Re: 70's first jockstrap memories
Washington Hiker
I remember in college there was one guy just a couple of years older than
the rest of us,
very hairy. When he went to the shower he would ALWAYS get a hardon and no
one ever snickered or gave him a bad time. I think everyone was just
fascinated and
probably jealous as hell. It seemed that he spent longer in the shower than
was absolutely necessary. Probably enjoyed the glances (hell, the stares).
I don't think he
was gay - he had a steady girl friend. Who knows. We enjoyed the view.
I worked at the college during summer and every year, when school just let
out I usually cleaned out the locker room and I always came home with 10-12
jocks. Never knew whose they had been, but I had
a lot of fantasies!
Thanks, SportzGuy, for bringing back some wonderful and vivid memories!
----- Original Message -----
From: "SportzGuy" <Spor...@juno.com>
Newsgroups: alt.support.jock-strap
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 11:43 PM
Subject: 70's first jockstrap memories
> I'm new here and I thought I'd share some of my first memories about
> jockstraps.
"SportzGuy" <Spor...@juno.com> wrote in message
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> I'm new here and I thought I'd share some of my first memories about
> jockstraps.
>
> I was first introduced to jockstraps when I was 13 years old in the
> seventh grade. On my first day of P.E. class our coach/P.E. instructor
> told us we'd need to get jockstraps. He then proceeded to give some
> advice on how to buy a jockstrap. He said if the clerk helping us in
> the store was a woman, we should ask for an "athletic supporter." If
> the clerk was a guy, we could then ask for a "jockstrap." As you
> probably have guessed, this was in the mid-1970's when it wasn't polite
> to say "jockstrap" in a lady's presence.
>
> After taking the list of needed school supplies home, my mother
> proceeded to question the need for an athletic supporter. She said,
> "Can't you just tell your coach that you wear support jockey briefs?"
> Although she hadn't seen my "equipment" since I was a toddler, she
> obviously thought it was still quite small and probably didn't need a
> lot of supporting! I about died of embarassment, and then told her ALL
> the other guys wear briefs and that the coach insisted on all the guys
> having an athletic supporter. She then ordered a jockstrap from Sears
> (a Sears brand jock) catalog.
>
> I had heard that jocks were supposed to support the penis in case a guy
> got an errection during workouts. Back then I didn't realize that the
> jock is more for supporting the balls than the penis. Anyway, when the
> jockstrap arrived from Sears, I was convinced it wasn't the right kind
> and I'd die of embarrasment putting this thing on in front of the other
> guys. I hadn't really seen a jockstrap before, but in my imagination I
> had pictured a horizontal strap that held the errect penis (just under
> the glans) up against the body. I had imagined the embarassment of
> having to get a hard-on in the locker room and then putting this strap
> on my penis! (How's that for amusing?) When I saw the Sears jockstrap I
> was convinced it wasn't anything like the Bike brand ones I had heard
> about. I told my mom that it wasn't like the ones everyone else was
> getting. Shen then asked me what a nomal one should be like. I about
> died in embarrasment again, and told her I thought it should be "more
> strap-like!" She made me take it to school anyway, and in the locker
> room I discovered that it was nearly identical to the Bike and other
> brand jocks that all the other guys had. That was a huge relief.
>
> I remember always worrying about showing a hard-on in the locker room.
> I don't remember ever seeing another guy with a hard on in the locker
> room. I remember hiding my multi-daily spontaneous errections with my
> books in the hall and I was scared to death that I'd have a raging
> hard-on right there in the locker room. Ironically I was always able to
> "get it soft" by the time I got to P.E. class to "dress down." I had
> thought of wearing the jockstrap all the time at school to control the
> boners, but I knew everyone in the locker room would make fun of me for
> coming in wearing a jock and not briefs. I don't know how boys nowadays
> can control hard-ons with boxers! It was bad enough with "tighty
> whiteys." If guys back then had worn boxers, it would have been in a
> very embarrasing pop-up situation if I had ever forgot to zip-up. BTW,
> after quite a few years of only wearing the jockstrap for working out,
> I have recently started occasionally get "strapped up" and the rest of
> the time I wear a combination of both boxers and briefs.
>
> After we got "jocked up" we would then go into the gym and stand on our
> assigned numbers painted on the floor. The coach would then do a "jock
> check" where we'd pull out one of the straps and show it to him. If we
> weren't strapped we would have to sit out class in the locker room. I
> also remember that sometimes we'd have to do a lot of sit-ups and the
> coach would have one guy hold the other guy's feet down while they did
> sit ups. I once remember being mesmorized watching another guy's balls
> in the jock (very short gym shorts) every time he sat up and down.
>
> I never played hard contact sports in gym, so I was facinated with hard
> cup jockstraps. I once found a cup (no jock) that was with the lost
> gear in the locker room laundry. I snuck that home and put it in my
> regular jock right next to my skin. I wondered who had worn it before.
>
> Something else I remember is that we'd have a way of rolling up our
> white cotton gym shorts (they were really short) and our jockstraps
> inside of our reversable color (yellow and white) gym tee shirts. We'd
> then take this tight roll home on Fridays for laundering. The jocks
> were always hidden really well inside the roll and the ultimate
> embarassment was when someone would get the gym gear roll away from
> some guy and unroll it so everyone (meaning mainly girls) would see our
> jockstraps!
>
> I was never embarassed about letting other guys see me naked in the
> showers or changing in the locker room, although everyone seemed to
> know that the unspoken rule was to dress and undress quickly so we'd
> have our "stuff" exposed for as short a time as possible. Now if I'd
> ever had an errection in the locker room, I would have been embarassed.
> I do remeber a few times of getting a little hard, but I'd just turn to
> the wall and try to think of something else and it would go away.
>
> When I was in the seventh grade, we had a 9th grader for a teacher's
> assistant. He was obviously much more mature than we "sevies." He could
> really sting with the ball when he played dodgeball with all of us. I
> remember seeing him in the showers and I think everyone was facinated
> with his large penis, balls and pubic hair. I wasn't ever jealous
> because I was starting to get just a tad of hair down there and I knew
> it was about to grow fast.
>
> In college most of my roommates had jockstraps and wore them for
> jogging, etc. I went to college in a beach town, so I wore a wide-band
> Bike jockstrap when went to the beach. I didn't have lined swim trunks,
> just some workout/tennis shorts, so I needed the jock. One time I was
> in the beach changing rooms/showers getting undressed before showering
> to remove the sand and salt from my jockstrap. A couple of guys came in
> saying the women's showers were broken so a couple of women were coming
> in to use the guy's showers. They hardly gave but a few seconds notice,
> so I had my shorts pulled down and I'm certain the two women saw me in
> my jockstrap. It kind of made me hot to think about it later.
>
> This isn't really about jockstraps, but another thing I remember in
> college is the embarassment of having morning hard-ons. For some
> reason, no one had ever told me that ALL guys have
> errections/morning-wood when they wake up. I would hold the covers over
> me and lie there shooting the breeze with my roommates until the
> hard-on would subside. Sometimes that took a while! I wish all of us
> had been told about morning wood and then no one would have been
> embarassed about having our bros see us with raging hard-ons. It is
> kind of crazy that guys think it's taboo to let other guys see us with
> errections. It is perfectly norman and ALL guys have hard-ons.
>
> I'm sure this is too long, but once I started I kept thinking of other
> things.
>
> SportzGuy
>
Washington Hiker
store. I think we just hang on to them as long as possible. Too many happy
memories, I think. There can't be any policies prohibiting the sale of
jocks. As you point out, they sell plenty of tighty whities and boxers.
Speaking of underwear. I don't like tighty whities any more but I buy
plenty of boxers at the thrift stores. In the first place, who wants to pay
$15 for a new pair when you can get a perfectly good pair for as low as
$1.99? Plus you buy a lot of fantasy for that $1.99 set.
If you read this group very much, many guys report some emarrasment about
jocks. That may be why you don't see them in the thrifts. Who is going to
go thru the checkout with a used jock. I say GET OVER IT. Be proud. Pay
for it, put it in your pocket and let a strap hang out of your pocket!
Most of my collection got away from me some time ago but I still have three
and I really feel good wearing them. I had kind of gotten out of the habit
of wearing them until about a year ago I had a hernia operation and I put on
the jock for some support and it felt REALLY good, so I've kept it up.
Cheers!
"SportzGuy" <Spor...@juno.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Washington Hiker!
>
> Thanks for commenting on my jockstrap memories. This is the first time
> I have ever shared any of this information with anyone. It was fun
> putting it down and remembering all those cool jockstrap things that
> happened. It was good to hear that it gave you some wonderful and vivid
> memories. It'[s funny how some things stick in our minds.
>
> Something else I remember is that I loved the way an old used jock got
> all bunched up and tangled when it was pulled off in a hurry. It seem
> like the newer ones don't do that anymore. Everyone always started out
> "dressing down" by untangling their jocks. I was fun to watch,
> especially if the guy undressed and was "dangling" before untangling!
>
> Something funny happened today. I have never, ever bought a used
> jockstrap until today! I went to a thrift store and in the men's
> underware bin were two jocks. One was a Bike swim jock in size medium
> and the other was a Duke small. I was both excited and embarassed to
> buy them. So... I had someone of the female persausion wating for me in
> the car. I couldn't let her know what I had just bought. I suppose it
> would have also grossed her out that I was buying someone else's used
> jockstraps. So, I went beside the store, pulled them out of the sack
> and proceed to put them in my pants pockets! I had a hard time hiding
> my bulging pockets, and somewhere else that was bulging too, if you
> know what I mean. :-) I normally wear a large size jock, but I can
> actually wear both of these, although a bit snug. Ironically the Duke
> small fits better than the Bike swimmer med. Both have already been
> officially christened with precum as well as the jock I was wearing
> when I went to the store.
>
> I think the Duke is fairly new. The Bike swimmer jock might be older.
> It has the Bike logo like the one in this eBay auction:
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110036486717
> If this doesn't work for you, just go to eBay and search for
> 110036486717.
> Inside it has a small cloth "care instructions" tag that looks like
> cotton. That seems to be an older style tag if I'm not mistaken. I
> don't remember any tags like that since maybe the 80's, but I think the
> Bike logo is newer. Do you know?
>
> I haven't seen any used jocks in Goodwill, ARC or Savers in a long
> time. Does anyone know if they now have policies against selling used
> jocks? If they do, it's strange because they sell used tighty whiteys
> and boxers all the time. I don't see how a jock would differ from any
> other used underwear.
>
> I would like a Bike University #11 jock. I keep hearing those were the
> best. I've only had the #10 in the past. Do you like the McDavid's?
>
> So Washington Hiker, how many jockstraps do you have now? I only have
> four including the two today. I have a McDavid regular jock on the way
> and I'd like to get a cup. This is a lot for someone that never owned
> more then two jocks in his life! I wish I had kept my older jocks and
> the college wash room ones that were in reasonably good condition.
> Unforunately I pitched them when I bought new ones.
>
> Sportzguy
>
Jockwoof
"Washington Hiker" <washing...@att.net> wrote:
> If you read this group very much, many guys report some emarrasment about
> jocks. That may be why you don't see them in the thrifts. Who is going to
> go thru the checkout with a used jock. I say GET OVER IT. Be proud. Pay
> for it, put it in your pocket and let a strap hang out of your pocket!
"Would you like a bag for that?"
"No, thank you." :-)
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"SportzGuy" <Spor...@juno.com> wrote in message
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> No, that's OK I'll just wear it home right now!
outlaw
Albany NY to get gas and there was a strip mall near the station. So,
deciding to walk a little bit before getting back in the car I strolled
over and checked out the stores. There was a Champion outlet store and
when I went in, I discovered a large cardboard box on a shelf in the
back row filled with old style champion jocks. The kind made of cotten
and rubber I believe...very soft and well made. These were just
jumbled in the box with no stickers, packaging, or price tags. I
looked and I looked but could not find one in my size. They were
selling them for just a few bucks each according to the outside of the
box.
Sadly, this past labor day weekend, I was driving to Vermont and
stopped in Albany again, but that Champion outlet store was gone.
There used to be an outlet store near Rochester NY too but I haven't
been up that way for a while to see if is still there.
Even today, I find Champion jocks to be very comfortable. The
waistbands have that soft stuff next to the skin that doesn't cut like
some other brands. And it has a very traditional look and feel.
