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India’s cricket coach Gary Kirsten is taking flak in the media after a dossier emerges in which players are encouraged to have sex to bolster their cricket performance.

By LIFS October 9, 2009 at 9:26 AM

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India’s cricket coach Gary Kirsten is under fire for encouraging players to have sex to bolster their performance — cricket performance, that is.

Gary Kristen is not the only one scratching his head over the disclosure that he counseled Indian cricket players to have sex to bolster their sports performance

A dossier distributed to the 15 cricket players participating in the Champions Trophy in Centurion, which was leaked to the press includes a chapter titled: “Does sex increase performance?” the pointed answer to which, it says, is: “Yes, it does, so go ahead and indulge.”
The article explains that sex “increases testosterone levels, which causes an increase in strength, energy, aggression and competitiveness…. Conversely, not having sex for a few months causes a significant drop in testosterone level in both males and females with the corresponding passiveness and decrease in aggression.”

Kirsten denies encouraging players to engage in sexual activity before a match, blaming his conditioning coach, Paddy Upton, for authoring the controversial dossier, ostensibly to provide background information on the topic: “I would like to state that I have never, and I repeat, never encouraged or told the team or any player to engage in any form of sexual activity. These allegations are absolutely not true and completely against my religious and moral beliefs.”

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