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Watching porn might improve men's weightlifting performance

8/20/2012

At the 2016 Olympics, there may be a new performance enhancement in use: porn. A group of researchers at the National Center for Biotechnology Information, who undoubtedly love their jobs, measured testosterone levels of weightlifters who had watched various videos. The researchers determined that watching footage of porn, as well as footage of aggressive training, raised testosterone and heightened athletes' performance. One assumes the next step will be to study the effects on sprinters, rowers, wrestlers and such. And, of course, what kind of videos might boil the blood of female athletes. We'd suggest footage of Rush Limbaugh talking. [Source]

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Would something like this transfer to other sports?