“…The alcohol diet used induces a mean consumption of approximately 12 g of ethanol/kg of body weight/day by the dam, yielding maternal blood alcohol levels of about 150 mg/dl (Ward et al, 1996a). Our findings are in agreement with other studies that report that gonadally intact males derived from dams exposed to alcohol during pregnancy ejaculate normally (Chen and Smith, 1979;Dahlgren, Eriksson, Gustafsson, Harthon, Hård, and Larsson, 1989;Hård, Dahlgren, Engel, Larsson, Liljequist, Lindh, and Musi, 1984;McGivern et al, 1998;Ward et al, 1996a). It is in combination with stress that alcohol exposure has a consistently depressant effect on male copulatory behavior.…”