Sex is back at the Olympics this year, but could it affect athletes’ performance? [Video]

What happens in the Olympic village may stay in the Olympic village, but how does a setting that’s known for a lively hookup culture impact athletes’ performances?

As the 2024 Games heat up in Paris, we asked experts what the intimacy ban lift, which was set in place during the 2020 Tokyo games because of the COVID pandemic, might mean for this year’s event.

Sex does not seem to have any positive or negative impact on people’s physical capacities, sociologist and relationship expert Jennifer Gunsaullus told CBS News — but, there are a few related things that could affect performance, including hookup culture itself.

“In the Olympic Village, it’s so much around the hookup scene, which often involves staying up later, getting less sleep, drinking and partying … things like that. So in terms of the physical aspects, those seem to be the biggest issues,” she said. “Clearly, …