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College-going boys derive great pleasure from painting the town red and making way to bars for boozing but surprisingly a study found that it has a connection with sexual relationships with their partners.

According to the findings, published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, boys who like to party or consume alcoholic drinks in bars exceedingly are more likely to be sexually aggressive.

"We found that it wasn't alcohol use, per se, that leads to sexual aggression," said Michael Cleveland, Associate Professor at Washington State University.

"But the combination of alcohol and the setting that the drinking takes place in had a major impact on the number of reported aggressive tactics used," Cleveland added. A group of over 1,000 college males participated in a survey for the research. The survey was conducted by email or online.

"We asked them how often they drank and if and how often they went to bars or parties," Cleveland said."Then we asked if they used any specific tactics to convince, or even pressure, women to have sex with them," he added.

The tactics ranged from threatening to break up with her to getting her intoxicated and hurting her physically.

The findings further showed that more the male students reported drinking as freshmen, the more likely they were to commit a sexually aggressive act.

The study also found that the men who went to parties and bars more oftentimes tended to have higher levels of impersonal sexual orientation, characterized by a preference for sex with the lack of commitment and a greater number of sexual partners.

By Sowmya Sangam