Inside the Olympics Condom Tradition: From Seoul to Paris
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This week, the Paris Olympics lifted its sex and "Intimacy Ban” and announced a hunt for a very horny amount of condoms.
According to the organization, it will be handing out approximately 20,000 condoms at this year's Paris Olympics, beginning July 2026. If you’re shocked, this isn’t the first time the Olympics secured condoms for athletes. It’s actually a tradition dating back to 1988.
Just last year, leading adult film director Erika Lust launched a campaign, hoping to become the unofficial porn sponsor for the Women's FIFA World Cup. At the time Lust wrote, "Porn and masturbation are well known for being a great way to release physical and emotional stress." So why not gift them the greatest gift of all: orgasms? "We hope that the respective football associations see the physical and psychological benefits that masturbation and porn can have on the players’ performance," she continued.
Just as the Washington Post highlighted, there's no way to know just how much sex athletes are having that would warrant such an international response but given pop culture's love of shows like "Basketball Wives" and the subsequent stories shared.. it’s safe to say athletes aren’t just active in their respective sports…
Keep reading for our favorite sex-positive moments at the Olympics.
1988 Seoul Olympics
As SLATE reported, at the 1988 Seoul Olympics "about 8,500 condoms were handed out to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS," which was then rising rapidly.
2000 Sydney Olympics
2016 Rio Olympics
By far the winner of safe sex at the Olympics, was Brazil bringing in 450,000 male and female condoms.
Honorable Mention: 2021 Tokyo Olympics
Although condoms were not handed out at the beloved event, "Organizers planned to give out 150,000 condoms," wrote Washington Post, "but told Reuters they were "not for use at the athlete's village, but to have athletes take them back to their home countries to raise awareness."
For more sex in the news, Gen Z is going "boysober" for Mercury Retrograde.
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