FOR a man who teeters around on stilts every night before stripping down to a studded codpiece, Hank Azaria sounds pretty cheerful. Ecstatic, even. “This is the most fun I’ve ever had – not just ...

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 ...

At one side of the room, a guy dressed as Gene Simmons adjusted his studded codpiece. At another, a would-be Paul Stanley was plopped on a leather sofa, munching on a handful of tortilla chips.

"A man called Ian Codpiece sends me letters every week, giving me marks out of 10 for my TV outfits. He wears a leather studded codpiece. I know this because he sends me pictures of it. Marks out of ...