Over 110,000 condoms will be available to participants. Don’t the games only last about 10 days?
Who is having all this sex? Inner team sex? Sex between Finnish bobsledders and New Zealand ice skaters? Can local Korean prostitutes get into the village?
Probably all of the above.
I would have thought that the athletes would be concentrating on training for their once in a lifetime chance to compete with the best in the world.
Maybe there is time for both.
And once their event is over?
Sex is not debilitating to performance.
“The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It’s that they stay out all night looking for it.” - Casey Stengel
I heard an Olympic athlete interviewed on Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me. They were asking about how fast the condoms were being used in a past Olympics. He said (and I’m paraphrasing), “We weren’t using them. If you were in the Olympics and you saw a bowl of condoms with the Olympic rings on them, wouldn’t you grab a handful for souvenirs?”
Don’t forget about all the coaches, spouses or other SOs who are traveling with them, etc.
I’ve heard stories about prophylactics being available at Games as far back as the 1930s; of course, I have no idea if they are true, at least not going back that far.
Moved to the Game Room.
Colibri
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Not officially; they started giving them out for free in the 80s.
However, I’ve read accounts that there is a lot of sex going on. You have young men and women, physically strong and attractive, and you can bet there will be hookups.
I’ve read similar accounts. The Olympic Village is a hookup hotbed.
Here I was thinking it was an event.
“He” was Hannah Kearney, Olympic gold medalist in women’s mogul skiing.
Maybe half of them disappear as mementos. But believe me, the rest get used. I’ve gone to school with several Olympic competitors, and the stories they tell…
Let’s just say that putting all those world-class athletes together in a village is just asking for détente.
It does sound like a situation worthy of “letters to cosmo”/“letters to Penthouse”. I mean, for either gender (and preference), at the Olympic village is going to be the most attractive possible partners in your entire species. Realistically probably the best mates you’re gonna encounter in your lifetime. It would be letting down your own species to not partake.
The Seoul Olympics were in 1988!
Aren’t they sent home after their event is over?
Its not the sex, its the staying up late either looking for it or doing it.
Well, at least, if athletic ability is something you prize highly.
Which it will be, if you’re an Olympic-level athlete.
An article on the history of Olympic condoms from 2016.
What happened in Atlanta?
The Larry Nasser debacle makes me ask, since several athletes are underage, especially in gymnastics, how are they protected?
Some might go home after competing, but remember, the athletes are also there for the closing ceremonies.
Probably a lot of Olympic groupies of all stripes as well.
One of my college classmates came to our school on a track scholarship, and he and my BFF were good friends. He told my BFF that a lot of the guys on the team were regular old poon hounds when they went OOT for meets; when my BFF told me about it, I said that not only was I not surprised (young, fit men away from home, KWIM?), the guys who did that kind of thing would have been doing that right here in town anyway (and named several meat-market bars) and the other thing was that our classmate did not come across to me as the kind of man who would do that kind of thing - that my impression of him is that he would be the type who would have a girlfriend and that’s it. I also told him that I really didn’t need to know if I was correct or not because it was NOMB.
Family, chaperones, teammates, coaches, etc. I would hope young athletes are very well-supervised when in a foreign country surrounded by massive amounts of people and shenanigans, though there’s always the possibility of something happening. I’d like to think nothing untoward would occur, and that there would be a huge uproar should it happen, but to be honest, the Nasser shitshow has dealt a blow to my faith in humanity’s willingness to help our most vulnerable.
I would imagine that security at the Olympic villages is airtight; it hasn’t always been, and that’s how the 1972 terrorist attack happened. Basically, anyone could enter the grounds AND buildings, and did.