You don’t want to end up high and dry

Tracy Ann

This is what alcohol and marijuana do to your sex life, according to science

You don’t want to end up high and dry

Tracy Ann

Nov 23, 2017

Alcohol and marijuana can have different effects on your body, brain and your sex life. If you’ve ever toked up and gotten down, chances you may be interested in knowing what a New York University study may have to say. The research published recently in the Archives of Sexual Behaviour has identified the exact effect of marijuana and alcohol on our sex lives. For the sake of the study, researchers interviewed 24 participants — 12 men and 12 women all heterosexual — about their experiences with alcohol and marijuana use during sex.

The findings revealed that being under influence could potentially lead people to choose partners they would normally never choose and, more often than not, lead to what he described as “post-sex regret.” People commonly complained of things like seeing a partner “in the daylight” for the first time or feeling like they woke up to a “different person” after hooking up drunk.

Contrary to popular perception that smoking weed tends to make people lower their guard, the study revealed that it tends to drive people into their shells and clam up. They tend to be quieter and less social than normal, the research observed.

Women participants suggested the drunk men tended to be more dominating, which isn’t always a good thing. “When there’s drinking involved, guys seem to get more belligerent and crazy, and get this weird aggressive energy,” a 31-year-old female participant said.

The survey also revealed that men found it more difficult to get hard, and some women confessed that weed made it difficult for them to get “naturally lubricated.” Some even said they just couldn’t quite get to a climax when they were high, simply because it was too hard to focus.