Men might feel like studs after a few drinks but nothing could be further from the truth, regrets
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IT'S PARTY night and the lads are on the razz. They've all knocked back a drink or ten, and now they're slavering over anything in a skirt. What mysterious process is going on in their brains that makes them equate a capacity to consume alcohol with being a man? The same, perhaps, that makes them believe that beery breath and slurred speech guarantees their success with the woman they fancy.
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Just a few drinks can make most men see Cindy Crawford in any woman. Some, however, find that an evening propping up the bar leaves them more interested in drinking songs than sex. Even one alcoholic binge could be enough to dampen a man's passion, while very heavy drinkers often experience a total loss of libido. The main reason is that alcohol lowers levels of the "male" sex hormone testosterone in the blood, and one of testosterone's many jobs in a man is to maintain and regulate the sex drive.
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But alcohol may do more than cause droop, whether occasional or permanent. It can also actually diminish the size of a man's genitalia. Heavy drinking can damage the testes, says Ernest Abel of Wayne State University, Detroit, who defines a heavy drinker as anyone who consumes more than five drinks (75 millilitres of alcohol) a session twice or more a week. One study of alcoholics found that half showed some signs of shrinking testes, according to Timothy Peters of King's College London.
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Wine and women
In a study of women aged between 18 and 35 years old, Peter Eriksson of the National Public Health Institute in Helsinki found that even very low "doses" of alcohol-a couple of drinks or so-can very quickly increase concentrations of the sex hormone testosterone in the blood. This could be linked to increased libido in women.
The alcohol-induced rise in testosterone is particularly clear in women who are on the Pill and non-Pill users who are ovulating. "This could explain why women display an activated sexual urge even in situations of heavy acute drinking in which many men already have lost both the urge and performance," says Eriksson. The reason alcohol pushes up testosterone levels is unknown. However, just as with men, women who are chronic heavy drinkers can suffer loss of libido and performance.
hmmm... interesting
