The few studies that have been performed, have covered different angles such as gender, sports, measured chemicals in the body or varied measured muscular tests, in order to determine whether or not having sexual intercourse before an athletic event truly does hurt an athletes performance. ... Over a two-day span, each athlete would be monitored while undergoing two maximal strength tests, one two hours after sexual intercourse and the other ten hours after sexual intercourse, and a one-hour arithmetic stress test paired with an arithmetic mental concentration test. ... When the athlete had r...

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