Spotted recently – scientists are gathering evidence that sexual frustration drives males to drink. To be honest, this is nothing new – just drop in to any bar or pub and one can gather a lot of evidence of heart-broken guys drowning pint after pint of the stuff.
Male Fruit flies - sex and alcohol don't mix
The latest issue of the journal Science not only provides further evidence of the same, it even tells why sexually-frustrated males(flies, that is) are driven to drink. And the publication even suggests that male humans might behave in the same manner!
The answer lies in a brain chemical – neuropeptide F – which was found higher in male fruit flies who had mated than comrades who didn’t have sex. Those who didn’t get it preferred foods that had a high content of alcohol.
Neuropeptide Y - depleted amounts in the brain are believed to drive one to drink alcohol
Human brains have a similar chemical (neuropeptide y) which may react in a similar way, according to scientists. Work is ongoing to prove this hypothesis. Assuming this is proven true, the next thing scientists will have to prove is: what do teetotallers do?
Hi Doc
Some males are addicted to alcohol cos their father is also a drinker.
Like father like son.NauzubiLLaH.
Doctor2008: Alcoholism is due to many factors, one of them being hereditary.