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According to the temperance scolds over at the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, you are a binge drinker if you consume more than five alcoholic beverages during one occasion. We always thought that just means you're a New Yorker, but apparently drinkers nationwide go on crazy, multi-drink "binges" just as much as we do here. A study released today finds that 15% of New Yorkers cop to "binging" at least once a month, compared to 16% nationwide.
The report combined local survey responses with data obtained from interviews with men in gay bars and other venues. And surprise surprise, gay binge drinkers were found to be the most promiscuous; that demographic is twice as likely to have five or more sex partners as non-drinkers. Both drinkers and non-drinkers reported high rates of sex without a condom, which is bad idea jeans given the rise of syphilis among young gay men.
And then there are those boozing, fornicating teenagers. 35% of public high school students reported drinking alcohol, 14% reported binge drinking in the past month, and 17% (one in six youth) reported having four or more sex partners in their lifetime. And those who drank alcohol in the past 30 days were more than twice as likely to have had multiple sex partners as those who did not drink (27% vs. 11%).
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I'm way to drunk to undertand that graph.
yeah. and im too tired from having unprotected anal sex to read the graph...
...unless you're in a long-term relationship, in which case, all of the above is just an unattainable dream.
That chart is a freakin nightmare to figure out. Multiple partners what - a week, a month, a year, at the same time bukkake-style? And if those are percentage numbers put a % sign next to them.
All to come to the conclusion that alcohol encourages inhibition, which in turn encourages promiscuity. In other news, glue is sticky.
2-4 partners in the last year is a lot?
1) i drink... why am i not having the sex?
2) man, i really was a very boring teenager
Is there also a study relating booze to doing stupid shit?
"Multiple partners what - a week, a month, a year"
As the linked article says, in the past year.
The per cent sign, btw, is in y-axis label where it belongs.
As the linked article says, in the past year.
Then it should be in the chart as "Annual" or "per year."
Of course part of the problem is that the chart was developed to accompany one piece of text but is displayed on this page out of that context.
This doesn't account for the probability that the complete non-drinkers are probably extremely conservative in general and therefore, the non-drinking doesn't causally make them more responsible.
Water helps dehydrate the skin, contributing to faster sunburn. People who go to the beach are more likely to get in the water. Therefore, going to the beach frequently makes it likely that a person will get a sunburn?
How about relating booze to running across multilane highways in the middle of the night?
And seriously, what the hell is with that chart? If 5 percent of non-drinkers have 2-4 sex partners and 2 percent have 5 or more sex partners, does that mean the other 93 percent are monogomous or virgins????
um, water hydrates the skin.
Sorry, I meant "saltwater" which is usually found at the beach unless one lives in the Midwest where large lakefronts are also called beaches.
This is a truly groundbreaking study!
I feel so enlightened!
When people let loose, they let loose and won't make arbitrary distinctions--no one says "tonight's a drinking night, so I'm not going to take advantage of any sexual opportunity that comes my way." Sure, drinking impairs judgment, which can lead to bad decision-making regarding sex, but for the most part, I would submit that the relationship between drinking and sex is more correlative than causal.
The DOH really muddled their argument here by bringing promiscuity into the equation. This would be much more powerful if it simply studied the relationship between drinking and STD transmission.
There's an important wrinkle that I didn't make explicit. Promiscuity seems like a good predictor of STD transmission rates, but without data, there's no way to know definitively.
This relationship is alluded to in Frieden's comment in the linked press release, but there's nothing backing it up in the PDF report.
The final sentence in that linked release may be my favorite statement ever published by a city agency.
"Alcohol Use and Risky Sex in New York City is available online here."
Did we really need a study to confirm this?
We do! Judging from this study, the amount I drink directly correlates to the amount of ass I will receive.
The more I drink the more ass I will tap, and vice versa. Unfortunately the study lacks details on the quality of the ass that will be available, but one can theorize that the quality decreases along with the increase in quantity.
Really people are expecting too much from this. This isn't some health study published in a journal and subject to peer review. It's simply propaganda, the purpose of which is the delivery of the content in the paragraph headed "Need help with a drinking problem?"
In other news, a study says water is wet, the sky is black at night, and politicians are greedy scumbags.
I'd shove this chart up the Department of Health and mental Hygiene's ass but I'm out of scotch.
I'd use lube,
but to each her own.
Just look for the Wooo! girls. If you use similar linear correlation amongst those who "Wooo!" and drink excessively, you will find the same link to sexual promiscuity.
Don't you read Barney's Blog?
http://www.cbs.com/primetime/how_i_met_your_mother/community/barney_blog/index.php [Nov 17th]
Well done, Department of Health. Welcome to three thousand years ago.
I only pass out from 2 drinks.
That chart is crap.
And I am so glad I moved to the west coast. Much higher scores!