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Design 'anti-sex' beds for athletes of the olympic games (chron.com)
4 points by hker on July 18, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


> "The organizers reiterated that although they will receive condoms, the logistics of the distribution is quite compatible with the protocols of social distancing and that the intention is that the athletes do not use condoms in the Olympic Village but rather help raise awareness by taking them back to their countries of origin."

I mean, sorry but, "yeah, right ..."

You take a bunch of young, peak performant, upper percentile young people and throw them together into a village ... ... and then put them on -cardboard- beds, expecting them -not- to have sex?

This cannot end well :)

(Particularly, for the beds ...)


This is something new to me.

Do athletes have sex with other athletes?

Edit: I just did a search on it [1]... this is..... wow.... just wow.

[1] https://www.espn.com/olympics/summer/2012/story/_/id/8133052...


Nice find, the article, and ...

... yes, right? Your reaction was mine, when I first heard about this. The article puts it in a very tellin' perspective:

"[...] we long assumed -- a chaste devotion to the most intense competition of their lives. But the image of a celibate Games began to flicker in '92 when it was reported that the Games' organizers had ordered in prophylactics like pizza. Then, at the 2000 Sydney Games, 70,000 condoms wasn't enough, prompting a second order of 20,000 and a new standing order of 100,000 condoms per Olympics."


Alright ... the downvote ...

A carpenter, 'haps, hoping the whole "cardboard beds" thing does not catch on? :)


I have an excellent design for a set of cardboard braces, the set of 5 fits under the no-sex bed and increases the weight limit to 250 Kilograms - get it on Amazon....




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