Many Americans may not be able to identify their own country on a map or fill out a ballot correctly, but ask them to talk about sex, drinking, and the relationship between the two, and everyone's an expert.

In an utterly unscientific study of the state of sexual culture in the East Bay and beyond, we asked folks in Oakland, Albany, and Berkeley about whether — in the age of and mounting fears about STIs and personal safety — the bar has lost its grip as the undisputed go-to locale for sexual liaisons, and whether that perception was ever more than an urban legend to begin with.

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