Has something changed concerning high school / jr high gym classes in the last few decades? As I recall it, if you were male, you learned about this when you started taking gym class in junior high (they call that middle school now, of course). You were told to buy an “athletic supporter”, and you wore just the jock strap under your gym shorts. A quick glance around the locker room would confirm that that was what everybody was doing.
No reason you COULDN’T wear underwear over it. Wearing it on top of the underwear somewhat reduces the effectiveness, for reasons already stated (the mesh pouch is intended to hold the testicles directly), but probably still helps.
For gym exercise these days, I don’t wear one. I wear briefs, and that works well enough. I’ve never liked boxers - I don’t like to walk around bouncing.
Eh, when I was in high school, I did Marching Band for most of my PE credits. I did a semester of Cross Country as a way of getting in shape before I applied for ROTC, but everybody there mostly just wore briefs I think (Cross Country Running, even as competitive as it is, does not typically require a cup to be worn)
I’m flabbergasted at how many adult males (many from the U.S.) don’t know the difference between and jack strap and cup, what they are for, why they are made they way they are etc. Didn’t you play sports in high school and college?
Hockey players wear a piece of equipment that multi-tasks very nicely. It’s basically compression shorts with a jockstrap built in. On the outside is a pouch that you can easily put a cup in and then take it out for washing. On the legs there are garters or velcro to hold up the socks. In the old days they wore a cup protector and a separate garter belt.
Just slipping a cup in your shorts isn’t going to work. It has to be held in place or it will move around and that’s no good.
As I mentioned, the only sport I took part in was cross-country running, for which most of us just wore regular underwear. Honestly I just thought the purpose of a jock strap was to hold the cup in place.
And all of the underwear I own (briefs) are made with spandex. These seem to do just as good of a job keeping the twins in control, as any jockstrap could. And they’re way more comfortable.
I wore a jockstrap during sports through Jr high and high school. In college I discovered that a Speedo swimsuit did the job just as well and breathed better than a jock.
Speedo’s had the added benefit of drying quickly (in like 5 min) so I could wear to the shower after a workout, take it off and rinse it in the shower and it would usually be dry and fresh and ready for the next workout before I re dressed. Anybody who’s ever had to wear a jock strap* twice * before laundering can appreciate the advantage of the speedo.
Yes it has. My children are in high school in a suburb of Washington, D.C., and my son is not required to wear a jock for phys ed. I was *required *to wear one starting in 7th grade (which was in a Baltimore suburb, 1970).
They also do not take showers. Apparently this is the norm throughout our county; I have no idea why. In middle school my kids actually had the option of paying a little extra for a towel service so you can swab the sweat off before you go to class. When I was in middle school and high school, showers were required. Towel snapping other kids’ asses was a great pastime. However, I will say that shower time really eats into the time available for the actual physical activity you are there for; we had 45-minute classes, so once your subtract changing clothes, getting out to the field and back, showering, getting dressed, you have about 15 minutes left for a soccer game.
I’ve been intending to get a jockstrap to wear while bicycling. My spandex bike shorts, despite being skin-tight, completely fail to hold the jewels in place. And all my underwear is boxers these days, which are really awkward under spandex bike shorts.
I ran literally thousands of miles and did lots of obstacle courses in 4 years of Army service. Never used a jock, only briefs. Worked just fine. I must have a fairly tiny package.
I wore a cup for a few days playing highschool football, but one of the guys escaped the confines of his protective bunker–mostly. Tossed the plastic after that and did fine with just a strap and a bit of vigilance.
I and many classmates managed to go completely through high school without ever owning a jock or cup or whatever. Unless you were on the football or hockey team, the general attitide of the PE instructor (a pro football type) was “grab a ball and go play something.”
It was quite funny when the last year of ny high schooling, the local school board realized what our (private) school was up to. They instituted a real PE program, and tried to teach us things like lacrosse and gymnastics. I think only about half of us actually managed to jump the vault horse (I didn’t).
I don’t know how it worked for other schools, but I probably learned more about jockstraps from sports movies and comedy shows than from real life.
(When I later took up jogging, plain briefs were more than sufficient.)
Why would they not wear underwear too? I suppose hygiene is not a big issue for that type of male that wears a jock…
I keep my gamete producers safely in my pelvis, like Goddess intended.
I have no idea if the guys in my high school work jock straps or cups. I do know we had showers, but generally no time to use them, although they were technically required. Many of us would literally walk, fully clothed, by the shower with a hand outstretched and get our hand wet. Our teacher would roll her eyes, but didn’t make us actually strip and bathe, except after swimming.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but I’m from Australia, and had no idea what a jockstrap was exactly for a long time. I can’t speak for the entire continent, but in Queensland jock straps weren’t a ‘thing’ anyone used.
This from a country that plays cricket where a ‘cup’ which by the way we call a box, is mandatory when batting, It was just usually shoved down the front of your briefs. (Sharing one is not encouraged ).
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