For thousands of years, athletes and coaches have held a belief that having sexual intercourse before an athletic event will decrease an athlete's performance. This belief stems as far back as 1st Century Greece and physician Dr. Aretaeus's words of how if a man desired to get the most strength out of his body, he must keep semen inside of him. Move forward nearly two millenniums and the basis of this myth and idea is still in play today. During the entire month of World Cup soccer matches, coaches forbade their players from having sex. ...

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