Teacher Info Sheet 1: Alcohol and Sexual Health Quiz
1)
If you drink alcohol, your judgement about people and situations will be altered.
2)
If you just stick to cider or beer and avoid spirits, you won’t feel drunk.
3)
Having something to eat before you start drinking will slow down the effect of alcohol.
4)
Bubbly alcoholic drinks will affect you more quickly.
5)
It takes your body 30 minutes to process and make neutral the affects of one unit of
alcohol.
6)
Getting some fresh air sobers you up.
7)
If you are light, alcohol will affect you more than if you are heavy.
8)
Alcohol can contribute to the spread of sexually transmitted diseases like
HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C and Chlamydia.
9)
Drinking can affect the size and look of your genitals.
10)
If you are drunk when you have sex you are less likely to get pregnant.
11)
Drinking alcohol can make you infertile.
12)
It's better to have one big night out drinking than have a drink every night.
13)
The Contraceptive pill protects against STIs.
14)
Great Britain has the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Western Europe, twice as
high as Germany
15)
Being a teenage parent often results in poor health for the mother and the child
as well as a poor standard of living
16)
Most people don’t regret having sex the first time.
17)
One third of young people who have sex the first time had been drinking
18)
For people who have sex, alcohol makes unprotected sex three times more likely
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Teachers’ notes and ‘Sex and alcohol – What do you know?’ answers.
1) True. It is important that young people recognise that alcohol does alter brain
functions and therefore their judgements.
2) False. The strength of an alcoholic drink is measured either in units of alcohol (where
this is a measured amount, i.e. pub measure of 25ml or bottle or can) or the percentage
alcohol by volume. Some cans of strong beer or cider can be up to 9% alcohol by volume
or 4.5 units of alcohol. Feelings of being intoxicated are directly related to the quantity of
alcohol units consumed: the more you drink, the more you will be affected by alcohol.
3) True. Eating something before you start drinking can slow down the rate at which
alcohol is absorbed into the system.
4) True. Fizzy alcoholic drinks can get into your bloodstream faster.
5) False. It takes the liver an hour to get rid of one unit of alcohol. However, before the
liver can begin to detoxify, it needs about 20 minutes to activate the necessary processes.
The length of time, therefore, is 80 minutes. Drinking quickly can overload your body with
alcohol and can make you very ill.
6) False. Fresh air or a cold shower may make you feel better, but they will not speed up
the exit of alcohol or its affects from your body.
7) True. Smaller lighter people are more affected because the alcohol is concentrated
into smaller bodies.
8) True alcohol lowers our inhibitions. This means we could take more risks in our
behaviour, including having sex when we might otherwise not. When we do, having
consumed alcohol means we might not think about using a condom. A recent survey
commissioned by the Scottish Executive found that 17% of 15-year-old girls and 12% of
15-year-old boys surveyed, reported having had unprotected sex during the last year as
a result of drinking alcohol.
9) True In both men and women, excessive drinking over prolonged periods can shrink
external genitals!
10) False. Drunken sex is more likely to lead to unplanned pregnancies, for all the same
reasons as it puts us at higher risk of catching sexually transmitted diseases (see above).
11) True. Drinking alcohol lowers sperm counts in men and makes it more difficult for
women to get pregnant. Even young women who drink heavily can find that their periods
stop altogether.
12) False. It's more dangerous to binge drink (drinking a large amount in a short period
of time) than to drink small amounts regularly. That's worrying when you think that 1 in
every 6 drinking occasions for men and 3 in every 10 for women are binges.
13) False. The contraceptive pill does NOT protect against STIs.
14) True. It is six times higher than the Netherlands.
15) True. Studies show that poorer health, social, and economic outcomes are more
likely for teenage parents.
16) False. Of those [surveyed] who had sexual intercourse, nearly half later regretted it,
and nearly half of these had been drinking beforehand
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17)
True.
18)
True.
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