ArticleArchives of sexual behavior2014
Sexual victimization, alcohol intoxication, sexual-emotional responding, and sexual risk in heavy episodic drinking women.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 52 citations in OpenAlex.
- Does being drunk or high cause HIV sexual risk behavior? A systematic review of drug administration studies.Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior · 2018Pooled it
- Attentional Bias for Sexual Threat Among Sexual Victimization Survivors: A Meta-Analytic Review.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2017Pooled it
- Alcohol Use Predicts Sexual Decision-Making: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Experimental Literature.AIDS and behavior · 2016Pooled it
- Causal Effects of Alcohol Consumption on Condom Negotiation Skills of Women with Varying Sexual Assault Histories.AIDS and behavior · 2025Trial
- Unprotected Sex and Its Association with Other Risky Behaviours Among European Students: A Multinational Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Alcohol, Sexual Arousal, and Partner Familiarity as Predictors of Condom Negotiation: An Experience Sampling Study.AIDS and behavior · 2024Article
- An event-level evaluation of women's self-medicated drinking: The role of sexual assault severity, affect, and drinking motives.Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy · 2023Article
- How Alcohol Influences Mechanisms of Sexual Risk Behavior Change: Contributions of Alcohol Challenge Research to the Development of HIV Prevention Interventions.AIDS and behavior · 2021Review
- The Role of Alcohol-Related Behavioral Risk in the Design of HIV Prevention Interventions in the Era of Antiretrovirals: Alcohol Challenge Studies and Research Agenda.AIDS and behavior · 2021Article
- Can cognitive bias modification simultaneously target two behaviors? Approach bias retraining for alcohol and condom use.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2019Article
- Reducing sexual risk behaviors: secondary analyses from a randomized controlled trial of a brief web-based alcohol intervention for underage, heavy episodic drinking college women.Addiction research & theory · 2017Article
- From Sexual Assault to Sexual Risk: A Relational Pathway?Journal of interpersonal violence · 2016Article
- Sexual Assault Disclosure and Sexual Functioning: The Role of Trauma Symptomatology.The journal of sexual medicine · 2016Article
- In-The-Moment Dissociation, Emotional Numbing, and Sexual Risk: The Influence of Sexual Trauma History, Trauma Symptoms, and Alcohol Intoxication.Psychology of violence · 2016Article
- Alcohol Increases Delay and Probability Discounting of Condom-Protected Sex: A Novel Vector for Alcohol-Related HIV Transmission.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2016Article
- Men's Intentions to Have Sex With a New Partner: Sexual and Emotional Responding, Alcohol, and Condoms.Journal of sex & marital therapy · 2016Article
- Partner Pressure, Victimization History, and Alcohol: Women's Condom-Decision Abdication Mediated by Mood and Anticipated Negative Partner Reaction.AIDS and behavior · 2016Article
- Childhood Maltreatment and Sexual Risk Taking: The Mediating Role of Alexithymia.Archives of sexual behavior · 2016Article
- A person-centered approach to examining heterogeneity and subgroups among survivors of sexual assault.Journal of abnormal psychology · 2015Article
- Influences of acute alcohol consumption, sexual precedence, and relationship motivation on women's relationship and sex appraisals and unprotected sex intentions.Journal of social and personal relationships · 2015Article
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Abstract
This study used an experimental paradigm to investigate the roles of sexual victimization history and alcohol intoxication in young women's sexual-emotional responding and sexual risk taking. A nonclinical community sample of 436 young women, with both an instance of heavy episodic drinking and some HIV/STI risk exposure in the past year, completed childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and adolescent/adult sexual assault (ASA) measures. A majority of them reported CSA and/or ASA, including rape and attempted rape. After random assignment to a high alcohol dose (.10 %) or control condition, participants read and projected themselves into an eroticized scenario of a sexual encounter involving a new partner. As the story protagonist, each participant rated her positive mood and her sexual arousal, sensation, and desire, and then indicated her likelihood of engaging in unprotected sex. Structural equation modeling analyses revealed that ASA and alcohol were directly associated with heightened risk taking, and alcohol's effects were partially mediated by positive mood and sexual desire. ASA was associated with attenuated sexual-emotional responding and resulted in diminished risk taking via this suppression. These are the first findings indicating that, compared to non-victimized counterparts, sexually victimized women respond differently in alcohol-involved sexual encounters in terms of sexual-emotional responding and risk-taking intentions. Implications include assessing victimization history and drinking among women seeking treatment for either concern, particularly women at risk for HIV, and alerting them to ways their histories and behavior may combine to exacerbate their sexual risks.
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