This paper deals with interactional changes which occur when alcohol intoxication is sought as part of a sexual scenario. It focuses on the “situation of company” that occurs in relation to “sexual drinking” i.e. drinking for a sexual motive, and how such a situation can equivocate interaction and thereby distort the principles of time, dose, and effect. When such distortion occurs without the full knowledge of the participants, sexual anomie also occurs. In this regard, alcohol can be viewed as a sexual talisman rather than a sexual aphrodisiac.
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