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 personal experience suggests that this is complete b*ll sh*t.
ML/NJ
You are correct
Some research is too stupid
Too much booze. = can no longer tell the true from the false
Yeah. I can see that as one label I would never want to acquire.
Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on your perspective), I have always been a “cheap drunk” as these matters are reckoned and I can be confident that drunken unconsciousness would have overtaken me long before Miss Baaa became attractive.
Elsewhere it is a trope for two men to engage in all sorts of homosexual acts, while reassuring each other that they are *not* homosexual acts, by saying “Nohomo!” to each other.
This article should be handed out at AA meetings.
Perverts are always hoping they are not perverts.
But they are.
Or anything that can’t move.
Men who do things to men while drunk = sexually fluid.
Men who do things to women while drunk = rape.
Liberals.. they are NUTS.
I was on the varsity drinking team in my college days and never discovered “sexual fluidity”. But then I didn’t get indoctrinated by perverts in public schools like today’s kids are.
I gotta admit that having a couple of beers makes me really want Jack Daniels.
1) Sexuality is not fluid; It is the fluid they are imbibing doing the choosing.
2) This is what saner times called sexual excess, but should properly be termed homoeroticism.
3) There is no such thing as homosexuality - none whatsoever. According to real science, sexuality is intrinsically tied to the perpetuation of a species. There is no functional form of sexuality that can occur between two members of the same sex.
4) Science used to teach that all sexuality cared about - how is that for anthropomorphism? - was spreading the gene pool, and that love and morality were fictions created by evolution to get us to fornicate. Now, due to Cultural Marxism taking over the sciences even further, they have added absurd and inconsistent moral relativism to their arrogant and condescending secular atheism.
5) People fall in and out of homoerotic behavior precisely because it is a blurring of the lines that God created due to Original Sin. Sex is sex; everything else is eroticism.
6) Most so-called science nowadays is done to get grants and promote leftism.
7) They used to say, God is dead. I say, Science is dead.
“... and that love and morality were fictions created by evolution to get us to fornicate....”
That is, get us to fornicate, then stay loyal long enough to raise the young that resulted form the fornication.
Get drunk enough to pass out, and there's no telling where you'll wake up or with whom.
It doesn't necessarily mean you're sexuality is fluid. It just means you've lost consciousness.
Since it “came out” that Obama “considered” a gay relationship the past few days, now every man has to be potentially gay so we supossedly can’t laugh at our pansy ex-president’s gayness.
Someone sent me a video about why you should not get drunk...the guy woke up in a bed with a pair of xxxxx large panties...
Medical Daily indeed.
It’s the homo agenda.
Yes. Gives the phrase “scared straight” a whole new meaning.
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