Alcohol and Sex.

"You slept with who?" "Yeah, man. I was wasted. She looks better that way."


Photo from WeHeartIt.



We all the basic thing about alcohol. Some don't taste all that good because it's strong, some taste alright because it's mixed, it impairs your judgment, clouds your thinking, and as I posted before, drinking too much of it can result in alcohol poisoning and kill you.

But honestly, one of the BIGGEST things I hear about alcohol is what it does to you sexually.

- In 1997, 40% of convicted rape and sexual assault offenders said that they were drinking at the time of their crime.

I've heard so much about people who have been raped or assaulted in some way because either 1.) They were passed out from being under the influence of alcohol, or 2.) their attacker was under the influence of alcohol.

Examples of these stories:

"Three more people have been arrested in connection with the gang rape and beating of a 15-year-old girl outside her high school homecoming dance in an attack that has generated widespread outrage."
(This story can be found here.)


"She says her last memory is of passing out on the bathroom floor and waking up in intense pain at 10 am, her clothes in a heap around her ankles."
(This story, also an alcohol/gang rape, is here.)


"I got really drunk and blacked out and this guy had sex with me while I was passed out and he's 24."
(This experience is here.)


So as you can see, rape is sadly one of the many common dysfunctions that come with being under the influence or intoxicated by alcohol.

Similar things that tend to go wrong have to do with pictures. The internet is a window to absolutely EVERYONE'S room. If you post something, it's there forever. If you put a photo out, it stays, and it can and most likely will circulate somehow. Sometimes it can damage your reputation. It can humiliate you, all sorts of things.

There's a lot of cases in which women are passed out, undressed, and have photos taken of them and posted online.

"a 30-year-old Sarasota man was arrested Monday after he stripped a sleeping woman of her clothes, took photographs of her nude body and then forgot to take the camera with him."
(this full story can be found here.)






Next to all that, there's the obvious.

IT'S KIND OF HARD TO PUT ON A CONDOM PROPERLY OR AT ALL WHEN YOU'RE DRUNK.

That means...PREGNANCY OR STDS. How fun.

Let's look at Knocked Up for an example of that.





Yup, funny movie. But not a funny situation if it happened to YOU.

Considering 1.) you might be in college and not ready for a child, 2.) might just not in general be ready for a child, 3.) you'll have a baby, 4.) you might be having that baby with someone you hardly know. Do you really want that person in you and your kids life if they turned out to be...well...yeah?

Of course there's abortion. But that's expensive, people frown upon it, and can you really live with knowing you killed your kid?

There's also adoption. But...really? A kid of yours is out in the world being raised by someone other than you because of YOUR choices?

So it's better to just...NOT have drunken unprotected sex.

For STD reasons also. STD's are on the rise, as we all know.

Decide to engage in anal sex while you're drunk? You have a chance of getting AIDs.

Here's some STD links:

http://www.cdc.gov/STD/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexually_transmitted_disease
http://www.urologychannel.com/std/index.shtml

WARNING: THE PHOTO YOU ARE ABOUT TO SEE IS GRAPHIC.

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(A male with a case of HPV (gential warts) photo from here.)



(A female with a case of HPV. Photo found here.)



(A female with HERPES. Photo from here.)


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Honestly, I puked a little in my mouth from those photos. So please...


DON'T GET DRUNK AND DO SOMETHING YOU'LL REGRET.