Can you imagine a romantic night without a bottle of champagne or a glass of red wine that will relax you?

A nice conversation, delicious food, and a drink of your favorite alcohol are a must-have on your date night. First, you eat, drink, and cuddle; afterward, it’s time for some love.

If you think alcohol before making love is bad, then you’re probably right. However, that counts for large amounts of alcohol, like 4-5 glasses or more. This amount of drinks can only make you drunk, not horny.

The reasonable amount that will spice up your sex life and increase your libido is about 1-2 glasses of red wine, champagne, or your favorite liquor.

Everything beyond will mess up your sexual performance. So, let’s see what drinks can make you hornier and ready for love.

Top 15 Alcohol That Makes You Hornier

If you’re looking for alcoholic drinks for higher libido, try some of these suggestions.

I have personally used them to improve my sexual performance. Alcohol in reasonable amounts can make you feel sexually confident, affectionate, relaxed, and experimental. 

Here’s a list of the best alcoholic drinks for higher libido.

1. Port Wine

Port wine’s one of the strongest aphrodisiacs you can drink to spice up your sex life and is my favorite. This fortified Portugal wine has a sweet flavor.

It’s usually served as a digestif and dessert wine. Depending on your taste preferences, you can drink Ruby or White port.

Ruby port is a red wine with berries, chocolate, and spice flavors. In comparison, White port is a white wine with brighter apple flavors, stone fruit, citrus peel, and toasted nuts.

Ruby port pairs well with dark chocolate, fresh raspberries, fruit cake, truffles, and aged cheese.

The White port goes best with chocolate-covered strawberries, oysters, salmon, sushi, salted almonds, chocolate, and fruit-based desserts.

Port will make you and your partner horny and increase your sexual arousal. Just don’t forget to drink responsibly.

2. Bloody Mary Oyster Shooters

Bloody Mary Oyster Shooters are perfect cocktails to make you hornier. Because as you may know, oysters are one of the most powerful aphrodisiacs. The amino acids that raw oysters contain increase progesterone, testosterone, and estrogen levels.

Oysters also increase dopamine, a hormone that boosts the libido in men and women. One of these delicious cocktails will be enough to relax you and give you some sexual confidence.

3. Honey, Saffron & Ginger Champagne Cocktail

Honey, Saffron & Ginger Champagne Cocktail is a great-tasting drink you can serve to warm up the atmosphere on your date night.

The best part? Making this cocktail full of various flavors isn’t hard.

Saffron is a natural aphrodisiac that improves sexual desire, sexual pleasure, and arousal. Ginger is also an aphrodisiac and increases libido and sexual arousal.

All these ingredients mixed in one great-tasting cocktail will make you hornier for sure.

4. Pink Lady 

Pink Lady is a classic cocktail made with gin, grenadine, applejack, lemon juice, and egg white, garnished with a maraschino cherry. This cocktail looks and tastes good because of its beautiful pink color and refreshing sweet-tart flavor.

Pink Lady is a perfect cocktail you can serve on Valentine’s Day, but it’s also a good option to prepare for your romantic meetings to improve mood and sexual performance.

5. Vanilla Honey Martini

Vanilla vodka mixed with honey and garnished with vanilla beans looks perfect but also tastes great. Honey is not just sweet and delicious food good for your health. It’s also an aphrodisiac that can sweeten up your sex life.

Vanilla aroma is another aphrodisiac that will increase your arousal. The sweet golden nectar and the vanilla aroma mixed in one tasty cocktail is a winning combination that will boost your libido.

6. Monte Cassino

Monte Cassino is a cocktail made with two herbal liqueurs, Chartreuse and Benedictine, known for their properties to increase libido. The other ingredients are American rye whiskey and lemon juice.

Chartreuse and Benedictine are both French liqueurs produced by monks.

They’re made with different herbs, plants, and spices and have a unique flavor that can’t be replaced. Monte Cassino cocktail has a great, well–balanced sweet-sour flavor that will improve your love life.

7. Cardamom Rose Cocktail

Cardamom Rose Cocktail is another romantic cocktail that looks and tastes great. It has a wonderful pink color and sweet, spice, and floral flavor.

This cocktail is made with rose simple syrup, gin, red grapefruit juice, lemon juice, bitters, and cardamom pod. Cardamom pod is the star of this cocktail alongside rose simple syrup.

Cardamom is a green or black aromatic spice. Green cardamom has a sweet, spicy, citrus flavor, while black cardamom has a smoky, minty, menthol-like flavor.

Cardamom is an aphrodisiac that helps you to enhance your libido. It’s also used as a natural treatment for impotence. That means cardamom can help you to improve your sex life. 

8. Sangria

Sangria is a Spanish wine cocktail you can drink on your date night.

This cocktail is a mixture of wine, fruit, liquor, liqueur, and a sweetener like simple syrup, maple syrup, agave nectar, or honey. You can make Sangria with your favorite bottle of red wine, although you can also use a rose or white wine if you prefer. 

The right type of fruit’s also important to enhance the flavor of the wine.

Depending on the type of wine and your taste, you can use cherries, oranges, blueberries, blackberries, kiwis, limes, strawberries, peaches, green apples, pineapple, and other fruits.

Liqueurs and liquors usually used in Sangria are brandy, orange liqueur, apple brandy, Raspberry liqueur, and others.

Mix all together, and let it sit for a few hours to let the flavors mix; add club soda or ginger ale before serving and enjoy. Sangria has a great refreshing taste and will make you feel relaxed.

9. Kiwi Blackberry Summer Sangria

Kiwi Blackberry Summer Sangria is a variation of Sangria you can make to improve your libido. They both contain high amounts of zink, positively affecting sexual desire, arousal, and maintaining an erection.

For this summer-refreshing Sangria, you will need white wine, fresh mint, sparkling berry juice, kiwi, and blackberries. Mix all in a large pitcher, refrigerate for a few hours and serve.

10. Jasmine Cocktail

Jasmine is a flower that has been used as an aphrodisiac for centuries. It can increase your sexual desire, attention, and alertness and improve your mood. Jasmine flower is a great addition to various alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks.

One of these drinks is the Jasmine cocktail, Dear Malika, a light, sweet, fruity, refreshing drink that will make you hornier. You can make this cocktail with jasmine liqueur, lime juice, lychee juice, absolut passionfruit flavored vodka, and ice cubes.

Add all the ingredients to a shaker, shake well, and double-strain in a cocktail glass. Garnish with a jasmine flower and serve.

11. Mexican Hot Chocolate Martini

Mexican Hot Chocolate Martini is another delicious cocktail that will make you more relaxed. Chocolate is a natural mood buster we usually consume to reduce stress, enjoy and relax.

Who doesn’t like chocolate? It tastes great and stimulates dopamine production, which creates a feeling of motivation and pleasure.

You can make your partner feel good with this drink made with dark chocolate liqueur, vodka, tequila, coffee-flavored liqueur, and chipotle powder.

12. Sex on the Beach

Sex on the Beach and the name says it all. Its beautiful colors and perfect sweet fruity flavor garnished with a small paper umbrella, maraschino cherry, and orange slice will make you feel like you’re on the beach.

Sex on the Beach has many variations, including this one made with vodka, orange juice, peach schnapps, cranberry juice,crème de cassis liqueur, maraschino cherry, and orange slice.

Pour all the ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice, shake well and strain in a highball glass. Garnish with maraschino cherry and orange slice, serve and enjoy. 

13. The Spicy Lemon Cocktail

The Spicy Lemon cocktail is a good cocktail for you if you like lemon and spicy flavor. Chili peppers are natural aphrodisiacs because they contain capsaicin which increases libido and boosts testosterone levels.

For this cocktail, you will need Bacardi Limon rum, all-natural simply lemonade, hot habanero sauce, one egg white, and ice. Mix all the ingredients in a cocktail shaker filled with ice, and shake well. Strain in a cocktail glass and serve. 

14. Absinthe

Absinthe is a distilled liquor with green color and dry, bitter anise taste. It contains between 45 and 74% ABV, and it’s not recommended to drink it straight.

A traditional way to dilute absinthe before consuming it’s known as the “absinthe ritual.” Absinthe is a strong liquor, and it can be dangerous if you drink larger amounts.

But one glass of absinthe -1oz diluted with 3-5 oz cold water and sugar is safe to drink to increase your sexual desire and intensify your experience.

You will have an unforgettable and new sexual experience if you drink small amounts of absinthe; remember that drinking more than one glass can be dangerous.

15. Cape Codder

Cape Codder or Cape Cod is a perfect fruity, refreshing, easy-to-make cocktail.

You will need only three ingredients-vodka, cranberry juice, and lime wedge. Pour the vodka and cranberry juice into a highball glass with ice cubes and stir well. Garnish with the lime wedge and serve.

Add ginger ale or soda if you want some bubbles in your cocktail.

Cape Codder is a cocktail with a tart flavor that pairs well with various dishes, so you can serve it with your meal and enjoy it on your date.

Does Drinking Alcohol Make You Hornier?

The common belief is that drinking alcohol has an aphrodisiac effect and makes you hornier. But is this true? Does drinking alcohol make your sex life better? Does alcohol have the same effects on women and men?

Here is the real effect that alcohol has on your sexual desire and performance.

Effects in Females

If you’re female, alcohol can have some effects on your sex life

One or two drinks may boost your sexual arousal

Testosterone is a male sex hormone that affects your sexual desire. When you drink alcohol, your testosterone levels rise, and you will have more sexual desire.

But that counts only for one drink because if you consume more alcohol, you will get the opposite effects –your sexual arousal will decrease.

Your mindset also plays a big role in increasing your sexual desire. Because when we drink, we feel more confident and sexier and expect to meet someone. If you wish and subconsciously want something to happen, there is a big chance that it will happen.

It can weaken women’s genital sensitivity

Small amounts of alcohol have less impact on women’s genital sensitivity, but too much alcohol can significantly decrease their genital sensitivity.

Therefore, when it comes to mixing alcohol and sex, it’s best to drink only small amounts of alcohol, to relax a bit, and not to get drunk and be unresponsive.

Orgasms are harder to achieve

Many women have difficulty achieving orgasm after drinking larger amounts of alcohol. There are cases when women drinking more than two drinks need longer stimulation to achieve orgasm than the ones that drink only one drink or none.

But there are also cases when women can’t reach orgasm when drinking alcohol.

It makes it harder to get wet

When women are horny, the blood flow in their genitals increases, making them swell and prepare for intercourse with self-lubricating.

But if you have too many drinks, this self-lubricating can not occur at all. This can result in friction, pain, and discomfort during intercourse.

Effects in Males

Alcohol also affects men’s sex life, and they can experience some difficulties 

Getting an erection might be difficult

Drinking larger amounts of alcohol can affect men’s ability to get an erection. While drinking too much alcohol regularly can cause erectile dysfunction. But there are also other ways alcohol can affect men’s sex life. For example:

Alcohol depresses your central nervous system.

Alcohol boosts angiotensin II, a hormone associated with erectile dysfunction. Alcohol also decreases the blood flow to the penis and can delay ejaculation.

It’s unlikely that 1-2 drinks will delay or prevent ejaculation, but drinking larger amounts will certainly do. On the other hand, one drink can make you hornier and increase your sexual desire.

Common Myths About Alcohol and Sex

There are various myths related to alcohol and sex. According to some studies’ results, what is true and what is false is easy to conclude.

When you’re drunk, everyone looks more attractive to you

There are few studies on this topic, and the conclusion of one study from 2014 is that when we are drunk, people look more attractive to us, even the people that we would not find attractive when sober.

That means when we are drunk; everything looks beautiful to us. We can even end up in bed with someone we normally would not like. The reason for these unwanted situations is the effect that alcohol has on our brains and body.

When drunk, we can have slurred speech, blurred vision, changes in our behavior, mood, and judgment, loss of coordination and balance, and slow reflexes.

Everyone Processes Alcohol in the Same Way – FALSE

It’s not true that everyone processes alcohol in the same way. Men and women absorb and metabolize alcohol in different ways.

Men have more body water than women, even if they have the same body weight. Therefore, men have more water to dilute the alcohol and lower concentrations of alcohol in their bloodstream compared to women.

That means if a man and a woman drink the same amount of alcohol, they will not get drunk at the same time.

You Can’t be Sexually Assaulted When You’re Drunk – FALSE

Suppose you have a few drinks or even get drunk; that is not a justification for unwanted sexual activity. According to research, alcohol is contributing factor and can be the reason for sexual assault.

Therefore, getting clear consent from both sides is necessary before any type of sexual contact. Drinking alcohol and getting drunk is not an exception to this very important rule. It’s extremely important to get consent when drinking alcohol and engaging in sexual activity because if the other person is drunk and can’t give you consent, you’re committing a sexual assault. You can be charged and go to jail for rape.                       

Alcohol Helps Your Performance in the Bedroom – TRUE

Alcohol helps your performance in the bedroom and increases your interest in sex, but only if you drink it in small amounts of 1-2 glasses. If you consume larger amounts of alcohol, it can have negative effects on your sex life.

Summary

Alcohol can definitely make you hornier, but only if you drink it reasonably: two drinks per day for men and one for women.

Anything more than that can make you drunk and mess up your sexual performance, and instead of being hornier, you will become worried.