There's a movie about this question:
"Men in tights" by Mel Brooks
this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2026
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He can speak with an English accent!
You lost your arms in battle! How terrible! But you grew some nice boobs!
It's true, the movie does address this.
Idk about mens leggings, didnt know they exist, but, women's leggings will pull things in and up. The are compression so it pulls in the extraneous bits. Hand down most comfortable pants ive ever worn.
I just assumed leggings for men were sweat pants.
Sweat pants are usually baggy thicker material, leggings like yoga pants are like if compressed socks were pants with less compression. Like super mans tights. I do want to add they do have special leggings that have stitching around the butt to increase lift. So not all of them are made the same, you can see the stitching its pretty obvious if its there
Doesn't answer your question, but there was a guy at the gym I used to go to that always wore white leggings. Dude was stacked, looked like a body builder in his 50s. I didn't notice how it fit his ass, mostly because he had a very small dick and balls that most definitely were lifted by the leggings. Pointed straight forwards and perfectly outlined. Everyone that went to that gym knew of him, and called him leggings guy.
They don't typically have the same stitching in the ass as women's leggings. They fit and feel like boxer briefs would around the ass.
What are you talking about!? The only people wearing leggings I've seen in the wild look like they are trying to store thousands of dollars worth of loose coins back there...
Idk where you live, but, were I am a lot of women wear them.
My underarmour sub-zero 3 and sub-zero 4 "leggings" def do not.
If i had to guess id say its the difference in stitching design to give dudes more nut room.
If you live anywhere cold and dont wanna spend the winter months cold, get the underarmour sub-zero "long johns" as i always called them but the design is way more leggings than long johns. They have tiers 1 thru 4 and with tier 4 on i can sit thru a December or January Bills game with no coat, only a jersy over the underarmour top amd the leggings under my jeans and im fuckin sweating when temps are in the teens. Thats 4 hours of tailgating before 3 to 4 hours in the stadium for the game where im basically sitting relatively still compared to hunting or snowboarding, outside, wind howling, and like i said, swamp butt im so warm in those longjohns
Maybe my leggings were purchased before the “scrunch butt” era… but no – they don’t do the cheek lift wedgie thing.