while i was at oxford college on my rhodes scholarship in the early 90s i befriended a proper british bisexual lad named erik larson — 'elsie' — who introduced me to the appreciation of the sole jockstrap cup — without the strap. erik collected cups — sans straps — and i came to do the same. i now have about 35 different cups — sans straps — in my jockstrap of champions collection. erik later married into a third generation lineage of the royal family — second cousin thrice removed, once by divorce, the other two by suicide — and i lost track of him after the first gulf war. passed away? 1993.