Let’s talk about the Paris 2024 Olympic Games’ most curious aspect: the anti-sex beds that emerged in the last edition of the Olympics (Tokyo 22) and that aimed to reduce COVID-19 infections by preventing athletes from having sex in their bedrooms.
By the way, for this edition of the Olympic Games, the IOC International Olympic Committee will distribute around 300,000 condoms (the second games with the most condoms in history, only after Rio de Janeiro where there were almost 500,000) among the 10,500 athletes who will inhabit the Olympic Village, which is equivalent to around 28 condoms per person.
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The Anti-sex Beds: How Do They Work?
Anti-sex beds, actually called Airwave beds, became a trend during the Tokyo Olympics in 2022 (right at one of the most critical moments of the COVID-19 pandemic), in an attempt to reduce infections during the event.
The mattresses of the beds are made from polyethylene, while the frames that support them are made of cardboard. The beds have a width of 90 centimeters and a length of 200, with the possibility of extending up to 20 centimeters more in the case of those athletes who exceed the standard height measurement.
Originally, it was said that athletes should sleep carefully and not make sudden movements at night, as the material with which they were made could break, however, the athletes themselves discovered that these pieces of furniture had much more resistance than expected.
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Well, now, for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, it seems that the trend has changed (in part because there is no longer any danger of coronavirus infections), so the beds could serve a different purpose.
According to an interview by Brett Thornton, director of operations of Airweave US, for The Post, the beds are “designed to be much stronger than typical wooden bed frames”, and it has even been mentioned that they could support a total of 250 kilos, in addition to the fact that about 16 thousand beds were manufactured for all the inhabitants of the Olympic Village.
Well, the athletes who are already in Paris, have begun to upload videos to their social networks testing the resistance of these beds, and it seems that sex will not be a problem for them, as the beds have resisted jumps and all kinds of sudden movements on top of them.
In fact, it is notable that this year’s trend is not about athletes having sex, but rather that using these beds would serve, rather, the IOC’s purpose of reducing the carbon footprint that this type of event could leave on the environment, so that gold could be assured inside and outside the bed.