There really is no delicate way to open a story about a piece of horsehair-lined leather designed to cover and celebrate a man’s genitals, is there? So let’s just get on with it: The codpiece, as it ...

"I had ass pads. I had thigh pads, I had calf pads, I had a codpiece, I had a corset," Ruffalo said of playing a flamboyant sex-crazed character. Mark Ruffalo hulked up for “Poor Things,” but in a ...

The men’s shows start with some colorful accessories. By Guy Trebay To an American ear there is something intoxicating about what linguists call “Th” fronting, the pronunciation in British dialect of ...

Edward Crutchley left his show attendees in shock as he had a male model walk the ramp in a leather codpiece and a female model rocking a codpiece bra. Edward Crutchley is one of those few designers ...

Originally a way to cover men’s poles in 15th and 16th century Europe, men wore codpieces beneath their doublets with no other underwear, before the ingenious sartorial invention became a piece of ...

Kya deLongchamps takes a wincing look at the most peculiar protuberance of male attire which thankfully wilted in the age of Shakespeare’s ‘A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream’. Rowan Atkinson and his ...

The gaffe-prone Mayor of London Boris Johnson has fought a losing battle with a sewing machine at a clothing factory before declaring the finished garment a "codpiece". The Mayor was put to the test ...