Ambiguous Encounters: Young Women’s Expectations and Experiences with Intoxicated Sexual Relations in Danish Nightlife

This article is based on 28 in-depth interviews with young women (18–25) about their experiences intoxicated sexual encounters in Danish nightlife. Little research has examined the role intoxication plays processes of consensual and non-consensual sex. Using theories scripts, this focuses how alcohol used perceived by these as a potential way modifying behaviours norms encounters; they characterize consent navigate behaviour that can result inappropriate, transgressive or victimizing situations. While talk pleasurable regrettable experiences, many described situations took much more ambiguous, fluid nuanced role. The study points to lack knowledge ambiguity may play an active managing settings, especially for youngest age groups.