Is anybody surprised?
It shouldn’t really come as a surprise that when you throw together young people from around the world, hyped to wholly unique pre-competition levels, possibly away from the supervision of their families for the first time, each an all-around fantastic physical specimen, that these athletes might be slightly attracted to one another and looking for a release from the enormous stresses they're under.
From reports leveled every four years — although soundly ignored in the light of nationalistic fervor — the Olympics has always been, and will turn out to be again, a sexfest, a phrase first used for the Beijing 2008 Olympics, where there was said to be more sex happening than ever occurred at Woodstock.
For the 2024 Paris Olympics, organizers had a whopping 300,000 condoms at the ready. Back in 2010, at Vancouvers games, 10,000 additional condoms had to be found after the initial supply of 100,000 was used. It was remarked that at one stage the organizers were ordering “prophylactics like pizza."
Again, at the Vancouver Olympics (does the cold make people especially horny?) athletes from Canada, Germany, and Austria engaged in an orgy. At least they had the decency to have it at a house outside of the Olympic Village.
That village is an exclusive center of athlete living, packed with living spaces, eateries, and areas for social congregation. And that socializing begins about a week before the games’ official opening as teams move in. Akin to a first day of college, albeit for a more truncated amount of time, the leotards fall as they may as athletes share a lifestyle, hopes and dreams only this unique group can understand.
It’s been noted that canoodling happens in cramped bedrooms as well as outside on lawns, in alleyways, and pretty much any place one can think of in this homogenized unusual make-shift world.
As should be expected, people looking to hookup these days employ a variety of dating apps. But there seems to be so much searching and swiping during Olympic meets, from the athletes, that Grindr crashed at the London 2012 Olympics, mere minutes after the athletes arrived. Two years later, at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia experienced such an unprecedented rise in Tinder use from the Olympic Village, that it was determined that the athletes only were running the app for two weeks.
Over here at Kinkly, we can't wait to hear about all the wild Olympic Village sex happening at the 2024 summer games in Paris. Our hats go off to the amazing athletes for their performances on and off the field, so to speak.
