Question: what does it mean when a man wears a clothespin?
Answer: In case you missed the passing reference in Episode 4, Sadie (Sarah Gadon) tells Jake (James Franco) that Johnny keeps a clothespin clipped to his penis to this day. (In the 1940s and '50s, it was apparently fairly commonplace for mothers to put clothespins on their sons' penises in order to discourage masturbation.