Alcohol and Sex

[tabula-xrasa.livejournal.com]

Sorry if this isn't appropriate for this community. It's the only one I am a member of and trust for this sort of advice.

This is just something I've been curious about for a while.

If I drink (not necessarily to the point of drunkenness, but usually slightly past tipsy), I often find that my sex drive almost disappears. Is this common? It seems strange to me, and none of my friends have mentioned this as a problem for them.

It's not a problem for me, because it rarely works out quite right for the boy when we've been drinking anyhow, which is something that I knew of and expected in men.. but is it normal for women as well?

I was just wondering if anyone had any ideas what could cause it? I'm just sort of curious about the concept of a libido in general and why it can be such a finicky thing.

Comments

[voicesinherbody.livejournal.com]

Alcohol is a depressant, so it doesn't seem odd to me that it would nullify your sex drive.

[tabula-xrasa.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the concept makes sense to me as well, but when I asked friends about it, they seemed to think it was bizarre that I didn't immediately want to take my clothes off after I'd had a few drinks. I guess maybe it has to do with the fact that I am in a committed relationship, in which I do not need my inhibitions lowered to be comfortable being intimate with my boyfriend, whereas most of them only have experience mixing alcohol with one-night-stand type situations that they often need lowered inhibitions to feel comfortable about.

[voicesinherbody.livejournal.com]

That all makes sense to me.