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Binge drinking in women leads to greater risk in STDs E-mail
by William Atkins   
Wednesday, 10 September 2008


The article “Binge drinking women often engage in risky sex,” which appears on the website of News-Medical.Net, states, ”Dr. Hutton says that both binge drinking and risky sexual behaviors are more hazardous to women than men and when women and men consume the same amount of alcohol, women will have a higher concentration of alcohol in their system, and substantially greater alcohol-caused impairment than men.”

The article continues, “Also anatomical differences mean women are at a greater risk than men of contracting some sexually transmitted infections - men transmit some infections to women more efficiently than women do to men - men are eight to 10 times more likely to transmit HIV [human immunodeficiency virus] to a female partner through repeated, unprotected sexual intercourse than women are to transmit the virus to men.”

It concludes by saying, “The researchers say the gender-specific association between binge drinking and risky behaviors shown in the study calls for more research and they suggest that STD clinics routinely screen for binge drinking.”

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