In the paper they published in The Journal of Social Psychology in April, they describe the details of their “field study,” which involved first finding 83 participants and asking them how many drinks they’d had that night and their sexual orientation. To study this, the researchers went straight to the action, heading to a bar-filled neighborhood in an unnamed midwestern American town to recruit drinkers stumbling around outside between 10 p.m. Their study isn’t definitive, but it does ask us to reconsider the nature of drunken horniness. Recently, scientists conducted a small study that suggested that heterosexual people became more curious about gay sex as they got drunker.
But to whom all that sexual energy will be directed toward isn’t always clear.
On any given night in any given bar, at least one thing is certain: Drunk people will be horny.