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As memories of the festive season fade, many clinicians will recall recent patients who regret alcohol related sexual encounters. Alcohol has a complicated role in sexual cultures of the West, and perhaps an even more complicated place in settings where it is banned or hard to access. As a student visiting friends working in Norway, I was astonished to visit a home that had its own still, producing a potato liqueur behind locked cellar doors. Alcohol in the UK is relatively cheap, and home production of spirits (with the attendant risk of methanol poisoning) almost …