PARIS CATERS TO OLYMPIC ROMANCE WITH 220,000 FREE CONDOMS

Thu 21 March 2024:

220,000 condoms will be given out by the Paris Olympics organizers to competitors who wish to get romantic during this year’s Games in the City of Love.

Athletes are free to engage in sexual activity even if their primary concentration is on sports; this is in contrast to the last Olympics in Tokyo, when they were advised to “avoid unnecessary forms of physical contact” because to the Covid pandemic.

According to Laurent Dalard, who oversees first aid and health services for Paris 2024, around 200,000 condoms for men and 20,000 for women will be provided at the athletes’ village during the Games, which run from July 26 to August 11.

He said to reporters on Tuesday, “We don’t know how many people are likely to use them and obviously we’ll adapt to the requirements if needed.”

The European Union’s health agency warned on March 7 about a “troubling” surge in sexually transmitted infections (STIs) across the continent over the previous year.

In 2022, gonorrhoea cases in the EU rose by 48 percent, syphilis was up 34 and chlamydia 16 percent, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).

The beds at the Paris Games might also be a passion killer, given that they are all singles, made of cardboard, and are usually two to a room.

No alcohol will be served, however.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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