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Unprotected Sex More Likely After Drinking, Study Confirms

by J. Camm on December 13, 2011 at 5:00pm - comments
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Unprotected Sex More Likely After Drinking, Study Confirms

Here's what I'm proposing: No more studies about sexual stupidity. As much as I love seeing idiots waste hundreds of thousands of dollars on this research, enough is enough. Like were there no good-time-having males around to ask this question to? You walk up to 100 guys on the street and this research practically conducts itself. Because of course drinking makes us want to have unprotected sex, and you know what else makes us want to have unprotected sex? EVERYTHING. Even the emoticon vag*na symbol ({}). Just look at that bald beauty. 

According to Fox News

How much alcohol a person drinks directly affects how likely they are to have unsafe sex, a new review shows.

On average, every 0.1 milligram per milliliter increase in study participants' blood alcohol levels raised their likelihood of having unprotected sex by 5 percent, the researchers found.

Canadian researchers looked at 12 studies that examined the link between people's blood alcohol content (BAC) and how likely they were to say they would use a condom during intercourse. In all of the experiments, researchers had split the study participants into two groups, and asked one group consume alcohol, while the other group did not drink. Participants were then reported whether they would engage in unsafe sex.

The findings help explain why people who've been drinking engage in unsafe sex despite knowing better, study researcher Jürgen Rehm, the director of the Social and Epidemiological Research at Canada's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, said in a statement. "Alcohol is influencing their decision processes."

"Drinking has a causal effect on the likelihood to engage in unsafe sex, and thus should be included as a major factor in preventive efforts for HIV," Rehm said.

Because the participants reported their own likeliness of having sex without a condom, there is the potential for bias, or underreporting regarding participants' willingness to have unprotected sex.

The researchers noted that not all studies that have examined this link have been published, and after they accounted for this, the increased likelihood of having sexafter drinking may be only 3 percent.

Pass it on: Drinking alcohol may directly affect a person's intention to have unprotected sex.

When it comes to sex, the only thing drinking really affects is the quality of the chick were willing to have unprotected sex with.

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