I grew up in an era when most of us wore jockstraps just about anytime you turned around. When I played basketball, tennis, swam, I wore a jock. When I umpired baseball, played softball, and even sometimes when I played racquetball, I wore a jock and a cup. I also wore tighty-whities for underwear. These days when I go commando because underwear is chafing me I find it uncomfortable, almost painful sometimes. I wonder if my balls just became accustomed to what I grew up with. I am often in a gym where a lot of young guys play basketball. You can see their boxer shorts hanging out over their basketball shorts. And this is heavy duty basketball. All I can think of is pain. Could it be that their balls just adapt to what they have exposed them to? It must be true. Boxer shorts and basketball--ugh!