| Summary: | This article examines the issue of risk (taking) in the use of alcohol, by questioning the uncertainties about their structuring and their evolutions depending on gender. The results used are based on a study on university students from Poitiers area. The data show a quantitative reconciliation of certain drinking patterns between girls and boys and, at the same time, a persistent asymmetry, in particular regarding the “outsiders”, namely the abstinence and the consumptions deemed the most risked. This apparent paradoxical movement explain the difficulties to adjudicate unilaterally on the direction of evolutions: if there is no real “surpassing of gender”, no unchanged reproduction of drinking patterns is observed either.
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