As Bowers points out, practical jokes that many of us would now consider invasive - slipping a hand down someone’s pants to tweak his penis, say - were within the realm of just-boys-being-boys high jinks. If you served on the field of combat, you saw other men naked a lot more than you might today, even if you go to the gym after work. There’s no privacy in a foxhole showers were rare and often communal, and toilets were open-hole latrines. Moreover, we forget - and are reminded by an essay in the book by a World War II Marine named Scotty Bowers - about the physical closeness that these fighting men lived with. As for the candid nudity, there are too many of these pictures out there in the world for them to have been made on the sneak, and a World War II soldier who carried a camera (and quite a few did there’s a lot of downtime in a war zone, in between the scenes of mayhem) wouldn’t have been able to hide it easily. Some (like the pyramid pose below) were certainly set up for the picture. Well, chances are they weren’t creep shots.
However, it saddens me that this may be a prevailing idea and that my choice of wearing a jockstrap could be looked at as me clinging on to an era gone by.Bathing at a spring on Guadalcanal, 1943. I still think that your gym gear is up to your comfort level and what you like. Is compression gear and better fitting underwear really pushing the jock out? I changed into my SafeTgard jock in the locker room yesterday while some other guy was wearing boxer shorts. Ok, so maybe I am the only one that feels this way but I do not consider myself and “old” school kind of guy. I do not need them specifically for lifting but they are the piece of clothing that I can don specifically to get me in that gym frame of mind. I use them for running, elliptical, biking, and yes, lifting. I wear jocks in my everyday attire as well, I do so because they are comfortable but I specifically buy gym gear (jockstraps) for the purpose of going to the gym. There are jockstraps that are made specifically for sports and workout. A jock meant that you are passing that line between boy and man something, a compression short does not give you. We have so little these days that are exclusive to us anymore. They are a right of passage, that piece of equipment you get when you enter that exclusive club called manhood. I really like they way they feel, the way they move with you and the freedom of movement, you can experience because of no material back there. A jockstrap, obviously, has great ventilation and instead of squashing your man-bits they secure them nicely. I hate they way they feel, the way they squash everything, and they do not keep me cool. OMG! I tired them and I hate them! You say that it assists in recovery and maybe there is science to that but I just can’t stand them. Reasons that I am currently wearing a jockstrap to the gym. If you wear jocks let us know or if you’ve never worn one! Just curious who out there wears them for working out and when. The support you get will be totally amazing. I would recommend them for running, crossfit and other high impact sports. Just lifting and cardio is not a reason for guys to wear them. Guys who have higher impact workouts are more likely to wear jocks or something similar. There are still some old school guys who believe in wearing them.
Guys are wanting underwear that is super comfy and reliable for every day and working out. This is a trend we will see more of as the years go by. This is further done by stores like Target carrying the Champion brand that is not the boring ill-fitting boxer briefs. UNB is the perfect example of that, we have 1/3 reading about underwear. Underwear that has better pouches and fabric. When you look around the locker room, guys are starting to wear much better underwear. A spandex jock made for a protective cup. One thing that is awesome in the UA line up is their jock. New designs should improve on the pervious designs. This is one time where technological advancement has replaced an old school design. I for one, when I do workout, prefer wearing compression gear on my legs.
Brands like UA came onto the market and have done lots of research into keeping guys cool and giving them even extra support. One reason the jock is no longer the underwear for working out is the rise of the compression gear. In sports (football, Baseball, and etc) you can see them. There are a few reasons for this decline in the jock in the locker room. Nowadays, jocks are rare to see in the locker room. It was not uncommon to see a guy in the locker room stripping down to his jock. When I was coming up, back in the stone ages, jocks were still acceptable to wear to work out.