A question I've been asking for a while

....is asked by columnist Mona Charen, who asks the obvious question; if women really like "hooking up" and "one night stands" (or is that too romantic in today's age?), why are they so consistently getting drunk or stoned before proceeding?

Along the same lines, a former colleague of mine who worked for a while in a strip club noted that the "performers" tended to use an awful lot of cocaine before going on stage. 

Yes, candy is dandy, and liquor is quicker, but I would hope that we would all agree, no matter what our political, religious, or other persuasion, that if sex requires intoxication, it isn't romance.