Sex drunk

There's no question that taking drugs or drinking before you have sex has an effect on the, ahem, activities that follow. Surely this is something you've discussed among friends, but to give your next conversation about the nuances of sex under the influence a bit more weight, teams of researchers from New York University and Johns Hopkins University published two separate studies on the topic in the Archives of Sexual Behavior and Psychopharmacology. The first study in Archives of Sexual Behavior is an in-depth, qualitative study that focuses on the details of how marijuana and alcohol affect sex, and followed the sex lives of 24 participants — 12 men, 12 women, all heterosexual — to glean information. The second from Psychopharmacology focuses on cocaine's effect on sex based on controlled administration of the drug to 12 participants who didn't know whether they were taking the drug or a placebo during the study. Some of the surface findings seem cool and fun — people are more talkative!

If you're getting your rocks off, which is better - sex when you're drunk or sex when you're high? There are people in the alcohol camp who reckon that the old beer goggles makes the whole messy business better. Thankfully, though, scientists have waded in with some proper research to finally end the debate. Good old science. Research by New York University basically looked at people's responses to sex while under the influence of booze and pot. They described their bodies as being more sensitive on weed and more numb and desensitised after drinking alcohol. Interestingly drunk sex last longer probably the numbness but the perception of how long sex lasted while high was longer because 'the feeling of time can slow down on marijuana'.

A criminal barrister says men should not sleep with women who've drank any alcohol - because consent laws are misunderstood by some men. She wrote: "The law is simple. If a woman has had a drink, and says after sex she did not have the choice, freedom and capacity to consent, the man can be accused of rape.

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