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General update on stuff...

1. Adrian (aka @Versexx) (the other half of Jockstrap Central and my husband) just posted a poll in the Jockstrap Central News Forum asking for everyone's feedback on some new PUMP! jocks and jock briefs we may bring in. We'd appreciate your feedback. Here's the poll:


2. Working on the new Jockstrap Central website when I can and am working on the payment section of the checkout process and integrating our credit card processor and PayPal. Loving the new PayPal integration as customers will no longer have to leave our website to pay via PayPal (always a pet peeve of mine).

3. I finally started my chemo this week and so far it hasn't been too bad. I'm hoping it's not going to impact my work too much other than the inconvenience of going down to the hospital every two weeks. If I'm slow to respond or reply to guys here, that's probably the reason. The rest of the business is running as usual as Adrian is the one who handles the shipping, ordering and customer care.

4. With the unseasonal warm weather, I can see Spring bulbs starting to show their heads in the garden. A little ray of hope in the dead of our Canadian winter - I'll take it! Can't wait until Spring.

New Jockstrap Central Website update:

So, I just spent almost two weeks trying to connect to a new discounted courier API with most of my time trying to get tech support thanks to poorly written documentation. Well, I finally had a eureka! moment and figured it out so I'm once again able to move forward on the whole check out process. Hooking up to the courier API will give customer more (faster) shipping options.

But instead of wasting time and doing nothing waiting to get replies to my support tickets, I ended up finishing up the new Model Gallery so it not only has the original galleries but I've already added more models and more photos to it (thanks to the new system that allows me to update it much easier than before). Yay me!

I've also started working on the customer portal section which will include: 1. Review of current orders, previous orders. 2. view, edit and delete saved addresses 3. Wish list / Gift list (essentially two lists: one is personal and the other public. The personal (wish list) is for you to bookmark items you have your eye one. The public (gift list) is a list of items other people can buy you without divulging your real name or address - great for guys with social media followers.

Unfortunately, I'm not going to make my end of January launch date but at least I'm making good progress again.

Working on the new gallery for the new Jockstrap Central website and having to go through a lot of old models and photos. Forgot how much I love (and miss) our model Zack Acland.

(And before you jump to conclusions... he's not dead, just moved back to Australia).

*The new gallery is looking great. I'm not only populating it with our old photos but I've already added a tons of new photos - and once launched, it will make regularly updating it a breeze.

No one knows what lies ahead for any of us. Getting a cancer diagnosis is like having a 300 pound gorilla on your back. It screws with your mind and your everyday life. Good news, the cure rates are so much better now. You can beat it! Each day will get better. And soon that gorilla will have to find a new home. Thanks for all your hard work here and look forward to many more years here.

Bike57
Cancer survivor 18 years

Well, here we go again.

3 years ago I was diagnosed with colon cancer and was doing really well.... until now.

It's shown it's ugly head once more and I start chemo again in January. Ugh. So much for getting my ileostomy reversed - at least not anytime soon.

The good news is the chemo I have to do isn't the worse and there aren't too many side effects and I should be able to work through it all.

New Jockstrap Central website progress report:

Man, this is a slow process. In the old days, you built one site and that was it. Now you have to build a site that works (and looks good) for a Desktop, laptop, tablet (horizontal and vertical orientation) and mobile (horizontal and vertical orientation). So essentially 5 different websites.

The homepage is done, the thumbnail pages for brands and categories is done, the product page (with an improved photo viewer) is done. But the most important accomplishment is...

The search feature is implemented! Took me a week to get it working and to tweak it.

Now I'm on to the shopping cart page.

Of course, I'm having to work on this in between all my regular chores for Jockstrap Central - like launching our huge Black Friday sale (it started today).

HAPPY BIRTHDAY. Thanks for a great site.

Hey John,
Thank you for letting me know about Trent, still trying to wrap my head around that news. I don’t know if you can or if it’s allowed, but if any hot pics of Trent exist that you might be able to pass along I would be in your debit. He looks exactly like the guy that I lusted for in high school, that I could never have ( I realize that he isn’t because Trent would have to be 50 years old if he was, but the fantasy is nice)
Bleak and Melancholy,
Greg

New JC Website Progress Report:

Designing a responsive website is a pain in the ass. It's like having to design 4+ sites at the same time. But, I'm loving how it's turning out. And it will be mobile friendly.

I just implemented the new photo viewing mechanism and I'm loving it. Way better then the one on Jockstrap Central now. It's much like the one here on Your Jockstraps but even better.

This weeks main job was to design the new Model Gallery system. I think you're going to love it. With the new system, EVERY model will get a gallery as soon as we launch the first photos. It will allow me to easily add new photos to each model's gallery whenever I get some extra time to edit a few bonus photos.

Don't ask me for a launch date, it will be done when I'm done.

Posting without comment:

Happy Thanksgiving!!

This is a fantastic site that I just recently found...def one of, if not the best, jockstrap sites out there....for those with extreme Jockstrap fetishes... and I like my jockstraps well used so lots of those here....Thanks for you hard work and effort.

I'm really impressed with your work on the forum, site, estore - you are very appreciated man. It's nice to have an e community of guys obsessed with their jockstraps!

So funny!

A porn video just came across my Twitter feed and the premise is:

"Watch me exchange blowjobs with my straight roommate "

Of course, one of the guys is a model for us and the other is someone we're planning to shoot and I know for a fact...

They don't live together and neither of them is straight!

It's official!

I've started to design and code the new Jockstrap Central website! Spent the last few months catching up on learning and brushing up on design and coding skills and this week, I started actually coding. I'm so pumped!

Still going to be a few months to get it all done!

Yay! Adrian and I got our first Monkey Pox vaccine!

So far so good, no real side effects except the sudden urge to scratch under my arm and climb a tree.

I'm back.

We were in England for a family wedding and then hopped over to Paris for a whirlwind tour of that incredible city. Our first time there and I'm blown away
It's amazing what we accomplished in four days. No time for debauchery, just exploring and doing touristy things like the Palace of Versailles, Monet's home in Giverny and exploring Paris.

I'm blown away with how beautiful Paris is from an architecture and planning perspective. It's beyond words. I love Toronto but it's all modern filled with glass and metal and there's no respect for anything old so it's torn down and replaced with sterile skyscrapers. Paris is the complete opposite.

Can't wait to go back.

So much pressure. We just (soft) launched our new JC Athletic Air Stream Mesh Shorts and I'm working on the lead graphic for our email newsletter on Wednesday.

I'm been agonizing over these three options for the lead graphic. The designer in me would go for the first image for it's impact but the third image does a better job at communicating the complete collection of shorts. The second graphic is a compromise between the first and last.

This is why it takes me so long to get anything done!

Kids these days! Can't tell you how many times we post on Instagram and some young guy wants to know a model's Instagram page. When I tell them they the model doesn't have an Instagram page they don't believe me. Wait until I tell them they don't have a Tik Tok either - their world will end.

The only reason I'm on Instagram is for the business. We get very little traffic from it but the one thing we do get from it is... models. William Miguel, Travis Connor, Evan, Matty and Jacob Chance have all found us through Instagram.

A new one for Captain Obvious:

Someone just emailed us at Jockstrap Central asking if we are a gay friendly company. LOL!

All someone has to do is go to our About Us page to find out that owner John and Adrian are not only business owners but husbands - not to mention, have you read any of my product descriptions? Straight companies don't talk about bulges, back rooms, circuit parties, leather clubs, water sports, etc...

Unreal. Just found two new more European online stores using our images to sell Meyer Jockstraps.

At least one of them kept our branding on them. Sent them both removal notices.

Take your own damn photos!

look who err… what I’m doing!

Howdy John! Just curious how many members the site is up to now? Thanks for everything you do to make this community!

I long for the days when the Internet wasn't controlled by a handful of corporations who decide what is appropriate.

Google is no longer a search engine, it's a bunch of ads and links to Google's own properties and the large website's it favors like Amazon, Walmart, Wish and Wayfair. You have to go to the second page of links before you get to any "real" search results. Facebook (and IG) censors men's bare buttocks while allowing fake news, misinformation and harmful conspiracies to run rampant.

At least Twitter doesn't censor much but who knows what will happen if the whole Elon Musk thing goes through. I don't trust the man.

By the way, if you want a true search engine that will give you real search results, respect your privacy and won't track you and bombard you with ads, I highly recommend the following (turn off Safe Search in their settings):

Duck Duck Go: https://duckduckgo.com/

OneSearch: https://www.onesearch.com/


This rant was brought on by me trying to post this to Instagram:



It got rejected for being too sexually provocative so I changed it to this:



That got rejected for the same reason so I finally changed it to this:



What a waste of my time.

Just a quick, good news follow up on my health: The biopsy came back and the surgeon got everything, there's no need for radiation (which I was dreading). I have a follow up with the surgeon on June 20th but all should be ok as I'm healing well and as mentioned below, there hasn't been any pain despite sitting on my ass and working every day for hours on end.