The jockstrap was invented in 1874 by C. F. Bennett of a Chicago sporting goods company, Sharp & Smith, to provide comfort and support for bicycle jockeys working the cobblestone streets of Boston to keep in place the male genitalia.
From the period c .1650–c. 1850, ‘jock’ was used as slang for the male “member”.
The word jockstrap has purportedly been in use at least since 1891, a likely contraction of “jockey strap”, as the garment was first designed for bicycle-riding messengers and deliverymen, or ‘bike jockeys’. The Bike Jockey Strap was the first jockstrap manufactured in America in 1874.
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Out of idle curiosity @Bretrick, what were you looking up when you just happened to come across that info?
Didn’t your mother tell you, it’ll make you go blind 
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I used to wear bicycle clips but never a jockstrap because I’m a lady.
That’ll explain jock itch then too won’t it as I’ve often wondered how that got it’s name.
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Honestly I do not remember what steered me in the direction of Jockstraps.
I remember reading about cobblestones but after that I am blinded… 
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Two nuns riding their bikes on cobblestones.One said to the other “I think we’ll come this way again”
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Oh … gasps with shock horror!
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A bit like the first Vicar of Dibley joke about the blind man, 
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I thought it was something that held up a Scottish man’s trousers…
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So … what’s a sporran for?
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A Sporran is a pocket worn on the front of the kilt to put personal items in, not personal “members” in.
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Quite. To my knowledge, kilts don’t have pockets in them, hence the need to add, er, “clutch” bags. Naturally, one would imagine that a pick-pocket thief might find it somewhat less attractive to steal something which is adjacent to somewhat more manly protected/sensitive regions. Tackling one’s tackle is likely to lead to a more aggressive form of tackling 
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