So why not? Why were jockstraps necessary in our youth, but not so much in 2015? But a jockstrap during college football or jiu jitsu? Never.” Jay Ferrari, a regular MH contributor who has a black belt in Brazilian jiu jitsu, says the last time he wore a jockstrap “was for pee wee football. I learned that not a single one of them wears jockstraps anymore. Of course, you could say that about most days-especially if your job, like mine, involves long periods of typing on a computer, or having conversations with calm, entirely nonviolent people who are unlikely to judo chop you in the nuts without warning.īut there I was, all but daring my fellow editors-with nothing more than a smug smile-to thrust their elbows into my gonads, or grind the business end of their shoes into my giggleberries.Īfterward, I got to talking with some my male coworkers about balls-hey, these topics just come up-and what, if anything, we’re doing to protect them. There’s something weirdly exhilarating about going to work wearing the kind of testicular protection usually reserved for MMA athletes.īecause when your balls are that ensconced, you know, without a shadow of a doubt, that the day won’t end with you being rushed to the emergency room with internal scrotal bleeding. Then I decided to strap it on for the Men’s Health Monday morning editorial meeting. I even briefly used it as a makeshift container for pens and Post-It notes.
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If your first thought was, “Hey, isn’t that the same cup Dairy Queen uses for their Banana Splits?”, then we are totally on the same page.Īt first, I left it on my desk, like a sort of perverse tip jar. That is, until a public relations rep for Diamond MMA compression jock and cup system-available for just $90-sent me a complimentary set a few weeks ago. Related: The Better Man Project, 2,476 tips to keep you happy and healthy for lifeīut I haven’t put on a jockstrap since sentences like “I’m worried about tomorrow’s algebra test” and “I sincerely think that dry-humping my girlfriend during a slow dance at prom sounds like a meaningful relationship milestone” were things I thought about regularly. There’d be ruptures, fractures, contusions, torsions there was no end to the horrible things that could happen to our nuts during a friendly game of pickleball. Worse case, we’d suffer testicular trauma. We’d twist the wrong way, and that’s it, our reproductive organs would be mangled beyond repair.Īnd that was if we were lucky.
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I vividly remember grim warnings from my high school gym teachers, who lectured us on exactly what would happen if we didn’t wear them.īest case scenario, we’d never be able to have children. Or more specifically, remember when guys used to wear jockstraps?