Anna Benson Needs Sex

James Joyner | Monday, December 20, 2004

Women of Player

Anna Benson has issues … with major League Baseball. Not the kind Pete Rose faces but ones that are far more personal. The wife of Pittsburgh Pirate ace Kris Benson has made it her mission to take on one of sport’s oldest taboos: No sex before a game.

“I hate it. There’s no scientific proof that sex is going to hurt your pitching performance,” says Anna. But she’s fighting an uphill battle that dates back decades. Advocates of abstaining prior to competition are legion and range from trainers to coaches to athletes. But Anna persists.

“Each player has his own ritual, and Kris’s is no sex when he pitches. It pisses me off because if you tell me I can’t have something then that just makes me want it more. I like having sex with Kris. We’ve had some pretty nasty fights over this issue.”

The upside to her personal crusade is that she believes she has found the cure to the curse facing every pro athlete’s wife: groupies. Her simple solution: sex.

“Sex is healthy and wonderful,” Anna says. “And we like it. But we do it with each other, and we stay within the promises we made when we were married.” Sex is not only healthy for the Bensons, it’s also a personal adventure, one that Kris and Anna don’t mind talking about. “If what we have to say helps other couples, then that’s a good thing,” Anna says.

So what do the Bensons do to keep their sex life so exciting? Pretty much whatever they feel like. “We like video taping ourselves while having sex,” Anna says. “It’s a lot of fun making sex tapes. We share them only with each other. I mean, what guy doesn’t want to videotape himself and his woman having sex? All men want to.” Another of the couple’s aphrodisiacs is phone sex. “Every time Kris goes out of town, one of the first things we do is get on the phone and have phone sex. It’s still the two of us. The only difference is a phone and a movie going on.”

Then, of course, there is the more obvious solution. “Sometimes I’ll fly to whatever city where the Pirates are playing, and if Kris isn’t pitching then we have sex.” These road trips are a part of a nationwide quest for the couple. “We want to christen every city that Kris has played in during his professional career,” Anna says. “We have a ways to go, but that’s something we want to do. We haven’t even done it at the new stadium in Pittsburgh [PNC Park], but I’m sure we’ll get that done.”

The Pirates’ old home, legendary Three Rivers Stadium, was site of one of the couple’s more bizarre encounters. “We hadn’t had sex for a few days so we got into the back seat of our SUV in the parking lot at Three Rivers and while we were doing it fans were beating on the windows,” Anna says. The vehicle had tinted windows so the Bensons continued their business. “We finished screwing then Kris got out and greeted the fans. Hell, I’m not stopping sex with my man so some overzealous fan can have an autograph!”

And no matter how much energy he may exert during the game, Kris knows he has a follow-up performance when he steps off the field.

“After Kris has pitched in a game, we’re usually half naked before we get home and then we get after it. We’ve even pulled over and had sex on the way home.”

So the next time you see Kris Benson giving it his all on the mound for the Pirates, remember … his night is still very young.

About the Author: James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. He lives just outside the Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife and infant daughter.

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