Sexual Risk Behavior: The Role of Alcohol Intoxication and Sexual Arousal.Sexual Risk Behavior: The Role of Alcohol Intoxication intoxication, condition of body tissue affected by a poisonous substance. Poisonous materials, or toxins, are to be found in heavy metals such as lead and mercury, in drugs, in chemicals such as alcohol and carbon tetrachloride, in gases such as carbon monoxide, and and Sexual Arousal sexual arousal Horny/horniness, randy/randiness Physiology A state of sexual 'yellow alert' which has a mental component–↑ cortical responsiveness to sensory stimulation, and physical component–↑ penile sensitivity, neural response to stimuli, , Kelly C. Davis and William H. George, University of Washington; Julia R. Heiman, The Kinsey Institute; Jeanette Norris, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute Although research has documented an association between alcohol and sexual risk-taking, the roles of proximal factors in this relationship, such as acute alcohol intoxication Acute alcohol intoxication is synonymous with drunkenness, but context matters. The term acute alcohol intoxication is entrained in healthcare providers for use in the performance of their duties, often in emergencies. and sexual arousal, remain unknown. In this experimental investigation of the alcohol-risky sex link, male and female heterosexual participants (N = 288) randomly received a high alcohol dose or no alcohol and were then instructed to maximize or suppress their sexual arousal to erotic film clips Noun 1. film clip - a strip of motion picture film used in a telecast photographic film, film - photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies while their physiological sexual arousal was recorded. Participants then read an eroticized scenario involving a sexual encounter and rated their likelihood of engaging in sexually risky behaviors. Results revealed a direct relationship between alcohol intoxication and increased sexual risk-taking likelihood for men. For women, however, alcohol intoxication was only indirectly related to increased sexual risk-taking likelihood, through greater self-reported sexual arousal. These findings reveal that the pathways through which alcohol influences risky sexual behavior sexual behavior A person's sexual practices–ie, whether he/she engages in heterosexual or homosexual activity. See Sex life, Sexual life. may differ for men and women. |
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