From a classic 1973 film with Gene Wilder.
Posted on 05/04/2017 1:15:38 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy
Many of us are all too familiar with the "beer goggles" effect: friends and strangers alike become more attractive after a drink or two. Undoubtedly, drinking alcohol lowers our inhibitions and makes us more open to experimentation with the same sex. In a new study, published in The Journal of Social Psychology, straight men were found to be more physically attracted to other men after a few drinks.
"Most notably, alcohol intake was related to increased sexual willingness of men with a same-sex partner, suggesting a potential shift in normative casual sexual behavior among heterosexual men," wrote the authors in the study.
Researchers recruited a total of 83 straight men and women who were bar hopping in the Midwest at night. The participants were asked to complete a survey about how many drinks they'd had that night. In addition, they had to watch a 40-second video of either a physically attractive man or woman drinking at a bar and chatting with the bartender. Then, the participants rated their sexual interest in the person in the video, from buying them a drink to going home together to have sex.
Unsurprisingly, men showed high interest when the attractive woman was on the screen; women naturally were more attracted to the man. Moreover, men were more likely to make sexual comments about the woman after the video. Overall, they expressed more sexual interest in the women, regardless of how much they had. This coincides with previous research that concedes men tend to be more lax about casual sex with strangers.
However, the researchers noted an interesting observation: the more alcohol men drank, the more interested they became in the man in the video. Men who had nothing to drink showed no interest. Those who consumed over 10 alcoholic drinks were more likely to entertain the idea of gay sex just as much as having sex with a woman.
"Sexual willingness was only influenced by alcohol intake and perceived attractiveness of a same-sex prospective partner," the authors wrote.
In women, the more alcohol they drank, the more interested they were in other women, and the opposite sex.
This suggests sexuality for men and women does not fall under straight and gay, but instead is fluid. A 2016 study found women have been evolutionarily designed to have same-sex encounters. The researchers proposed women's sexuality has evolved to be more fluid than men's as a mechanism to reduce conflict and tension among co-wives in polygynous marriages.
In men, studies have found a large number of straight men watch gay porn and even have gay sexual fantasies. Researchers believe homosexuality has evolved in humans because it helps us bond with one another. In other words, sexual behavior is not a means to an end of reproduction, but it can also be used to help form and maintain social bonds.
It's no surprise drinking alcohol leads to sexual behavior, and even makes us sexually fluid, and less inhibited. Alcohol's influence on specific brain circuits has led us to feel euphoric and less anxious. It makes us more empathetic and leads us to see other people — even the same sex — as more attractive.
Alcohol may allow us to freely express our sexual side, without judgment or reservations.
My God if that happened to me I’d never drink again.
Talk about being scared sober. Jeeebus.
Wait. What? Alcohol makes more men’s sexual fluid?
All the alcohol manufacturers and their lawyers are freaking out.
They are now going to have to find room on every label to put the warning: Caution: Drinking this beverage may cause homosexual tendencies to emerge.
I have known straight guys who experienced gay molestation as a youth who could be swayed for a night. They still ended up straight, with a wife and kids.
So, this sort of study supports the “gay” agenda.
What if there was a study, which showed that under some circumstances, men become much more focused on the female. Would such a study ever see the light of day??
What about a study which showed that females become more receptive to sexual activity with a male???
So they want to have a study which purports to show, that under certain circumstances, all of us can be “gay”.
What a bizarre study to have in the first place.
Guess what: a mind altering drug will alter your mind. Are they still trying to push homosexuality as normal if you have to take a drug to become that?
I must have been drinking the wrong kind of alcohol, because it never had this effect on me. It only made it more likely I might seriously injury someone making this dumb ass assumption.
Confucious says “When the guys start looking good, stop drinking, buddy.”
And being drunk leads some people do fall off roofs and die. So this proves nothing, and is stupid.
I hate to disappoint the authors of this piece, but it didn't make the dudes "attractive".
Wait. What? Alcohol makes more men’s sexual fluid?
Did you hear the one about the guy who got so drunk he passed out outside the bar? When he woke up he had a quarter in his hand and sore ass...
There was a related study about whether or not a man with a gun to his head will perform it on another. It seems some will. Who da thunk.
10 drinks?
A male is more attractive after 10 drinks?
Heck. They were looking for somebody strong enough to hold them up off the vomit on the floor.
A kid in my high school (40 years ago) got really drunk and screwed a sheep. He did it in front of several drunk witnesses and never lived it down. I suppose today it would be considered just another equally valid gender expression.
As I noted above, this just further proves that if some people get drunk enough they will screw anything that moves.
Well,...several scientific studies have found that squirrels forced to smoke 50 joints a day tended to play with their nuts, rather that storing them.
Everyone’s a 10 at 2 AM?
Not in a million years for this cowboy.
From a classic 1973 film with Gene Wilder.
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