Beer and Sex – turning your soldier into a softy

We’ve all grown up with Beer as a symbol of masculinity. Beer and Sex go hand in hand with advertisers promising us young hot women, great friends and good times. Unfortunately, those times aren’t always (or ever) the case and  beer can affect sex and our manly bodies in bad ways – even if those hot 20-somethings in bikinis miraculously show up after you pop open a cold one.
*Beer, is one of the oldest beverages humans have produced, dating back to at least the fifth millennium BC.

Beer and Sex don’t play well together.

• Too much alcohol has shown to limit the blood flow to our little soldier and make it hard for him to stand fully at attention. This leads to less than awesome sex at best.  At worst you’re apologizing to the girl you spent all that time trying to get into bed in the first place – after having a pep-talk and eventually cursing your limp friend.
• It affects our sex hormones and body’s sexual attractiveness in a very bad way (Unless you find that one lucky lady who loves a big belly and man boobs). The ingredients of beer are water, malt and hops – seems like a simple and innocent recipe. However, hops contain, phytoestrogens, that effect a man’s body similarly to female sex hormones. Phytoestrogens from the hops suppress testosterone. 
As a result, sex drive takes a nose dive.
• The Hormonal shift takes that hard manly body you had in your 20’s and starts to make it look more like a woman’s body. Muscle mass goes down, and fat layers appear in areas mostly reserved for women – on the thighs, butt, lower belly and waist. The beer belly comes from more than just the calories in the beer and that order of wings you got because the bikini clad models didn’t magically appear and invite you to a hot tub party in the Rocky Mountains. Cellulite or as we call it “Hail Damage” is often seen (men with normal testosterone levels cannot develop it, they have a different structure of fat cells) and gynecomastia – the dreaded Moobs (breasts increase and become flabby).

Of course, a bottle of beer a couple times a week won’t do any harm. But, how many of us men will only have a couple? After all Beer and Sex are both a part of our lives.  Especially while we’re still waiting for the beautiful women, waterskiing bears and an unbelievable party to erupt.  It still hasn’t happened to me.  But, then again I’m sitting in a bar or on the couch drinking beer….  Hmmmmm