The effect of alcohol on sexual risk-taking among young men and women

Prescription Drug Misuse and Sexual Behavior Among Young Adults

“…However, gender differences in the associations between alcohol and other drug use and sexual risk behavior have been less consistent in the literature. In experimental studies, alcohol and placebo-condition men were less willing to engage in sex in a hypothetical encounter than were sober men, while the opposite was true for women, such that alcohol and placebo-condition women were more willing to engage in the hypothetical sex than sober women (Cho & Span, 2010). Among STD clinic patients, alcohol use was associated with risk behavior and STD diagnosis among women but unrelated to risk behavior and disease outcomes among men (Hutton, McCaul, Santora, & Erbelding, 2008).…”

Sex-Related Alcohol Expectancies Among African American Women Attending an Urban STI Clinic

“…This sexual double standard, different standards of sexual permissiveness for women and men, is widely internalized by women (Crawford & Popp, 2003), as it was in our sample. Importantly, women who expected drinking to resolve the dissonance between their sexual desire and their prohibitions against it have placed themselves in risky sexual situations where they could become impaired by alcohol's effects and experience adverse consequences (Cho & Span, 2010; Crowe & George, 1989; Fromme et al, 1999; Hendershot et al, 2007). …”

“…Finally, we recommend altering SRAEs by strengthening opposing behaviors and experiences. For example, interventions aimed at women could challenge the sexual double standard [80], the necessity to consume alcohol to justify having sex (Cho & Span, 2010; Leigh, 1990) or the reliance on alcohol to enhance the sexual experience (Messman-Moore, Ward, & DeNardi, 2013). …”

Sex and risk in young women's tourist experiences: Context, likelihood, and consequences

“…This finding resonates with the triad of alcohol, sex, and tourism that has been widely highlighted in the literature (Apostolopoulos et al, 2002;Berdychevsky et al, 2010;Diken & Laustsen, 2004;Maticka-Tyndale & Herold, 1997;Maticka-Tyndale et al, 2003;Mewhinney et al, 1995;Thomas, 2000). Considering the disinhibiting role of alcohol uncovered in this study, it is important to mention that sexual risktaking in adolescence frequently occurs in conjunction with alcohol consumption (Brookmeyer & Henrich, 2009;Cho & Span, 2010;Wade & Heldman, 2012). The findings also emphasized the expectancy effect, as opposed to the pharmacological intoxication effect (Cho & Span, 2010), providing women with a psychological excuse for sexual risk-taking in tourism.…”

“…Considering the disinhibiting role of alcohol uncovered in this study, it is important to mention that sexual risktaking in adolescence frequently occurs in conjunction with alcohol consumption (Brookmeyer & Henrich, 2009;Cho & Span, 2010;Wade & Heldman, 2012). The findings also emphasized the expectancy effect, as opposed to the pharmacological intoxication effect (Cho & Span, 2010), providing women with a psychological excuse for sexual risk-taking in tourism. This expectancy effect partially alleviates responsibility for sexual behaviors that might not fit a woman's script as dictated by sexual double standards (Eaton & Rose, 2011;Jonason & Fisher, 2009;McCabe et al, 2010).…”