Alcohol use predicts: likelihood of hooking up, frequency of hooking up and total number of hook-up partners.
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The amount of alcohol consumed also seems to show a linear relationship with hook-up behaviors.
More frequent and heavier drinkers are more likely to have hook-ups.
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About 60-75% of all hook-ups involve alcohol.
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This is a very good review of the research on drinking and hooking up. I would recommend reading it in full.
An important point is that most of this data is from before dating apps and the era of being chronically online. Between 1995 and 2015 or so.
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The social environment has shifted from the house party, bar, and club to the Internet.
There is less social pressure to drink.
Fewer opportunities to make drunken bad decisions about sexual behavior.
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Many young men will never experience the kind of house party that they see in movies from the '80s and '90s.
College dorms and fraternities heavily cracked down on substance abuse, following numerous assault controversies related to alcohol over the past decades.
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In this paper, we see that online dating is actually associated with a lower likelihood of alcohol use preceeding hook-ups.
Online dating may have helped remove alcohol from the picture.
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People who are extremely motivated by sex itself can still find it through apps.
However, those who would rather wait for relationships not may not find themselves drunk on a date and making decisions that they would not have had made while sober.
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Similarly, young men who would use getting drunk as a dating strategy may have less opportunity than in the past to take advantage of drunk women.
And they may be less willing, as it is treated as a crime more often now.
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This is all basically a good thing.
And it is not taken into account very much in the discussion of the mating crisis.
Basically, that what we are seeing with fewer young people having sex is actually fewer young people making bad decisions.
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as a single data point i often used alcohol *so that i could* have the bravery to have sex with ppl i wanted. while sloppy, i wouldn't consider all my drunken hookups to be bad decisions.
Alcohol is a tool women use to obfuscate their responsibility, "it just happened, I was drunk".
If you're on a date and she isn't drinking alcohol, you're not having sex tonight, 100%. Likewise, if as a man you refuse to drink, you tacitly refuse the pact and you won't have sex.
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