This is what wearing pants to bed does to your private part

If you wear underwear in bed, you could be turning your bum crack and private parts into a sweltering breeding ground for skin infections. ‘Severe chafing’ can ensue, an expert warns and men could be risking fertility
problems.

Gynaecologist Dr Alyssa Dweck says, ‘I often tell my patients to sleep without underwear.’ Dweck warns that if the area ‘is constantly covered especially by a fabric that’s not moisture- wicking or absorbent, moisture collects, creating the perfect breeding ground for bacteria or yeast.’ Not only could that make women more susceptible to thrush, but it could also.

Dweck suggests that if women do wear pants in bed, they should be – ahem – larger designs.
She says, ‘If there’s ever a time to break out the granny panties, this would be it.
For men, the outcome can be even more chilling.

Dr Brian Steixner – Director of the Institute for Men’s Health at Jersey Urology Group – says that male underwear sleepers risk not only chafing – but fertility problems too.
Steixner says: ‘Your nether regions need to be just the right temperature in order to optimise sperm production. ‘More bacteria makes for a higher likelihood that any chafed or irritated skin down there becomes infected.’