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.
Who knew!? :-)
It amazes me how much money can be wasted on studies that are essentially “common sense”.....
Who knew???
What’s the difference between a dog and a fox?
About 3 drinks.
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/o/ogdennash109366.html
Dorthy Parker did say “Pearls before Swine”, but the actual quote from the Bible is “Cast not pearls before swine”. When DP used it, she was entering a building with Clare Booth Luce, who deferred to DP, saying, “Age before beauty”. Dorthy graciously accepted and strode in saying “Pearls before swine.”
; )
That's what I was thinking of when I picked the screen name.
****Another way of saying it is “the girls always look better at closing time.”****
“Under the seat, a bottle in a bag,
Made to affect the senses!
He poured out a drink for Margie Grey,
And broke down her defenses”.
**Jose Quervo, you are a friend of mine...***
“All night long make tropic love,
Then sit in hot sun and cool off!
Drinking rum and coca, cola...”
Well....Yeah.....Probably....
LOL
Too True!
Chime in Laz...
” Alcohol is influencing their decision processes.”
Can’t fool these folks!
Hmmm...When I was a lot younger, I found that too much sex was linked to unsafe use of alcohol...
Candy’s dandy.....but liquor’s quicker
That's what Lewis Grizzard said after his fourth divorce.But he married for a fifth time just before the operation which he did not survive.
Please tell me taxpayer funds weren’t used ^H^H^H^H wasted on this “study”...
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