Posted on 03/09/2009 5:50:54 PM PDT by Moonman62
New research finds young women may be drinking heavily to get attention of opposite sex, but men not impressed
WASHINGTON – College women may be drinking to excess to impress their male counterparts on campuses across the country, but a new study suggests most college men are not looking for a woman to match them drink for drink.
A survey of 3,616 college students at two American universities found an overwhelming majority of women overestimated the amount of alcohol a typical guy would like his female friends, dates or girlfriends to drink. The results can be found in the March issue of Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, published by the American Psychological Association.
"Although traditionally, men drink more than women, research has shown that women have steadily been drinking more and more over the last several decades," said the study's lead author, Joseph LaBrie, PhD, associate professor of psychology at Loyola Marymount University. "Our research suggests women believe men find excessive drinking sexually attractive and appealing, but it appears this is a giant misperception."
For this article, the researchers invited the participating students, ages 18 to 25, to complete an online survey during the 2007 fall semester. The students were at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles or the University of Washington. The women answered several questions to determine, on average, how many drinks they thought a typical college man would like his female friends to drink at a typical event, as well as the maximum number of drinks they thought the men would like their female friends to drink. They then had to say, on average, how many drinks they thought a woman would have to consume for a guy to consider being friends with her, consider dating her or consider her sexually attractive. The men were asked their actual preferences.
The researchers also asked the women to estimate how much they drank in any given week or month, and how much alcohol they thought the average woman at their university drank in any given week.
The results showed 71 percent of women overestimated the men's actual preference of drinks at any given event. The women overestimated by an average of one-and-a-half drinks. When the researchers looked at the different subgroups, 26 percent of women said that men would most likely want to be friends with a woman who drinks five or more drinks and 16 percent said that men would be most sexually attracted to a woman who drank that much alcohol. Both estimates were nearly double what the men actually preferred. They also found the women who overestimated the men's preferences were more likely to engage in excessive drinking.
"There is a great, and risky, disconnect here between the sexes," said LaBrie. "While not all women may be drinking simply to get a guy's attention, this may help explain why more women are drinking at dangerous levels. We believe universities and other public health organizations could use this information to help curb binge drinking among young women."
LaBrie is doing a follow-up study that looks at what men think women want them to drink to see if this perception has a similar effect on increased risky drinking.
Men have never brought whores home ‘to meet mom’.
Especially not when we’re buying.
Exactly. If you’re looking for a soul mate you don’t go to the club. Likewise, sometimes the club is exactly what you’re after.
For a ‘good time’, not a long time.
And since women get drunk faster than men do, everyone gets to see a woman sot at her most unattractive...not the kind of thing a decent man is looking for in a mate.
That’s exactly what I was thinking.
Likewise, sometimes the club is exactly what you’re after.
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So true, so true. ;)
I never had any interest in drunken women. Not even when I was a drunk myself.
“Societies that did not place boundaries around sexuality were stymied in their development. The subsequent dominance of the Western world can largely be attributed to the sexual revolution initiated by Judaism and later carried forward by Christianity.”
- Dennis Prager
If the woman is ugly, it is the man who needs to drink more. If the man is ugly, he’s out of luck anyway.
Same here, I was a hard partying, drinking wild man and I was never interested in a boozer chick, a female drunk is a truly pathetic thing to see.
I had lots of drunken female friends who partied with the best of us but I never had any interest in them.
Speak for yourself. If you knew my mother you’d appreciate the sentiment.
I don't think most men are looking for a woman to compete with, in ANYTHING. That's why I find it amusing to see women trying to out-man men, and then wondering why their feminine counterparts get the attention while they get to help gut the fish.
Don't get me wrong. I like a capable partner, and despise the posers and hothouse flowers who are "ladies" whenever there's any heavy lifting to be done, but rougher than new sandpaper any other time. But I find femininity attractive in a woman, and especially the confidence to express it without apologizing.
Considering that women who have had even one drink can charge you with rape if you sleep with her and she gets upset later, even one drink is too many.
Silly me.
This surprises you? Most females could have told you that. As a general rule young women act and dress the way they do to gain male attention. We actually need it and I don't just mean sexually.
If we have been given non-sexual male affection and approval from a father or a father figure then we are less likely to behave like sluts. The craving is soothed and we are able to carefully examine the young males before us and pick a mate calmly.
Lacking that we are willing to do anything to quiet that craving and, like a traveler dying of thirst, will plunge into any old mudhole.
This is a generality of course but from my observation it is pretty accurate.
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