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A new study conducted by the NYC Department of Health shows that binge drinking is associated with risky sexual behavior...
Really?!
Come on, did you really need to have some long drawn out study to come to such a revolutionary conclusion. Go to a bar in the city at 2 a.m, go to a fraternity party on any day of the week, watch the oh so true scene in SuperBad where so many kids are willing and ready to get it on after chugging several drinks.
Drinking excessively leads to some very bad decision making, certainly not all the time, but we have all been there. The sudden realization the morning after that maybe you shouldn't have had those last 3 shots, because you don't exactly know what happened in the wee hours of the morning has happened to you, at least once.
Heidi E. Hutton, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine says, "The link between binge drinking and risky sexual behavior is complex." (It's not rocket science) "We wanted to examine one component of that relationship, whether binge drinking increased the risk of engaging in sexual behaviors and having STDs. We found gender differences in binge drinking among patients at an STD clinic, and also that binge drinking increased STD risk for women."
Now here is where I ask whether women are more at risk or are women more likely to get treated for an STD? Therefore, since this study was conducted in health clinics, wouldn't the stats show that more women in NY are getting treated for an STD than men. I mean they are obviously getting them from somewhere; it just doesn't show up.
The sad reality is that all the health classes in the world or shocking statistics doesn't deter people from engaging in unprotected sex, especially if you had a little too much to drink. Most of us suffer from the "not me" complex. The idea that bad things happen to other people; My invincibility protects me from everything. Maybe the NYC Department of Mental Health should conduct a study on that? Everyone knows that drinking leads to a whole world of badness but yet bars are booming with people on a nightly basis. Does this mean that we are insane? That we go out and repeat our same patterns but expect different results.
This study claims that having more than 3 drinks an hour makes you a binge drinker. I certainly know more binge drinkers than not and even before this study, I knew many who are being risky, even if its once and awhile.
There seems to be few things that scare us: unwanted pregnancy, herpes, gonorrhea, even AIDS.
Where is the study that explains why we have become desensitized to very real, very close dangers?
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