Comments on: Alcohol, Sexual Attraction, Sexual Behavior, and Sexual Performance

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:47:27 +0000

Martin: Seems like a reasonable assumption.

By: Martin R

Martin R — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:05:49 +0000

So the idea is that male fruit flies are built with a bisexual urge that is selectively dampened towards males, and that when they get drunk this dampening is turned off?

By: JJ

JJ — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:23:22 +0000

This seems like something one could do relatively easily in humans with more meaningful results…@Eamon: If you watch the old black-and-white movie production of Macbeth, the old gatekeeper is raising and lowering the big key in his hand. You know, from kind of drooping down until its raised up horizontal…

By: Coturnix

Coturnix — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:31:15 +0000

Yup, the blurb in Nature about this paper also quotes Shakespeare…

By: Eamon Knight

Eamon Knight — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:32:52 +0000

Exposure to alcohol increased sexual arousal in relation to females, but reduced sexual performance,My favorite Shakespeare quote, on drink:

Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance. Therefore, much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him, and it mars him; it sets him on, and it takes him off; it persuades him, and dis-heartens him; makes him stand to, and not stand to; in conclusion, equivocates him in a sleep, and, giving him the lie, leaves him.

– Macbeth 2:3