New Health Models Q&A Men’s Health

Why does alcohol cause promiscuity?

Asked by:Deirdre

Asked on:Mar 24, 2026 10:19 AM

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  • Lillian Lillian

    Mar 24, 2026

      As the saying goes, "Drinking can mess up sex." However, people's understanding of this sentence is often superficial, even specious.

      Some people habitually associate the words "wine" and "sex" together, believing that wine can "disorder sex" and "indulge in sex." It means that alcohol can arouse the sexual desires of men and women in the human body, thus increasing the interest and pleasure in sexual activities. Others believe that when drunk, the "sexual police boundary" between men and women is disrupted, thereby breaking through one's own or the other party's "sexual defense line" and creating a physical and psychological atmosphere for the relationship between the sexes. In fact, from a physiological point of view, "alcohol can mess up sex" does not refer to the "indulgence" effect of alcohol, but to the fact that alcoholism can lead to sexual dysfunction or even sexual dysfunction. sexual dysfunction

      After alcohol enters the human body, it has corresponding physiological effects on various organ systems. When there is 20-50 mg of alcohol per 100 ml of blood in the body, a short-term general excitement will occur, manifesting as high spirits, euphoria and talkativeness. Pan-excitement means that all organ systems of the body are in a certain state of excitement, including the emergence of sexual consciousness and excitement of sexual organs. However, this effect is only short-lived during the entire drinking process, because the general excitement cannot last long, and what follows is a deeper and more sustained process of inhibition. Of course, the effect on sexual activities also obviously turns to inhibition, especially regular alcoholism, which will inevitably cause cumulative harm and inhibition to the structure and function of the sexual reproductive organs. If it is said that "alcohol can mess up sex", then it is extremely accurate to understand it from the perspective of harm and inhibition.

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