What exactly is willy warmer? It's a type of men's underwear that covers only testicles and penis. Think about it like a cocksock. It's designed to fit over willy.
Let's dig into the history.
The origins.
It all started in Mrkpalj, a cold region with mountains in Croatia. Their village is located 831 meters above sea level, so you can imagine that they needed something special to protect their man's pride. All men know that when it comes to cold weather, our "friends" are not so impressive as always and when it's cold and snowy all the time and you are living in the mountains almost 1km above sea level, you need to think about the solution to heat your penis. And from this necessity, a willy warmer also known as cock sock or peter heater was born. First products were called "protectors" as a guard against frostbite and they became a tradition in this region. Such garments were also worn by Vikings in Norway. They called it CockWear... Too fast.. They called it forhyse, vænakot, or suspensorium which means: provoke, just a vænakot and suspensorium. Let's agree, those names sound more Viking than willy warmer. Some examples of early Viking's CockWear™ are preserved in the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History. In Norway, they made their "protectors" from squirrel fur with the fur side inside to be worn also like in the Mrkpalj, as a savior from freezing cold. This type of men's underwear is also popular on the Faroe Islands, located halfway between Norway and Iceland. They call it kallvøttur or purrivøttur which means man's middle and middle testicles. Traditionally in Norway and Denmark, particularly on the Faroe Islands, where a girl would give her lover a forhyse to see how seriously he took their relationship. If the gift was rejected, this was seen as evidence that he was not yet ready for marriage. So getting a willy warmer and accepting this gift was like a proposal...
Since the 1900s, sadly, willy warmers are mainly made as novelties and funny presents instead of serving a real and functional purpose. But it changes now with CockWear™ who brings them to the bright light. What we sell is a fully functional, comfortable, and healthy garment for men. Once you were a CockWear™, you won't come back to normal, ordinary underwear. Always pick our original products when speaking about willy warmers, knitted, crotchet stuff is very uncomfortable, unpractical, and just ugly, so take care of your Johnson, choose CockWear™ and join the men's underwear revolution.
In modern culture
Dawn Steel was an American film studio executive and producer. She was one of the first women to run a major Hollywood film studio. During her work as a merchandiser for a men's magazine called Penthouse in the 70s, she found hand-made crocheted willy warmers a.k.a cock socks during her trip to Germany. Quickly, she secured the rights to market those "forhyse" and started to sell them through Penthouse magazine as funny accessories called "Extra Large" with different colors. In the 80s, the seaside resort in Blackpool had willy warmers displayed among other souvenir shops next to the big amusement park called Pleasure Beach. People estimated those products as sexually suggestive materials and inappropriate for most clients. There was a rumor that in 1991 Charles, the Prince of Wales received a gift, green crotched peter heater.
In male nude snapshotting, Playgirl a magazine like Playboy but for women published photos of cock socks that have become a comic replacement for the fig leaf, deliberately focusing attention upon the area hidden. During the Gulf War, In 1990–91 the British tabloid newspaper The Sun shared a pattern for a willy warmer, which encouraged women readers to knit and send to soldiers in the Gulf. Early 21st-century willy warmers are often made to represent religious or political themes or in the form of animals.