# 150,000 condoms to be handed out at the Olympics **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 20, 2012, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/150-000-condoms-to-be-handed-out-at-the-olympics/628850 "2012-07-20T13:52:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/150-000-condoms-to-be-handed-out-at-the-olympics/628850/1 "2012-07-20T13:52:40Z")
Durex is handing out [150,000](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2175783/The-raunchiest-Olympics-Record-150-000-condoms-handed-athletes-London-Games--thats-15-EACH.html) condoms to Olympic athletes this year. That works out to about 15 condoms each. And you can get more if need be. I think I took the wrong career path. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/150-000-condoms-to-be-handed-out-at-the-olympics/628850/2 "2012-07-20T14:29:07Z")
Nah. Whichever career path you chose beats giving out frangas hands down. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/150-000-condoms-to-be-handed-out-at-the-olympics/628850/3 "2012-07-20T14:52:51Z")
> [@Edward\_The\_Head](#): > > Durex is handing out [150,000](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2175783/The-raunchiest-Olympics-Record-150-000-condoms-handed-athletes-London-Games--thats-15-EACH.html) condoms to Olympic athletes this year. That works out to about 15 condoms each. And you can get more if need be. Sounds like someone is aiming to set a new world record. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/150-000-condoms-to-be-handed-out-at-the-olympics/628850/4 "2012-07-20T14:53:50Z")
Take a bunch of young (teenaged in some cases) and extremely physically fit people, put them in sequestered accommodations far away from friends and family and anyone else they know who might see them do anything naughty, add an emotionally-charged atmosphere and hey presto - a gold medal in shagging. Consider the following examples of Team GB: [Exhibit A](http://marieclaire.media.ipcdigital.co.uk/11116%7C000058d37%7C4a2b_orh750w480_Jessica-Ennis-2.jpg) (for those who fancy the ladies) [Exhibit B](http://fabulousmag.co.uk/tag/tom-daley/) (for those who fancy the lads) I don’t know if those two in particular will be getting up to anything but there are a lot more hot athletes on their way to London right now. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/150-000-condoms-to-be-handed-out-at-the-olympics/628850/5 "2012-07-20T15:13:40Z")
150,000 condoms…that ‘s a lot of screwin’. Is this really the example we want to set?? ---
**Author:** ![mcgato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@mcgato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcgato)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/150-000-condoms-to-be-handed-out-at-the-olympics/628850/6 "2012-07-20T15:19:05Z")
[Well here are some details as to why they need so many condoms.](http://espn.go.com/espnw/olympics/8133052/athletes-spill-details-dirty-secrets-olympic-village-espn-magazine) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/150-000-condoms-to-be-handed-out-at-the-olympics/628850/7 "2012-07-20T15:21:17Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > Is this really the example we want to set?? In what way are “we” setting the example? They’re not encouraging the athletes to have sex, they’re providing condoms because they’re going to screw anyway. You take a few thousand young and very fit people in tight clothes, put them in close proximity to each other, leave them pretty much on their own when they are not competing, and what do you think is going to happen? [ESPN recently reported on this and it’s not new.](http://espn.go.com/olympics/summer/2012/story/_/id/8133052/athletes-spill-details-dirty-secrets-olympic-village-espn-magazine) > [@](#): > > 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. It’s a lurid and gossippy story becomes very surprising when you take a minute to think about it. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/150-000-condoms-to-be-handed-out-at-the-olympics/628850/8 "2012-07-20T15:24:21Z")
> [@](#): > > 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 I tried that once, it turns out that pizza isn’t as good a prophylactic as they told me. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/150-000-condoms-to-be-handed-out-at-the-olympics/628850/9 "2012-07-20T15:30:17Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > 150,000 condoms..that ‘s a lot of screwin’. > Is this really the example we want to set?? Yes. I would encourage athletes (and everyone else) to have safe sex. And lots of it, if they wish. When they look back in 20 years are they going to say, “I wish I worked out more” or “I wish I had more sex?” ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/150-000-condoms-to-be-handed-out-at-the-olympics/628850/10 "2012-07-20T15:42:40Z")
Hey, they are adults, and not lacking for money. Why can’t they buy their own condoms? ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/150-000-condoms-to-be-handed-out-at-the-olympics/628850/11 "2012-07-20T15:55:02Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > 150,000 condoms..that ‘s a lot of screwin’. > Is this really the example we want to set?? 😕 I don’t know if you’re serious or not, but assuming you are, what is the bad example being set? Having responsible sex? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/150-000-condoms-to-be-handed-out-at-the-olympics/628850/12 "2012-07-20T16:44:59Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > They’re not encouraging the athletes to have sex, they’re providing condoms because they’re going to screw anyway. I have a problem with statements like this. If you provide me with condoms, you’re sending me the message that I am expected to use them. > [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > 😕 > > I don’t know if you’re serious or not, but assuming you are, what is the bad example being set? Having responsible sex? Some people understandably have issues with the kind of sexuality described in the article—the casual, anonymous hookups and such. > [@](#): > > But he hadn’t seen anything like the dorm room in Sydney he shared with a javelin thrower, which had instantly become a revolving door of women without backstories. “It’s like Vegas,” Godina explains. “You learn not to ask a lot of questions.” ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/150-000-condoms-to-be-handed-out-at-the-olympics/628850/13 "2012-07-20T16:50:22Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I have a problem with statements like this. If you provide me with condoms, you’re sending me the message that I am expected to use them.Some people understandably have issues with the kind of sexuality described in the article—the casual, anonymous hookups and such. I have issues with that as well. But so what? It’s happening anyway. Taking measures to minimize the fallout is more responsible than pretending it doesn’t happen. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/150-000-condoms-to-be-handed-out-at-the-olympics/628850/14 "2012-07-20T16:50:56Z")
> [@Edward\_The\_Head](#): > > Durex is handing out [150,000](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2175783/The-raunchiest-Olympics-Record-150-000-condoms-handed-athletes-London-Games--thats-15-EACH.html) condoms to Olympic athletes this year. That works out to about 15 condoms each. Supposedly those are _unused_ condoms. ---
**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/150-000-condoms-to-be-handed-out-at-the-olympics/628850/15 "2012-07-20T16:52:34Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > When they look back in 20 years are they going to say, “I wish I worked out more” or “I wish I had more sex?” In my case it’s 30 years.☹ ---
**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/150-000-condoms-to-be-handed-out-at-the-olympics/628850/16 "2012-07-20T16:58:58Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > Hey, they are adults, and not lacking for money. Why can’t they buy their own condoms? Why do you care? A private company is giving away their own product, no tax dollars are being used & it’s another country so it wouldn’t be your tax dollars anyhow. Also they are young people who don’t usually have a lot of money and going to the Olympics is expensive. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/150-000-condoms-to-be-handed-out-at-the-olympics/628850/17 "2012-07-20T17:04:30Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > Hey, they are adults, and not lacking for money. Why can’t they buy their own condoms? Why do you say they’re not lacking for money? Most of them are not milionaire professional athletes. Condoms are cheap, but with the athletes’ schedule and that many people coming to the Olympics from around the world it might not be that easy for the athletes to get their own. > [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I have a problem with statements like this. If you provide me with condoms, you’re sending me the message that I am expected to use them. No, I’m not. It’s a fact that there’s going to be a lot of sexual activity. They’re providing condoms, not telling anybody to use them, keeping track of who uses them or why they are or are not using them. There’s no expectation in the sense of endorsing sexual activity- although even if there was I’d have to ask “So what?” ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/150-000-condoms-to-be-handed-out-at-the-olympics/628850/18 "2012-07-20T17:41:11Z")
I’m pretty sure I read exactly the same story at the time of the 2008 Olympics, and exactly the same type of comments followed. This is not new, folks. ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/150-000-condoms-to-be-handed-out-at-the-olympics/628850/19 "2012-07-20T18:03:54Z")
Don’t they realize that this is going to encourage wanton sexual immorality? ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/150-000-condoms-to-be-handed-out-at-the-olympics/628850/20 "2012-07-20T18:11:42Z")
I certainly hope there will be recycling bins available! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/150-000-condoms-to-be-handed-out-at-the-olympics/628850.md?page=2)