#drinking culture

It’s always nice when I pour myself a beer and taste it, and realize that I really do like beer. I genuinely enjoy it.

I tend to worry that maybe I like beer or want to brew because of some weird trick of the mind, like I’m trying to defy some social or gender thing, but that isn’t actually the case. I really enjoy beer as a beverage.

I feel like it’s easy to doubt myself about beer for a lot of reasons – it’s bitter and I normally like sweet; it’s a very “masculine” beverage and I’m a girl; and even when guys drink beer, lots of people tend to favor less flavorful beers, and only drink for the alcohol or the custom of it.

But when I pour a beer, all alone, and I can enjoy its color and its smell, and its flavor, I remember that I really do like beer, and I stop worrying. I like beer, and it has nothing to do with being a girl or anything else. I just think beer is nice. I like that.

Women drink. 60% of all U.S. women, and over 75% of women on Glow, to be precise. Drinking is fun. Sex is too! Sometimes they combine to make a great cocktail, but other times, not so much. What’s the best recipe to combine the two?

Sex and drinking have been in the news a lot recently — and haters and lamer sections of society love nothing more than blaming women when sex and drinking go south. Women are told that any dicey sexual encounter that happens under the influence is “our fault,” that dressing more conservatively and not staying out late will help keep us safe.

None of that BS is true. Alcohol may sometimes be a factor in sexual assault cases; it is never the “cause” — and it is never, ever a woman’s fault when she is sexually assaulted, no matter her BAC.

We’re committed to changing the conversation around alcohol and sex. So we took a deep dive into our Glow data to investigate. This is what we learned.