2014 World Cup Sex: Yes For U.S., No For Mexico, Brazilians Limited To ‘Normal’ Sex

The 2014 World Cup will be a lot more fun for players on the American team than for their counterparts competing for Mexico, Germany, Chile, and defending world champion Spain. Players from those countries have been prohibited by their managers from engaging in sex for the duration of the month-long international football championship, held this time around in Brazil.

Earlier this month, Mexican manager Miguel Herrera announced that while in Brazil, his players will be required to refrain from sex. And he doesn’t believe they will find the enforced celibacy difficult.

“If a player can’t go one month or 20 days without having sexual relations, then they are not prepared to be a professional player,” Herrera said. “All the players we have selected have a pretty good resume, they all have won great things, they have been champions, and they know what we want to achieve. So then we will not be looking for sex or having sex at the World Cup just to have it.”

But when recently asked his view on the Mexican policy, United States Manager and former German international Jurgen Klinsmann said that while he “respects the Mexican approach,” his players will not be subject to the same restrictions on their sexual pursuits.

“I think every nation is different,” said Klinsmann, whose own home country, Germany, has also banned its players from having sex during the Brazil World Cup. “We are very casual in the way we approach things. Their families can come pretty much any time, they will be at the games, they can come to the hotel and we can have barbecues together. But once we go on the field for training and for the games we are very serious and down to business.”

The idea of the French, of all people, suffering a sex ban seems unthinkable, and accordingly, France manager Didier Deschamps has joined Klinsmann in allowing his players to pursue sexual relations even as the World Cup competition is ongoing. However, Deschamps added the caveat that, “it all depends on when, how, and how much.”

Players from the host nation, Brazil, however, will be under an unusual “have it both ways” policy, as manager Luiz Felipe Scolari announced that his players may engage in sex as long as they don’t tire themselves out. In other words, no “acrobatics” in the bedroom — and Scolari says he’ll be watching.

“The players can have normal sex during the World Cup,” the Brazil boss said. “Usually normal sex is done in balanced way, but there are certain forms, certain ways and others who do acrobatics. We will put limits and survey the players.”

While players from Bosnia-Herzogovina are also prohibited from engaging in sexual intercourse, manager Safet Susic said, players are free to engage in other forms of sexual gratification. “They can even masturbate if they want,” Susic said.

A study done in 1995 compared the physical fitness of men who have had sex within the past 12 hours with those who abstained. The research tested how efficiently the men processed oxygen, and found that “there is no scientific evidence that sex impairs athletic performance.”