Anyone who hangs around the bars understands there is a phenomenon that happens after a few or five cocktails that seems to make the world a more beautiful place than it really is. On beer one, the scene might appear more as if management turned a pack of drunken hyenas loose than a place where humans go to drink. It\u2019s like your favorite watering hole has all of a sudden started moonlighting as a shelter for weird-looking animals with beer bellies and speech impediments. But then somewhere around the third vodka and soda, something miraculous starts to happen. Wait, what\u2019s this? All of the beady-eyed varmints mingling around the room are starting to look just a bit more appealing than when you first walked in. You think to yourself for a moment: Perhaps the crowd changed when I wasn\u2019t looking. But, oh no, that\u2019s not it at all. The more likely scenario is that you\u2019re now riding the barstool with your booze goggles on.<\/p>\n
Interestingly enough, it\u2019s not just alcohol helping ugly people hook up. Our old pal marijuana has also been known to inspire its fair share of regretful encounters, which may or may not have started with the phrase, \u201cHey baby, what\u2019s shaking? Want to get high?\u201d Yep, we are fully aware that we could use a little help with our pick-up lines, no doubt. But here\u2019s the thing: With weed, there may not be a need for any smooth-talking when trying to pick up a partner for the night. It could be as easy as getting stoned and just allowing all of the annoying hang-ups we might have about a person slip away into a cloud of smoke. It\u2019s something that the pros are calling \u201cweed goggles,\u201d which is where the buzzed brain makes a person think their prospective love interest \u2014 one who might only have one tooth and reek of cheese \u2014 is totally doable.<\/p>\n
The problem with weed goggles is, just like when alcohol is involved, people can wake up the next morning and think, \u201cSweet Jesus, what in the hell did I do?\u201d Ah, yes, the hot sexual conquest has transformed into a ghastly beast that doesn\u2019t come anywhere close to passing standards. This realization is hard to swallow, too, and it can spawn the kind of loathsome regret that makes a person want to gnaw their arm off at the shoulder to make a daring escape. But there\u2019s always a chance \u2014\u00a0 always \u2014 that they\u2019ll get caught trying to bolt and have to make up a dumb excuse to avoid staying for breakfast. Admittedly, these \u201coh, crap\u201d moments are not as common in those sexual prowlers who consume marijuana as it is in those who like to get drunk.<\/p>\n
But there is undoubtedly a level of unsafe, questionable sex that often transpires because two people got high.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile alcohol reportedly led to riskier sexual behavior, both drugs appear to potentially increase risk for unsafe sex,\u201d concluded a\u00a0study<\/a>\u00a0published several years ago in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior.<\/p>\n What is most telling about this study is it suggests that the marvel of weed goggles may have more to do with marijuana being illegal in most places than anything else. Lead researcher Joseph J. Palamar, Ph.D. claims that people are more likely to hook up because of the situations they find themselves in when trying to get high. \u201cIf you\u2019re older than 21, you\u2019re able to drink anywhere you want. But when it comes to marijuana, at least in most of the U.S., it has to be in a hidden area where you can\u2019t get arrested,\u201d he\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0Inverse. \u201cIf you get someone to come home with you to smoke weed, there\u2019s a way to facilitate getting a sexual connection, for better or for worse.\u201d<\/p>\n Some of the latest research on the subject of sex and marijuana finds that people are just having more of it in states where it is legal. A\u00a0study<\/a>\u00a0published in the Journal of Health Economics shows daily marijuana users are having 20% more sex than their sober counterparts. But before you get too excited, you should also know that these people are also having more babies and contracting more sexually transmitted diseases. States with medical marijuana laws on the books saw a 2% increase in yearly births, the study shows, and most of these kids got brought into the world by unmarried parents. Presumably, this is because single people are getting high and jumping into the sack with strangers. It\u2019s this impaired judgment (weed goggles) that the study attributes to a temporary increase in gonorrhea. The idea is that people are just getting stoned, getting naked and getting it on without much consideration for contraceptives.<\/p>\n There is no denying that marijuana and sex go hand in hand. But it\u2019s not supernatural. Marijuana enhances the senses, lowers inhibitions and makes average, everyday gobbledygook just a little better. So, toss in some good music and a pizza with those affairs guided by the so-called weed goggles and that\u2019s just about as perfect a night as they come. It is worth mentioning, though, that there has been a spike in STDs nationwide over the past several years \u2013 some of which are incurable \u2013 so sexual stoners might need to start getting serious about using condoms. Because while the regret of sleeping with the unattractive can be hard to stomach, it has nothing on the despair of finding out that you\u2019re about to have an ugly baby with herpes.<\/p>\n TELL US<\/strong>, does cannabis play a role in your sex life? <\/p>\n The post Weed Goggles: Marijuana Can Increase Hookups<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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