wtf?
All i get is video that could be a still of a tick.
Ticks will get in your butt with or without jocks.

Say it taint so, Jacko???

On our first multi day hike together Invisible Man got one on his scrotum.

And you know this how?

His mother removed it when we got home and he found it. He was 15. He prepared and then called her. She saw 1square cm of skin.

It's your story, bubba, you can tell it however you like

I had one latch on to the end of my pecker one time. I removed it, but it was a rather traumatizing discovery to say the least.

P.S. Tick bites itch. Bad. Y'all can figure out the rest of your own.

vibrators are multi use items.

At the time I only wanted to get the tick off.

Correct. Only thing is you can't spray your self with permithrin but your clothing can be sprayed.

Commando has NOTHING to do with ticks finding their way anywhere.

I had stinging nettle float up my surfing shorts and sting my boys-talk about walking on water. Now that was painful.

Do ticks bite other ticks?

So true, I had one on the very tip of my....not my finger. Had one on the palm of my hand also, that one itched for two months....thankfully the other one did not itch too bad.

I bet everyone with a pair that's been in the woods much has been down that road.

Close, but no cigar. The only time I ever saw my dad light a cigarette was to get the tick off my upper thigh.

I don't think I've ever got a tick on my you-know-whats, but for the last few years, I've worn permethrin-treated clothing.

I'm seldom tempted to go commando. I'd be more tempted to expose my compression shorts. They don't chafe and they wick. They'd be a lot more comfortable by themselves than my hiking shorts would be!

A fifteen-year-old should be able to maintain his own equipment.

On going commando: I recall being on the University of Illinois campus in the 1980s, wearing cycling shorts (it's crazy to wear anything underneath those, they're chamois-llned for a reason) because I was either just heading out for a ride or just returning from one. One of the local street-corner preachers spotted me mid-rant, and latched onto me as one of those eeeevil ho-mo-sexuals! (Huh?) He held me up as a bad example for the next few minutes of sermon. I think there was something about my figure in cycling shorts in those days that caught his attention and roused puzzling and conflicted emotions.

On why not to go commando: I once had the seat of my hiking shorts blow out, climbing the ladders on Slide Mountain, right in front of John Burroughs's great-granddaughter. She was much too much of a lady to let on that she'd noticed. But I had black compression shorts on underneath, so stayed reasonably modest.

On going about outdoors in undies: TOS has at least one picture of me in my underwear (plus tuque and boots). If memory serves, I was just about to head outside, dressed as I was, to brush my teeth and drain my kidneys, when Teacher surprised me by flashing a picture. I think in the picture I'm putting toothpaste on a brush. with a mug of water on the bunk next to me.

Side remark, tangentially related: I remember a thread on TOS once about mooning the Cog. I said that I'd be tempted, if I ever did Mt Washington again, to appliqué a large crescent moon on the seat of my baselayer, so that I could present my fundament to the train, lower my trousers, and expose only my contempt.

True dat!

I've hiked both with and without underwear, ticks weren't the consideration, comfort and temperature were.
I always assume ticks are a possibility and check as best I can.