effectively a curtain of fabric that shields the free-dangling dangly bits, with a bifurcation some distance below them.

My SIL isn't a MNer, but she would doubtless chime far more with the MN hive mind than me.

When her children were very tiny, whenever they had any 'code brown' accidents in their pants, she would clean them up but bag up and throw the pants away in the bin, rather than washing them.

Then again, we used re-usable nappies for our DS - so we were well used to the concept of potentially pooey clothes going into the washing machine; although they always came out lovely and clean... because our washing machine worked as standard.

But she too will be dead at some stage in the next 100 years! We're mostly talking here about re-using pants where the previous owner was still alive when they last wore them, so what's the real difference?!

Unless you are secretly wanting to wear them yourself then I cannot find any reasonable objection. 😂
Why is it worrying you?
I personally would not wear cast off underwear, but would not be concerned at all if others did.