Alcohol Fuels Unsafe Sex

[slimvictor]

A new study shows the more a person drinks, the stronger their intention becomes to have unsafe sex. The spread of the HIV virus is mainly caused by unsafe sex and it is a major risk factor for the global burden of disease.

However the push and public perception against HIV has waned somewhat since its discovery in the 1980s and its incidence in developed countries, such as the US and UK has not been much reduced in the past decade. Obviously public health efforts need to be stepped up again.

There were uncertainties about the cause-and-effect relationship of heavy drinking and HIV infection. Researchers weren't sure if alcohol consumption caused HIV via unsafe sex, or whether certain personality traits in individuals, such as sensation-seeking or a disposition to risky behavior in general, would lead to both alcohol use and unsafe sex.

The study, published in the January 2012 issue of the journal Addiction, presents the results of 12 experiments that analyzed this cause-and-effect relationship in a more systematic way.

cont at
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/239055.php

 

[LSDMDMA&AMP]

doesn't alcohol fuel risky decisions and or sex (safe or unsafe) quite often?

 

[Thou]

This just in:


Bears shit in the woods. stop the presses

Journalism today is a fucking joke.

 

[Newbierock]

This is news? Anybody whos ever been out drinking can testify to this.

Nothing worse than a girl who tells you to leave the rubber off though. Fuck THAT! I ain't had no diseases before, and sure as fuck ain't starting now. Surely it comes down to the person too though? i've been barely able to move and still made a concious effort to slap a condom on..

 

[23536]

fun fact: in the Bahamas, any sex under the influence of alcohol can be prosecuted as rape because the woman cannot legally consent to sex if she is inebriated. I learned this after a baseball player from my school was charged with 2 counts of rape last year in Nassau, even though security cameras show that the 2 girls were willingly all over him, and all over one another.

 

[mattnotrik]

Id have never guessed it.

 

[nowdubnvr6]

Bullshit i dont know anyone thats ever gotten drunk in mexico and picked up a prostitute because they were hammered. What a bullshit article.

 

[fakeplastictrees4]

i think we need to spend more money on studies such as these.

 

[nAON]

Sure, it's obvious. But there's a difference between getting laid while drunk a couple times, and a systematic study demonstrating a correlation between alcohol use and HIV prevalence.

 

[severely etarded]

This just in:


Bears shit in the woods. stop the presses

Journalism today is a fucking joke.

Sure, it's obvious. But there's a difference between getting laid while drunk a couple times, and a systematic study demonstrating a correlation between alcohol use and HIV prevalence.

Let's do a systematic study to demonstrate correlation between bears and how many turds they leave in the woods...

 

[shishigami]

fun fact: in the Bahamas, any sex under the influence of alcohol can be prosecuted as rape because the woman cannot legally consent to sex if she is inebriated. I learned this after a baseball player from my school was charged with 2 counts of rape last year in Nassau, even though security cameras show that the 2 girls were willingly all over him, and all over one another.

You can't consent if you're under the influence in the United States either. This was made quite clear to us when discussing safe sex practices as a college freshman.

 

[mattnotrik]

You can't consent if you're under the influence in the United States either. This was made quite clear to us when discussing safe sex practices as a college freshman.

Is that actaully a serious law in the USA...? What would they classify as "under the influence", and how would they measure that at the time of the incident if it wasnt reported till after. I think there would be millions of cases of "rape" every day of this were true

 

[freehugs]

fun fact: in the Bahamas, any sex under the influence of alcohol can be prosecuted as rape because the woman cannot legally consent to sex if she is inebriated. I learned this after a baseball player from my school was charged with 2 counts of rape last year in Nassau, even though security cameras show that the 2 girls were willingly all over him, and all over one another.

This is a rising ideal in the states as well. We were lectured alllll about this the first week of college.

 

[Psychedelic Jay]

I am appalled at the time wasted for this story. It is common sense. People who are fubar normally don't think very well....

 

[f33lg00d]

Usingsjd alcoooohool makes u have sex get aids andd die!1!1!1