My dad bought me my first jock, A Bike youth supporter when I began 7th grade, it was required for PE at our school. At first, I was too embarrassed to wear it. Then, one day a friend was over at my house and we were talking about PE class, and he asked me if I had a jockstrap, and I said I did, but it didn't seem like the other guys were wearing theirs. He said, "If you wear yours tomorrow, I'll wear mine, too." So the next day, when we changed to our PE uniforms (shorts and t-shirts) we both got into our jocks, and we were a little boned up, but no one said anything. It was after that that more of the guys began to wear theirs, too.