How Uncomfortable Is Wet Underwear In Cold Weather?

The most thorough scientific study on wet underwear research to date was published in the journal Ergonomics in 1994 under the title Impact of Wet Underwear on Thermoregulatory Responses and Thermal Comfort in the Cold. It wasn't inherently pointless because the study made an honest effort to examine the scientific basis for how people's comfort and general well-being are impacted by wet underpants.

However, the majority of its conclusions did not go beyond the apparent. Eight volunteers were made to wear various types of wet underwear and wait in a room for intervals of 60 minutes before being quizzed on a range of topics regarding their feelings. Wet underwear feels uncomfortable in the cold, as everyone has long known. The researchers came to the conclusion that wet underwear does, in fact, have a "significant cooling effect" on "thermoregulatory responses and thermal comfort."