Abstention from sex and other pre-game rituals used by college male varsity athletes
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ABSTRACT:
The main purpose of the present study was to see if college varsity athletes believe abstention from sex before a game helps their performance. To do this, varsity football (n=83) and baseball (n=73) players from three universities took an anonymous survey asking how often they engaged in each of five ritualistic behaviors before a game and, for each one they used, how much they believed it helped their performance. Results showed that football players "usually" abstained from sex before a game, while baseball players only abstained "sometimes." Consistently, football players were more likely than baseball players to believe abstention helped their performance. The main ways all players believed abstention helped was by conserving strength and by increasing energy. Football players also were more likely than baseball players to engage in other rituals. These included eating the same food, prayer (and greater belief that prayer helped their performance), and abstention from alcohol or other drugs (and greater belief this helped their performance). The only ritual football players were less likely than baseball players to engage in, was to wear the same clothes. Varsity athletes were both more religious and more sexually active than non-athlete controls. As found previously, team players were more tolerant of premarital sex than individual (i.e. track) athletes.
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