Posted on 12/12/2011 8:18:32 AM PST by Enosh
MONDAY, Dec. 12 (HealthDay News) — Drinking too much alcohol can lead to unsafe sex, a new study confirms.
Unsafe sex is the most common cause of HIV infection and finding ways to prevent unsafe sex is a major goal of public health efforts to prevent HIV/AIDS.
Alcohol use has long been associated with HIV incidence. However, it hasn’t been clear whether unsafe sex associated with alcohol use actually led to HIV infection, or whether certain personality traits, such as sensation-seeking or risky behavior, led to both alcohol use and unsafe sex.
In this study, researchers led by Jurgen Rehm, director of social and epidemiological research at theCentre for Addiction and Mental Health in Ontario, Canada, conducted 12 experiments that tested this cause-and-effect relationship. They concluded that alcohol affects decision-making and that this effect increases with the amount of alcohol consumed.
The more alcohol the participants drank, the more willing they were to engage in unsafe sex, the study authors said. For each 0.1 milligrams per milliliter increase in blood alcohol level, there was a 5 percent increase in a participant’s likelihood of having unsafe sex.
The study is published in the January issue of the journal Addiction.
“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 commented in a journal news release. “This result also helps explain why people at risk often show this behavior despite better knowledge: Alcohol is influencing their decision processes.”
More information
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has more about practicing safer sex atwomenshealth.gov.
They actually calculated the rate of "beer goggle" transformation impact into a quantifiable metric.
Note to the old farts, DO NOT MIX VIAGRA WITH TEQUILA!
Even though this was done in Canada....wouldn’t surprise me if it was STILL funded by our tax dollars.
Please don't tell me that taxpayer money was used to reach this conclusion!!!
Yep.
In other news, fire still hot, water still wet, and Obama still a stuttering cluster**** of a miserable failure.
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LOL!
Or, at the very least , “Unattractive Sex”.
Oh,yeah,I think I remember my grandmother’s-grandmother’s-grandmother’s-grandmother’s-grandmother’s-grandmother’s-grandmother’s-grandmother reading that on a stone tablet someplace....
We can’t cut even one penny from the federal budget because brilliant studies like this would go unfunded and we would all be in the dark. When will people wake up?
Your tax dollars at work. Who would have thunk it.
BEER, helping ugly people get laid for 100 years and counting.
When will they do a study that shows that bears **** in the woods, or that the Pope is Catholic? Or even more critically, that the absence of clouds at noontime increases the likelihood that the sky will be blue.
I think this “study” could have been done faster and cheaper by listening to any of a hundred country songs....
As the saying goes: A 2 at 10 becomes a 10 at 2....
Looking at that picture reminds me that most tattoo parlors would be out of business if not for alcohol too.
Or, more importantly, hit your thumb with a 24 ounce framing hammer, and it will hurt, for a long time.
No kidding!
Fixed it. This is a no brainer, many a girl has lost her virginity through the use of alcohol where as if she had stayed sober she would have saved it for some other guy. I wonder how much money was spent on this useless study?
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