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.
They are interested BEFORE they ever take a drink. That’s the way booze works. Booze can’t put desire there that doesn’t exist.
Hence the phrase: “blind drunk.”
Clearly that proves that consciousness does not fall under conscious or unconscious, but instead is also fluid. Where do I sign up for some grant money so that I can further study the issue at my local watering hole?
Studies prove that most homosexuals are not born that way, they just get sucked into it.
Drunk, sober, whatever, I don't even like to shake hands. Get physical with another man and you are gay.
What about a study which showed that females become more receptive to sexual activity with a male???
“That study” was run about 6000 years by the Sumerians. Egyptians. Gauls. Germans. French. Romans. Japanese. And the Vikings - Who had to steal somebody else’s beer first. .....
Don't know ... but you'll have to find someone else for a test subject. For me, those days are over.
Right and how many children sere totally fkd up by parents who raised them according to that moron Benjamine Spock?
I clicked on the thread just for the comments.
Carry on.
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Bullsqueeze!
I suspect that the authors of this “study” are queers.
Alcohol - where “any port in a storm” becomes “any port in the stern”?
“Nope. It just proves that if some people get drunk enough they will screw anything that moves. “
But there is a difference between answering a survey like this and actually doing what you indicate you might do.
Balderdash.
I have attended a party or two in my lifetime. Personal observation: Most men do not become “sexually fluid” when drunk, but they DO lower the bar on what they consider to be attractive in a woman.
“Hey, yassee that girl o’er there? Yeah, the one with the overbite an’ the unibrow. She’s kinda hot, what with that come hither look she’s givin’ me with that lazy eye.”
After the third martini every woman on Earth is bisexual.
Trust me on this.
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Alcohol also makes men more likely to punch their girlfriends in the face, doctor. So what’s your point?
There isn’t enough liquor in the world...
I remember my 20s, when I was young and stupid enough to believed propaganda crap like Alfred Kinsey’s studies of human sexuality. At that age I also had an uncounted number of drunken nights that I tend to remember better than the sober nights (a curse of how my memory seems to function). I can promise you that even then I never had the slightest interest in queer sex. The “study” smells like agenda driven propaganda just like Kinsey’s.
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