physical education

This is not really a jockstrap story, but since many of you have posted that your introduction to jocks was in school Phys Ed class I'll share this essay on how teaching PE to classes, especially large classes was often an impossible task. Note that this school had PE scheduled for every class...

For some guys, wearing a jock was mandatory in PE. How did you PE teacher check if you were wearing a jock? We had to drop our shorts to show we were wearing a jock. For the unfortunate who we’re just wearing underwear, they had to finish off the class that day in just underwear.

I really enjoyed reading all of the posts about the history of jockstraps and seeing the magazine advertisements that they had back in the 1950s and 1960s when jockstraps were mandatory attire for P.E. classes in schools. I was on my swim team in high school (Class of 2001), and I recently...