Lacrosse Jocks & Cups

[jocksnsocks2002]

Gentlemen, I apologize if I sound like a broken record (this expression, of course, also dates me back to an age when phonographs had adjustments for 78rpm). Somewhere along the way, the wearing of jockstraps to protect the loins was purloined by a very powerful, albeit negative force. One member on this site lambasted me for repeating "propaganda from the 1950s" about the reason for EVERY male to wear a properly fitting jockstrap. To the best of my knowledge, the male anatomy has remained unchanged since that time, so why did the attitude shift from one extremity to the opposite against wearing jockstraps as part of preventative sports medicine?
Unless and until WE - yes, the gentlemen who have been raised to wear a jockstrap for all the correct, healthy reasons - unless and until WE join forces through this wonderful website, to bring jockstraps back into the rightful position as the primary equipment for sports medicine, then we are doomed to watch the plummet from millions of jockstraps sold annually to all males down to a few of us who "remember when" and a few more for whom jockstraps are now only associated with a particular fetish.
I appeal to members who have a background in sports medicine, to members who have a background in journalism, to members to have a background in sales in marketing, to collaborate so that those few, negative articles which were posted a generation ago in a few journals but which have contributed ever since to the dearth of jockstrap usage and sales, might be soundly redacted. We need to present medical, scientific data, and we need to present it with the maximum effectiveness so that this very present generation is not injured either through the physical loss of a testicle or the longer-term issue of low sperm count and erectile dysfunction (issues which, I think, are directly related to the ignorant choice of not wearing a jockstrap when engaged in strenuous activities - as taught in the 1950s propaganda, sorry).
How, then, can we collaborate through this excellent forum (thank you, John!) so that the professionals in our midst are able to prepare and to present credible documentation and acceptable data points, and in turn, convince males (who anatomy has not changed) about the long-term health benefits and immediate safety when wearing a jockstrap?
Gentlemen, I believe that we should make this our collective Christmas Present to the next generation.
Thank you for once again listening to me. My prayers are with the young athletes and to their parents so that they will all be enlightened about jockstraps and minimize injuries in the New Year.
Thoughts?

 

[Opinionman]

The PROBLEM is that there is so much tawdry JUNK being touted in high-price adversising by big-box stores and sleazy gear manufacturers whose only concern is maximising PROFIT that finding DECENT protective gear like properly-sized CUPS and pouches (jock- or brief-) is an exercise in frustration and unless the boy/man is exceptionally sharp about the FIT they inevitable end up with CRAP. What is really needed is a unit in Middle School «Family Life» courses where there is INFORMED discussion of the importance of protecting now-blossoming «Family Jewels» and how important it is to protect them, and what PROPER protection consists of. If they can have hands-on lessons in CONDOM-fitting.... The internet's «parenting» and «amateur sports» websites and blogs are overloaded with BAD (actually DANGEROUS) «advice». I try to correct these whenver I stumble on them but I really doubt they're ever corrected. It's a miracle there aren't more disasters — or are they just considered «embarrassing» like the media's «lower body injuries» and HIDDEN.

I think "Tawdry Junk" would be a great name for a band. (and possibly a drag queen). After all, I think there's a band called "Jockstrap"

 

[Opinionman]

Yeah, the Religious Right and others of that ilk would prefer abject IGNORANCE (like themselves) to any kind of ENLIGHTENMENT. And of course the only «truth» comes from the mouth of their «pastor» who more often than not hasn't even the basic concept of Critical Thinking and whose sole source of «wisdom» is a book whose contents are highly contradictory, a product of countless «revisions» coloured by the prevailing mores of their time, and, as my father oft opined: The Bible is like a mirror; if a fool looks in he gets a perfect reflection. So «America», one of the richest countries in the world, has some of the lowest levels of academic achievement, one of the highest levels of death due to preventable causes (including insane GUN DEATHS) — errr.. is it any wonder boys lose their testicles to preventable injuries. I wonder what the promoters of «barefoot & pregnant» have to say about that?

Ironically, I have to say "Amen" to that! ; )

 

[BULGEHOUND]

Gentlemen, I apologize if I sound like a broken record (this expression, of course, also dates me back to an age when phonographs had adjustments for 78rpm). Somewhere along the way, the wearing of jockstraps to protect the loins was purloined by a very powerful, albeit negative force. One member on this site lambasted me for repeating "propaganda from the 1950s" about the reason for EVERY male to wear a properly fitting jockstrap. To the best of my knowledge, the male anatomy has remained unchanged since that time, so why did the attitude shift from one extremity to the opposite against wearing jockstraps as part of preventative sports medicine?
Unless and until WE - yes, the gentlemen who have been raised to wear a jockstrap for all the correct, healthy reasons - unless and until WE join forces through this wonderful website, to bring jockstraps back into the rightful position as the primary equipment for sports medicine, then we are doomed to watch the plummet from millions of jockstraps sold annually to all males down to a few of us who "remember when" and a few more for whom jockstraps are now only associated with a particular fetish.
I appeal to members who have a background in sports medicine, to members who have a background in journalism, to members to have a background in sales in marketing, to collaborate so that those few, negative articles which were posted a generation ago in a few journals but which have contributed ever since to the dearth of jockstrap usage and sales, might be soundly redacted. We need to present medical, scientific data, and we need to present it with the maximum effectiveness so that this very present generation is not injured either through the physical loss of a testicle or the longer-term issue of low sperm count and erectile dysfunction (issues which, I think, are directly related to the ignorant choice of not wearing a jockstrap when engaged in strenuous activities - as taught in the 1950s propaganda, sorry).
How, then, can we collaborate through this excellent forum (thank you, John!) so that the professionals in our midst are able to prepare and to present credible documentation and acceptable data points, and in turn, convince males (who anatomy has not changed) about the long-term health benefits and immediate safety when wearing a jockstrap?
Gentlemen, I believe that we should make this our collective Christmas Present to the next generation.
Thank you for once again listening to me. My prayers are with the young athletes and to their parents so that they will all be enlightened about jockstraps and minimize injuries in the New Year.
Thoughts?

Well, for starters, let's lobby for a return to QUALITY, WELL-FITTING, and COMFORTABLE jockstraps. Throughout its long history, the JOCKSTRAP has had a few notable successes but a larger number of failures. In my vast (former, alas!) collection of jockstraps I count probably a couple of dozen that were TRULY COMFORTABLE, durable, and reasonably accessible — i.e.: could be found SOMEwhere in any 2-drugstore town. I can't get into all the individual items here but what I DO remember with fondness is the products of J.B.Flaherty. Their «BUB» jocks were almost indestructible, and had FIT and COMFORT like a favourite glove. The original Bike#10s and B&B A3's were also comfortable but not as well-fitting nor as durable. The replacements of these suffered continual degradations of quality and the SIZING, which used to be more-or-less reliable became a JOKE with many XXL marked items being too small to comfortably fit a child. Proffered in armor-plate plastic packages, one only discovered the deception after purchase, and of course no return allowed. THAT, not considering POUCH SIZE, which, according to COCKSOX's website (and I agree wholeheartedly!) is an important factor. The absolutely ridiculous one-size-must-serve-all» of the typical CUP is just one more reason why jocks and cups are eschewed by many young men. There's SO MUCH JUNK out there one could end up with a maxed-out Credit Card and a trunkful of useless crap. SO, #1 let's lobby for QUALITY, PROPERLY DESIGNED (incliding multiple SIZES) CUPS and JOCKS. [Chapter 2 to follow: The Amazing Panoply of Male Anatomy and why JOCKS need to be designed accordingly!]

 

[BULGEHOUND]

The Amazing Panoply of Male Anatomy and why JOCKS & CUPS need to be designed accordingly!
Line up 30 or so young men and inspect their genitals. Flaccid penises ranging from chestnut-sized stubs to full-blown heavy-hanging bananas. Testicles ranging from peanuts, through cherries, plums, and even peaches and larger; some of them hanging almost to the knees. Now HOW can a one-size CUP ever be anatomically correct protection-wise let alone not offputtingly UNCOMFORTABLE. When some jock pouches (supposedly «universally sized») in reality are so small that an endowed guy's jewels simply burst out of them, and the modestly-endowed guy's jewels get lost in huge folds of fabric, how is THAT encouraging their use? Then there's jewels which are so high and tight that a jock is really only a decoration, and then some lowhangers that hang so low they're in a Danger Zone and absoultely NEED «support».

SO... visit any Department Store brassière department and see HUNDREDS of discreet sizes and shapes — «cup» sizes from AAA thru FFFFF or whatever. Then visit even the ubiquitous «Wall of Jocks» in a sports store and count the HANDFUL of choices with the only sizing being an often INACCURATE waistband measurement. Brassière Shops have «fitters» trained to select the precise size/shape of the garment. But I guess «fitting» a man's jewels is a little too close to the bone for the double-standard types. It's pretty far-fetched to expect any young man to espouse jocks and cups if his every experience with them is tainted by scarcity, lack of choice, embarrassment, DISCOMFORT and FAILURE — he can get most of that with the Garment-from-SADIST-LAND: Compression Shorts. If women can have endless choices to support their mammary glands, then MEN should have equally resplendant access to supports for their PROCREATIVE glands without which the mammary glands would be useless. Ayyyyy-[wo]men!

 

[Gearedtoplay]

Why your athletic son needs to wear a cup

Wearing an athletic cup during high-impact sports like football can prevent a groin injury. Here’s what to know and how to find the right one.

www.geisinger.org

 

[BULGEHOUND]

Why your athletic son needs to wear a cup

Wearing an athletic cup during high-impact sports like football can prevent a groin injury. Here’s what to know and how to find the right one.

www.geisinger.org

Good as far as it goes but there were NO proper directions for SAFE WEARING and not enought info ree types and sizes of cups. It the typical «Sports Shop» it's highly unlikely that a young jock/cup-phobic athlete is going to even SEE what he needs let alone actually get the ACCURATE assistance he needs. Ironically, the best «fitting» experience I've ever had was in a little mom & pop shop in England where bthe DAUGHTER was on the counter. When I asked what CUPS (there called «boxes») they carried she queried me about the contact activities I would experience and then produced a large box of sample cups for me to peruse. She then advised me that her boyfriend, who was an adept of multiple contact sports had several «boxes» but that his favourite was «this one». Being the avid collector I decided to take one of each which she wrapped up without batting an eye and then remarked: ENJOY! The ONLY time I even came close to that kind of EXPERT service was when, in the 80s I visited the showroom of J.B.Flaherty in NYC. The salesman took pains to show me their complete line of jocks and cups and I left with multiples of the several of the ones I knew I would wear with confidence and comfort. I still have the BUB cupjock from that time and it STILL has good (and COMFORTABLE!) elastic although I long ago replaced its old-fashioned «flat» cup with an OBC cup which at the time had the most room available. Now, there's the NuttyBuddy MONGO — but, of course NOT IN CANADA!. To get one of those magnum-sized cups you have to cross the border and SEARCH even there in «America» .

 

[BULGEHOUND]

HOW to WEAR a CUP — S-A-F-E-L-Y.....

There are scores of «advice» sites which purport to teach «how to wear a protective cup» most of which are written by people who have never worn a cup in a contact situation. A lot of that advice is faulty and even DANGEROUS. Here's a protocol based on career-long injury-feee experience under extreme contact situations as a Hockey Goalie...

1. put on a really snug JOCK [or a pair of very snug pouch-briefs] over your BARE jewels — NO whitey-tighties, tights, or other «intermediates»!
2. select a STURDY cup which completely but snugly encases your pouched-up jewels
3. Insert that CUP in a cupjock [or compression shorts with a cup slot] which — and TEST this!!! — HOLDS the CUP without slipping around.
*** Compression Shorts without a well-designed CUP SLOT will allow the cup to slide into a dangerous position. Crushed nuts anyone?
With this protocol you should feel ALMOST invincible — but remember, even the best protected contact athlete can still get injured.
As a Hockey Goalie I always wore a Professional-grade Goalie Jock (minus the superfluous cup) OVER the above protection for the added strategic PADDING it provided. Now the BIG question for me is how those MMA fighters maanage to keep a cup IN PLACE under the very revealing SPEEDO-like briefs some of them wear in the ring. Anyone have an exposé?

 

[Opinionman]

Well, for starters, let's lobby for a return to QUALITY, WELL-FITTING, and COMFORTABLE jockstraps. Throughout its long history, the JOCKSTRAP has had a few notable successes but a larger number of failures. In my vast (former, alas!) collection of jockstraps I count probably a couple of dozen that were TRULY COMFORTABLE, durable, and reasonably accessible — i.e.: could be found SOMEwhere in any 2-drugstore town. I can't get into all the individual items here but what I DO remember with fondness is the products of J.B.Flaherty. Their «BUB» jocks were almost indestructible, and had FIT and COMFORT like a favourite glove. The original Bike#10s and B&B A3's were also comfortable but not as well-fitting nor as durable. The replacements of these suffered continual degradations of quality and the SIZING, which used to be more-or-less reliable became a JOKE with many XXL marked items being too small to comfortably fit a child. Proffered in armor-plate plastic packages, one only discovered the deception after purchase, and of course no return allowed. THAT, not considering POUCH SIZE, which, according to COCKSOX's website (and I agree wholeheartedly!) is an important factor. The absolutely ridiculous one-size-must-serve-all» of the typical CUP is just one more reason why jocks and cups are eschewed by many young men. There's SO MUCH JUNK out there one could end up with a maxed-out Credit Card and a trunkful of useless crap. SO, #1 let's lobby for QUALITY, PROPERLY DESIGNED (incliding multiple SIZES) CUPS and JOCKS. [Chapter 2 to follow: The Amazing Panoply of Male Anatomy and why JOCKS need to be designed accordingly!]

I wore my Bub/Flarico in the mid 80s and I agree with your assessment. Super comfortable. I used to wear it in the college sauna that I belonged to and had scores of circle jerks there, I kid you not

 

[jocksnsocks2002]

Well, for starters, let's lobby for a return to QUALITY, WELL-FITTING, and COMFORTABLE jockstraps. Throughout its long history, the JOCKSTRAP has had a few notable successes but a larger number of failures. In my vast (former, alas!) collection of jockstraps I count probably a couple of dozen that were TRULY COMFORTABLE, durable, and reasonably accessible — i.e.: could be found SOMEwhere in any 2-drugstore town. I can't get into all the individual items here but what I DO remember with fondness is the products of J.B.Flaherty. Their «BUB» jocks were almost indestructible, and had FIT and COMFORT like a favourite glove. The original Bike#10s and B&B A3's were also comfortable but not as well-fitting nor as durable. The replacements of these suffered continual degradations of quality and the SIZING, which used to be more-or-less reliable became a JOKE with many XXL marked items being too small to comfortably fit a child. Proffered in armor-plate plastic packages, one only discovered the deception after purchase, and of course no return allowed. THAT, not considering POUCH SIZE, which, according to COCKSOX's website (and I agree wholeheartedly!) is an important factor. The absolutely ridiculous one-size-must-serve-all» of the typical CUP is just one more reason why jocks and cups are eschewed by many young men. There's SO MUCH JUNK out there one could end up with a maxed-out Credit Card and a trunkful of useless crap. SO, #1 let's lobby for QUALITY, PROPERLY DESIGNED (incliding multiple SIZES) CUPS and JOCKS. [Chapter 2 to follow: The Amazing Panoply of Male Anatomy and why JOCKS need to be designed accordingly!]

Dear Bulgehound,
You are spot-on correct with regard to the superlative quality of the J. B. Flaherty "Flarico" jockstraps and cups from our contemporary upbringing. I preferred the venerable Bike #10, wheel logo, because my only "complaint" against the Flarico was that it had inflexible leg-straps. Nevertheless, I think that the common denominator back then was the honeycomb weave of the waistband material, and the porous weave of the pouch in the regular jockstrap.
If I remember correctly, Flarico included a dark-forest-green cup, and I had the "small" size as well as the "adult" size in my collection at one point.
Your comments about the limited options with regard to sizing for men's supporters, especially when compared with the countless options concurrently available for women's bras, are most justly expressed.
In addition to Bauer & Black, it was my personal experience with the Champion (Rochester, NY) pouch which I considered to be the best and most comfortable, at least for me.
Thank you for writing all of your excellent points.
Mike

 

[BillyC]

Dear Bulgehound,
You are spot-on correct with regard to the superlative quality of the J. B. Flaherty "Flarico" jockstraps and cups from our contemporary upbringing. I preferred the venerable Bike #10, wheel logo, because my only "complaint" against the Flarico was that it had inflexible leg-straps. Nevertheless, I think that the common denominator back then was the honeycomb weave of the waistband material, and the porous weave of the pouch in the regular jockstrap.
If I remember correctly, Flarico included a dark-forest-green cup, and I had the "small" size as well as the "adult" size in my collection at one point.
Your comments about the limited options with regard to sizing for men's supporters, especially when compared with the countless options concurrently available for women's bras, are most justly expressed.
In addition to Bauer & Black, it was my personal experience with the Champion (Rochester, NY) pouch which I considered to be the best and most comfortable, at least for me.
Thank you for writing all of your excellent points.
Mike

Champion was the first pouch to cradle my nuts. You never forget your first, they say, and I haven’t.

 

[singlet wrestler]

MY HS gear my best friends Collage shirt and pant I was in it today playing wallball with GF she on collage lacrosse team
I was asked to grab my cup, gear my balls and stick to play with hir

 

[singlet wrestler]

Champion was the first pouch to cradle my nuts. You never forget your first, they say, and I haven’t.

NICE WELL DONE !

 

[singlet wrestler]

I found these on this site

 

[BULGEHOUND]

Some lax bros will wear compressions and then cut the leg straps off their jocks and just let the cup kind of hang over their balls.

OMG!!!!! I guess it's their version of Russian Roulette. How stupid. I wonder how many times a flipped-up cup allowed a direct hit to the cojones? BTW, Having played Hockey Goal I heartily endorse OPINIONMAN's advice that a CUPJOCK is never «secure» unless undergirded with a well-fitting (yea TIGHT) jock. I always wore a «size-smaller» 1" jock with a well-contoured pouch under my main cup (usually in those days an OBC) with a Goalie Cup over that — just for the padding. You can't play well with everything hanging loose and unprotected! As for so-called Compression Shorts they're totally useless and supremely UNcomfortable unless you also like having your balls tortured in one of those S&M sandwich vises — and even then......

 

[BULGEHOUND]

NICE WELL DONE !

Champion wasn't my «first» but when I discovered the Champion #88 «Swm Jock» its perfectly countoured pouch and SOFT almost-erotic materials turned it into my absolute favourite. Sadly they seem to have disappeared from the market.

 

[Opinionman]

I found these on this site
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Could NOT be hotter.

 

[Opinionman]

OMG!!!!! I guess it's their version of Russian Roulette. How stupid. I wonder how many times a flipped-up cup allowed a direct hit to the cojones? BTW, Having played Hockey Goal I heartily endorse OPINIONMAN's advice that a CUPJOCK is never «secure» unless undergirded with a well-fitting (yea TIGHT) jock. I always wore a «size-smaller» 1" jock with a well-contoured pouch under my main cup (usually in those days an OBC) with a Goalie Cup over that — just for the padding. You can't play well with everything hanging loose and unprotected! As for so-called Compression Shorts they're totally useless and supremely UNcomfortable unless you also like having your balls tortured in one of those S&M sandwich vises — and even then......

Thanks, man. I love being cited!

 

[singlet wrestler]