Spring Break
Sober sex: something worth remembering
Rose Hansen
Issue date: 2/17/09 Section: Forum
I turned 21 last month, legally qualifying me to join the drinking ranks of college students around the country. Unless I climb behind the wheel of a car or behave outlandishly in public, I get to consume mass amounts of alcohol and stumble in and out of bars free from police penalties. But even though my geographic spectrum of places to get drunk has expanded, the same risks associated with drinking prevail: alcohol poisoning, becoming "that girl" on Facebook and unplanned sex.
For whatever reason, the appetite for booty rises with every beer. With decreasing inhibitions and standards, jokes become funnier, dance moves sexier and that person you've been grinding with at the Top-of-the-Cock (no pun intended)... well, in your blurry outlook, they get much, much more attractive.
It's the morning after that invites the devil to your door.
Legal or not, waking up with a pounding head, dry mouth and the taste of last night's beer at the back of your throat is never pleasant.
Waking up next to someone you didn't mean to have sex with - or don't remember having sex with - is worse. Hence, the all-too-common phrase: "Yeah, we made out/went home together/had sex. But I was drunk/wasted/blacked-out."
The statistics vary, but roughly 80 percent of college students regularly engage in recreational drinking. Nationally, 70 percent of student report being sexually active. Last week was Safer Sex Awareness Week and this upcoming weekend is Mardi Gras - the Holy Grail of binge drinking. Our two favorite activities, alcohol and sex, ought to be addressed.
But first, some unpleasant statistics. According the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, each year 97,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24 are victims of alcohol-related sexual assault or rape and over 100,000 reported being too drunk to remember whether or not they consented to having sex.
It's ridiculous that we have to keep chanting this mantra, but if someone is too drunk to consent to sex and you proceed to have sex with them, it's rape. If someone says no and you coerce them into having sex with you, you are raping them. Thus, you are a rapist, which makes you an asshole who deserves a permanent case of gonorrhea of the throat and genital warts. Enough said.
For whatever reason, the appetite for booty rises with every beer. With decreasing inhibitions and standards, jokes become funnier, dance moves sexier and that person you've been grinding with at the Top-of-the-Cock (no pun intended)... well, in your blurry outlook, they get much, much more attractive.
It's the morning after that invites the devil to your door.
Legal or not, waking up with a pounding head, dry mouth and the taste of last night's beer at the back of your throat is never pleasant.
Waking up next to someone you didn't mean to have sex with - or don't remember having sex with - is worse. Hence, the all-too-common phrase: "Yeah, we made out/went home together/had sex. But I was drunk/wasted/blacked-out."
The statistics vary, but roughly 80 percent of college students regularly engage in recreational drinking. Nationally, 70 percent of student report being sexually active. Last week was Safer Sex Awareness Week and this upcoming weekend is Mardi Gras - the Holy Grail of binge drinking. Our two favorite activities, alcohol and sex, ought to be addressed.
But first, some unpleasant statistics. According the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, each year 97,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24 are victims of alcohol-related sexual assault or rape and over 100,000 reported being too drunk to remember whether or not they consented to having sex.
It's ridiculous that we have to keep chanting this mantra, but if someone is too drunk to consent to sex and you proceed to have sex with them, it's rape. If someone says no and you coerce them into having sex with you, you are raping them. Thus, you are a rapist, which makes you an asshole who deserves a permanent case of gonorrhea of the throat and genital warts. Enough said.
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