Sex should be a fun and pleasurable experience, but drinking excessively or taking drugs can have a big impact on your behaviour and judgement. Different drugs or strengths of alcohol can also have varying effects on your body and emotions. As well as making you sick or unwell, you are more likely to:
- forget to use a condom or female condom
- not realise if someone is wearing a condom or if it breaks or slips off
- not remember having sex/have unprotected sex
- have sexual activity that hurts you (you may be less sensitive to pain when drunk or high)
- be unaware of someone spiking your drink
- have sex with someone you wouldn’t usually choose to be with
- have problems with your sexual performance, for example erection or ejaculation difficulties
- inject drugs with a used needle, risking HIV infection and other blood-borne viruses.1
You should speak to a sexual health professional as soon as possible if you're worried that you have put yourself at risk. You may not have any symptoms of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), but this doesn’t mean you haven’t been infected.
- See more at: http://www.avert.org/sex-stis/safer-sex-hiv/alcohol-drugs#sthash.NUChFxcF.dpuf
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