Chaps, listen. I’ve been to the bottom of the bottle and back to the top. The booze, it can make you feel like the man about town, but it can also make you a real sod, an impotent let-down, a disappointment, and it can ruin your sex life.
Mood
Alcohol affects your mood. It’s very easy to do something silly. You may not even remember if you used protection or not. If you’re worried that you’ve put your sexual health at risk as a result of taking drugs or drinking, getting tested for an STI will help sort you right out. It may well be that you’re worrying about nothing, but then your mind will be put at ease.
Alcohol also has a huge impact on you, emotionally. Drink excessively and you can become an insensitive sham of a man, deprived of empathy and emotion. Inevitably, this can have a negative effect on your relationships, which of course goes hand in hand with your sex life.
The Physical Toll
Not only do booze (and other drugs, too) have the ability to affect your mood, but they can also have a negative impact on your sex life, physically.
Drinking too much over a long period of time and you might not be able to get chap up and working.
Studies show that long-lasting alcohol consumption can prevent testosterone production in the testes. Testosterone requires NAD+/NADH (a chemical which naturally reduces as we age). The metabolism of booze decreases the ratio of these compounds. And as we may well know, testosterone is crucial for sexual arousal.
Intoxication can decrease sexual arousal, decrease pleasurability and intensity of orgasm, and give you trouble achieving orgasm.
Drinking in excess can also lead to reduced sperm count, making it harder for you and the Mrs to have a baby when it comes to it.
It sounds like rubbish, but I’m not kidding, excessive drinking over prolonged periods can shrink your genitals.
Serious about cutting down?
If you’re serious about not letting alcohol get between you and your chap, then it’s probably time to have a look at yourself and cut down on the booze. You’ll feel all the better for it. And if it’s pints you’re cutting down on, you’ll lose your gut too. Try to actually stick within the recommended guidelines and keep to 14 units a week. It’s baffling how many people pay absolutely no attention to the recommended alcohol units. It’s easy to forget that if you have 3 pints in one day, then that’s half of the recommended weekly amount.
Don’t piss it all up the wall, chaps.