The cardboard beds, used in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are returning to the Olympic Village in Paris for the forthcoming Olympics. Although the beds are being termed as the ‘

‘anti-sex’ beds, the organizers have clarified that the beds made of cardboard in the athletes' village have been chosen for their environmental credentials, not to prevent competitors from having sex.

The clarification came after several reports that the beds, manufactured by Japanese company Airweave and already used during the Tokyo 2020 Games, were to obstruct athletes from jumping under the covers together in the City of Love. 

The fully modular Airweave beds can be customized to accommodate long and large body sizes, with the mattresses — made out of resin fibre — available with different firmness levels.

After the Games, the bed frames will be recycled while the mattresses and pillows will be donated to schools or associations.

Athletes will sleep in single beds, two or three to a room, in the village, a newly built complex close to the main athletics stadium in a northern suburb of the capital.

However, the athletes who already arrived at the Olympic Village in Paris have started checking out the anti-sex cardboard beds! Australia’s Daria Saville and Ellen Perez ‘exercised’ a bit on the beds to test out its strength. Ireland’s Rhys McClenaghan jumped, ran and even did handstands on the bed. “When I tested them last time, they withstood my testing. Maybe I wasn’t rigorous enough…” he said.

Great Britain’s Tom Daley called the beds “pretty sturdy” and shared a video on Instagram. Australia’s Tilly Kearns though complained that the beds were too stiff.