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We take a moment from our ongoing rage-a-thon to bring you the day's public service announcement.

Today's WSJ (no link -- that shit costs real money) has a story on Olympic athletes abstaining from sex to improve performance. In it, we find this alarming fact:

In 2000, the Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine published a comprehensive review of the topic titled "Does Sex the Night Before Competition Decrease Performance?" The author, Ian Shrier, a professor of epidemiology and family medicine at McGill University in Montreal and former president of the Canadian Academy of Sport Medicine, reviewed 31 articles and studies that rejected a number of widespread beliefs, including the frequently cited concern that sex the night before competition will tire out an athlete. According to the artcile, normal sexual intercourse between married partners expends only 25 to 50 calories -- the energy equivalent of walking up two flights of stairs.

Hmmm. Two flights, eh? Maybe for those wussy Canadians. I mean, the Vega doesn't want to brag, but...

Oddly enough, the article continues,

In addition, the article dismisses the notion that sex leads to muscle weakness, citing several studies involving hand-grip strength tests

Why would they test "hand-grip strength" in a study about sex?

Heh. Heh.

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