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"Researchers" are working hard over there in Europe, answering the big questions.

But what about hockey fans? I'm all for a euphoric win once in a while, but if people are seriously having more fun watching sports than bumping uglies, they really need to improve on the quality of the latter.

Study says soccer is like sex for fans

UPDATED APR 19, 2012 4:43 AM ET

Soccer fans get as excited watching a big game as they do during a night of passionate love-making, European researchers claimed.

Scientists from the Netherlands and Spain studied the hormone levels of Spanish fans during a match and found that levels of the sex hormone testosterone soared in male and female soccer fans regardless of their team's success.

Lead researcher Leander van der Meij, from Amsterdam's Vu University, said fans also experienced a greater secretion of the "stress" hormone cortisol, an effect that is "consistent with the social self-preservation theory."

The spike in cortisol secretion suggests that the fans -- younger, more devoted fans in particular -- experienced a threat to their social esteem if their team did not win.

The study was published Wednesday in the journal PLoS One.
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Sure testosterone activity may be the similar in both settings (sex and watching sports), but there are other changes in the body occurring that might for all we know be different between the two, especially the having fun part, that's not necessarily mediated by testosterone.

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"Researchers" are working hard over there in Europe, answering the big questions.

But what about hockey fans? I'm all for a euphoric win once in a while, but if people are seriously having more fun watching sports than bumping uglies, they really need to improve on the quality of the latter.

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