Women, Cocktails and Sex

"Which sex is worse when drunk?" wonders the reader who calls himself  (thanks to his vocab prowess).
 Well, according to the BBC, drunk women have far worse hangovers than men. In fact drinking is worse for the female brain, does nothing positive for our butts and makes us more likely to have sex with men we might not even talk to, if it weren't for the damned booze.
 
By reckoning, there's hardly a couple who engages in first-time sex with either party being entirely stone-cold sober.
Isn't the act of sharing an over-priced cocktail half the fun? (Not to mention a remarkable cure for those about-to-have-sex-for-the-first-time-together jitters.)
Of course it's a whole different ballgame when either one of you become off-your-face, blind drunk. And It's the drunken femmes who should be wary of their reputations.

"Drunk women are looked upon more harshly than are drunk men," Why? "Because femininity - as a construct - relies on, is defined by, inhibition. What is natural - sexual appetite, anger, body hair - is deemed unfeminine. Being drunk is worse: it's a brazen refusal to be quiet, well-behaved and ladylike."
The morning-after brings with it no charming female vision either.

We women suffer far worse hangovers than the blokes, with the medical theory claiming that we don't have as much water in our bodies to dilute the booze as they do. (Now there's a reason to hang up your shot glass a little earlier than the man you're trying to impress.)

But back to the pub, and the question on many a reader's lips: Which sex is a worse drunk?
Drunken women wreak all sorts of havoc: "Forty one per cent of women have one-night stands with men when they're drunk ... 25 per cent of those surveyed double their alcohol intake on holiday ... 48 per cent actually set out 'to get hammered' once a week and 5 per cent ... 'have snogged another girl'." Yikes.
But the blokes can be just as bad.

Men have the potential to look and act worse than the chicks in individual circumstances. 

"For example, the guy I saw a couple of weeks ago lying unconscious on the sidewalk next to his own turd (yes, you read that correctly) with his pants around his ankles wasn't looking 'crash hot' in my opinion," he writes.

"I've seen some tremendously ferocious cat-fights in my time, but I think men tend to try and exert their dominance and aggression more often.

"I'd rather have a girl give me 'mixed-signals' and end up wasting money on buying her drinks than have a guy get all 'alpha-male' on me and glass me in the back of the head, I'll put it that way."

As for drunken hookups? We all know that drinking impairs our judgement, flops erections and thwarts women's ability to achieve orgasm.

So why do we drink (aside from alcoholism, which is a whole other topic)? If it's to release inhibitions, a little red wine won't go astray. Heck, cardiologists even reckon it's good for the heart.

Just make sure you don't end up blaming undesirable behaviour on the bottle ...