part 2. Having fun in a vintage strap.
part 2. Having fun in a vintage strap.
I was no athlete in high school, and certainly I did not compete is a sport that required me to wear a strap and cup. Still, I admired the guys who were both willing and able to do do. I wondered a lot about what it felt like to be in such a "predicament". Was being cupped and strapped actually "fun" in a weird sort of way. So in college, as a young adult living away from home, I could pursue this line of research and not have to explain to anyone why I had gone out and bought straps. I began with a basic strap without a cup then worked up to the ones that had a cup. The first strap I got, branded Fruit of the Loom, fit really snug, and I enjoyed the fit and feel immensely. So that encouraged me to try other designs,
The cupped strap I want to talk about this morning is a vintage one from a company named Futuro. I bought this strap in the late 1990s from a drug store in a small rural town where I graduated from high school in the 1960s just like a male high school athlete would have purchased for wearing in contact sport play, and it is a vintage design, 3-inch waistband made of heavy elastic with two narrower leg straps that control the tension applied to pulling the cup and pouch snug to the penis and groin. The strap was in fine shape. The elastic waistband was strong and had not deteriorated over time. However, the elastic in the leg straps had deteriorated and stretched out so there was less horizontal tension on the pouch and cup. The solution was to cut the leg straps and shorten them enough so the pouch and cup again fit snugly to my groin. That works great. There is a constant yet gentle tension on my penis when I wear the cupped strap. My penis is way smart and quickly realizes when it is in a happy place within the hard walls of that snug-fitting cup. It responds the only may it can, by dripping precum and telling my brain that it has found a fun place surrounded by the not-very-roomy hard cup all around. My brain is telling me this is a really enjoyable place to be and if possible I want to spend an entire afternoon feeling horny but with an arousal under control. As sheer fun, this goes right up there with being able to put on and wear a tight-fitting swim brief or thong.
Sadly, over the last two decades the vintage strap designs have all but disappeared from the marketplace. Futuro has become part of 3M and no longer makes straps at all but instead elasticised items like compression socks. Other traditional strap makers have dropped out as well, like Duke, the company that used to supply Wal Mart. The replacements have either been compression shorts that have a pouch that can hold a cup, or a strap that has what is called a banana cup which is way bigger than the classic cups. In a banana cup a guys penis just flops around in an oversized space with the cup providing no tension whatsoever.
An ebay vendor has a vintage Futuro (size small) for sale but the asking price is $60. This is supposed to be NOS but I gather the leg strap elastic has also deteriorated because of age and the leg straps would need the shortening treatment too.
Having said that, getting to wear a snug-fitting vintage style strap is one of those things no guy should miss out on, analogous to the first time a guy puts on a snug-fitting swim brief.
These are simple ways of enjoying yourself and your body. With the right gear all of this is way fun to do.
Sebbie
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