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Transnational Thursday for July 25, 2024

Transnational Thursday is a thread for people to discuss international news, foreign policy or international relations history. Feel free as well to drop in with coverage of countries you’re interested in, talk about ongoing dynamics like the wars in Israel or Ukraine, or even just whatever you’re reading.

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Also sex is back on the list of possibilities for athletes

I mean, if you were a person with a literally top 0.0001% body on the first deserved break of the year surrounded by 10000 more people in identical circumstances, why wouldn't you have sex that would put Dionysius to shame?

even being at top doesn't eliminate big disparity between male and female libidos

Athletes have more attractive bodies than average, but they don't have the most attractive bodies- those are models and actors. In fact the revealed preference is for most people, not the most athletic body available- men in particular seem to prefer more body fat than an Olympic athlete.

A bigger factor is probably that Olympic athletes are basically all young(often literal teenagers) and single, with supervisory authorities who don't really care if they get it on.

Not models or actors either, unless we're talking about softcore porn models.

I believe there is a view supported by certain talmudists that celibacy is not required within the bounds of marriage and the perimeter of the Olympic Village

An erotic eruv is erected!