Should teens wear jockstraps for basketball?

Answer 1

This is a personal choice about comfort. The purpose of a jockstrap is to prevent injury to the testicles from running and jumping repeatedly. Nowadays, many briefs and boxer briefs provide support that is equivalent to a jockstrap, making the jockstrap unnecessary in those cases. A teen should wear at least some briefs with good support, if not compression shorts or boxer briefs with good support. (You can go off what other boys his age are doing.) A jock would be OK in addition to or instead of briefs, but only if the athlete finds it necessary or beneficial.

A:

I'd say it's personal choice for Basketball. It depends on how much a guy's stuff bounces around as he is moving out there. And that partly depends on how big a guy is. The bigger your junk is the more it will bounce around and bother you. (Kind of like how women with bigger breasts will need a sports bra more than smaller women, and flat chested women might even be able to go without a bra completely.) But even regular sized guys can be bothered by how much their stuff bounces around.

The first answer is completely wrong about briefs and boxer briefs being as good as a jockstrap! They don't give anywhere near the support that a jock gives, and neither do compression shorts. Compression shorts can hold things "in", but not "up". Also a jockstrap gives you the most freedom of motion of all of those.

I guess for a while there most guys stopped wearing jocks and switched over to compression shorts. Not sure when that happened, but my guess is that it was more for modesty than anything else. But lately jocks have been making a comeback. I know in my HS lots of guys wear jocks, and almost no one wears compression shorts anymore. In fact they are seen as kind of a "girlie" type thing to wear.

A: The second answer is completely right. I am 16 and much prefer the support a jockstrap offers a guy. I also feel 'jocks' are making a comeback. First, compression shorts don't offer enough suppport and in fact they are bad for a guy's sperm production as they do not rid the area of heat, a jockstrap gets rid of this heat, secondly, a jock supports a guy's tackle upwards and not inwards, thirdly, a guy has so much more freedom and doesn't feel so hemmed in as he does with compression shorts. Lastly, briefs etc. do not offer enough support and are just useless unless perhaps you are not well-endowed.

A2

Should wear some kind of protection for you balls. briefs are not enough for a good endowment; boxer briefs are better.