Men who drink have better sex!
Rather than damaging a man?s sexual performance, a good, stiff drink actually improves a man?s sexual prowess in the bedroom. Australian researchers found that men who drink report as many as 30 percent fewer problems than those who didn?t drink at all.
Dr. Kew-Kim Chew, of Western Australia?s Keogh Institute for Medical Research told London?s Sunday Telegraph that men who drank within safe, moderate guidelines seemed to have the best erectile function. In Chew?s study of 1,580 Australian men, even binge drinkers functioned better sexually than those who never drank.
?We found that, compared to those who have never touched alcohol, many people do benefit from some alcohol, including some people who drink outside the guidelines,? Chew said.
The study found that low risk drinkers – those who consumed up to twenty drinks a week spread over five days – had the fewest sexual problems. Those who drank on weekends only and those who were binge drinkers suffered lower rates of erectile dysfunction than those who drank only one day a week or drank none at all. Men who performed the poorest were heavy drinkers who had stopped drinking and those who smoked or had heart disease.
Newsmax.com HealthAlert Feb.3,2009
I feel it is very important for readers to be aware that this study is completely qualitative, researchers apparently used self report measures to assess sexual performance or satiety, rather than administering specified amounts of alcohol along certain groups in comparison to a placebo group. For one, self report measures completed by men, on their own sexual performance, should not be regarded as 100% valid data. Secondly, a study that truly evaluates the influence of alcohol on sexual performance would measure, for example, erectile quality with a standardized system-there is simply too much room for error as a result of how this study has been designed. Furthermore, the language of this study’s conclusions, based on the writings of this article’s author, appear odd. The following are my points to support my previous statement:
1-Since when does 20 drinks a week, every week, qualify someone as low risk? Outside of liver damage, 4 drinks a day, depending on what kind of drinks, can add some significant calories to one’s diet. And being overweight certainly does not help with sexual health and erectile quality.
2-Those who drank one day a week or not at all experience more frequent sexual problems than those who drink on weekends only or are binge drinkers? How much drinking are the weekend drinkser doing? And how do you lump weekend drinkers with binge drinkers in the same category?
3-”Men who performed the poorest were heavy drinkers who had stopped drinking and those who smoked or had heart disease. Thank god you didn’t write that smoking and heart disease are great for an erection, but it would have been better if it was noted that erections are the last thing the body is going to want to achieve while going through withdrawal, rather than implying that those who have stopped drinking, haven’t started, or don’t drink enough, are more likely to experience difficulties.
As for those frequent drinkers who reported less ddifficulties than those who drink infrequently, maybe they are more social, comfortable, date more frequently, and experience less anxiety? Not because of alcohol, but maybe because of their extroverted personality.
And as for those who drink infrequently and reported experience more difficulties, maybe they are providing more genuine information in their reports? Or maybe their being more truthful with themselves, or have higher expectations for their sexual relationships? If they date less often their drinking counterparts, maybe they are the type who wants quality, not quantity?
The bottom line is that improvements in erectile quality and sexual performance are not associated with alcohol consumption. Overall well being and health is, and this contitutes healthy eating, exercise, and moderation. Yes, wine and beer both have their health benefits, but any high volume or use defeats the purpose.
You should take issue with the researchers. If the study only used a low number of subjects I would agree with your bottom line. however when a study includes 1580 subjects with extensive questionaires it does show an association. The vast majority of well known studies having to do with consumtion of food or drink use questionaires. It’s the onlt way researcers can effectively illuminate associations between types of foods or drink and health benefits and risks. This is an accepted format in the scientific community.
Your points and bottomline conclusions are elementary and illuminate your idiocy.
Idiocy?
True, the vast majority of studies assessing nutrition and health utilize self report measures. And true, the power of a high number of subjects does increase the validity of data. However, this does not imply that the data from these studies are valid, or…effective in illuminating information like my comment illuminates my idiocy. Qualitative studies are faster and cheaper to conduct than their quantitative counterparts, it is as simple as that. I’d like to see a pharmaceutical company utilize only questionnaires to assess the efficacy of a new high blood pressure medication…..I wonder if the FDA would approve it?
Questionnaires are second best to experimental studies, you’re jumping the gun when you say that questionnaires are widely accepted by the scientific community. The ‘scientifice community’ is so expansive that one should not make generalizations with regards to it.
The tobacco industry continues to reference their own research to deny the relationship between smoking and lung cancer. What does common sense say though? Smoking contributes to lung cancer. Data can be manipulated.
The first two lines of the following link support what I just wrote, feel free to notice that the author is a PhD, so more than likely this article is not ‘elementary’:
http://www.publichealthreports.org/userfiles/120_2/120200.pdf
Look up penile plethysmography, it measures penile tumescence in response to stimuli. So in regards to this article, the researchers could have grouped subjects by drinking consumption in a long term study, measured their subjects arousal with an assessment instrument like the PPG on numerous occasions over time, and ran a comparison analysis of each group’s arousal. That is an example of how this study could have been performed experimentally.
Please read this article by Archie Brodsky of Harvard Medical, he references numerous qualitative and experimental studies of the positive affects of alcohol. Improved sexual performance is not mentioned once. However, like I said in my previous comment, the potential mood enhancement, feelings of greater sociability, reduced stress, etc., may certainly contribute to higher performance in bed, especially in comparison to those individuals who experience performance anxiety.
http://www.peele.net/lib/benefits.html
I’m bothering to write another comment because any number of men view this site, and have viewed this article. Some people take what they read, especially if they do not completely understand it, and accept it as gold. Considering the high incidence of alcoholism in this country, the severe addictive quality of excessive alcohol consumption, and the potential lethality of withdrawal for severe alcoholics, one has a responsibility to present information from all possible sides, and with any necessary disclaimers. I’m doing it for you.
Unless you feel the need to further protect your legitimacy, which I am not attacking, only the article as it was written, don’t bother replying.
I don’t know what you guys are talking about. I drink, and clearly I have better sex than all of you. That’s at least anecdotal evidence for some correlation between drinking and having better sex.