There is a plastic protector thing in the front that protects your things
you can get jock shorts from eBay
a lot of modern football players wear compression shorts instead of a jock. Compression shorts do not hold the penis and testicles as firmly as a jock does.
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Not usually. Usually when you have a jock on, you don't wear anything else with it, just your athletic gear on top of it. However, if you are wearing compression shorts, sliding shorts, hockey shorts, etc., you should wear those over the jock. Some people (inexplicably) wear a jock under a swimsuit, too. If you're wearing the jock for running or track, you just wear your normal shorts over the jock, no underwear. You can wear a lot of modern underwear (briefs, gripper jams, etc.) INSTEAD of a jock, particularly if the underwear fits closely and is supportive.
A jock is probably not necessary unless your weightlifting uniform is revealing and you feel like a jock gives you more coverage or holds or penis in place better. (This can be achieved with compression shorts or workout shorts, too.)
Perhaps the biggest sensation to hit the men's underwear scene was the 1934 arrival of jock-type underwear shorts.
I normally wore a Bike jock without the cup, but sometimes my baseball compression shorts.
Yes, in many cases you can wear compression shorts instead of a jock. But it depends on what it is your doing. Compression shorts do not give much support at all compared to a jock. They don't hold your "equipment" UP.
A jockstrap is a kind of undergarment for men intended for athletic use. The garment consists of a waistband and a pouch in front in which the penis and scrotum/testicles are worn, connected under the legs to the waistband in back. Jockstraps typically do not have a seat. The pouch is typically from a highly stretchy, resilient, supportive material since the point to a jockstrap is to give extra support to the genitals during physical activity and thereby reduce or prevent injury.
Different men wear it differently. Oftentimes the jock/cup replace the underwear entirely. Otherwise the jock would typically go outside underwear, sliding shorts, etc.
You can wear shorts to work if you work at a startup, nonprofit, or in any creative work where the dynamic is described as "cool."
I wear my jock and cup over my compression shorts. My compression shorts have a contour pouch that keeps my junk contained, so it stays under the cup. The above answer is totally incorrect! You should wear your compression shorts over your cup-jockstrap so that the compression shorts hold your cup tight against your body! If you wear your cup over your compression shorts, your cup might not fit tight to your body and a blow there could just slam the cup against your testicles, causing pain and possible injury. Some cup-jockstraps do not hold the cup firmly in place against the body.