Inside the Olympics Condom Tradition: From Seoul to Paris

The Paris Olympics are set to hand out 20,000 condoms to athletes this year.

Inside the Olympics Condom Tradition: From Seoul to Paris

The Paris Olympics are set to hand out 20,000 condoms to athletes this year.

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.

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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

In 2000, the Emerald City provided “300,000 condoms to residents of the Olympic Village,” shared the Washington Post. Proud its contributions, Laurent Michaud, director of the Olympic and Paralympic Village, told Sky News, every resident “will have what they are expecting and what they need.” They eventually had to order 20,000 more “after they realized the initial 70,000 they had ordered wouldn’t be enough.”

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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