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enhance your dancing, artistic creativity, sex, or
any other activity you enjoy. But, depending on
dose and time, crystal may interfere with these and
other desired functions. While crystal can intensify
sex, it does not automatically trigger sexual desire.
Most of the sexual desire men experience on speed
is learned or “expected” behavior. Here’s how it
works. At first,
you don’t know
what sex on
crystal is like.
Then during
your next high
someone
engages you
in a sexual
situation and
you quickly
find out! At
this point your
brain makes a
connection between getting high and having sex.
This response is “learned behavior.” Now your
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If you get high in
a bath house,
chances are you
will be aroused!
If you are high at
the QFC, you
might just get
caught up in reading
the food labels for
several hours.
Q: I won’t get STDs because I don’t
sleep with guys that have them.
brain expects that when you get high, you want
to have sex. This is expectation. A lot of guys have
such intense expectation with crystal and sex that
the events get reversed. Just thinking about sex
makes some men want to get high.
Of course, your brain can make connections
between crystal and unpleasant sex as well.
For some, crystal sex is empty and isolating.
Some men talk about feelings of shame about
what they did or who they did while high.
They might feel guilty about not using condoms
or not disclosing their HIV status. For others,
the connection between crystal and sex may not
exist. Some men use their high to focus on other
activities like writing, drawing, painting, or even
cleaning their house.
Crystal can be a sexual drug if a man wants it
to be. But the sexual effects of crystal are not
the same for everybody. Sexual response will
depend on how much, how often and how long
a person has used. Your environment has a lot
to do with it as well. If you get high in a bath
house, chances are you will be aroused! If you
are high at the QFC, you may just get
caught up in reading the food labels
for several hours.
It’s your high and you can have sex
if you want to. There’s nothing wrong
with you if you don’t have a screaming
urge to head to the bath house. But
if you do get horny, remember
that crystal may also lessen
your resolve to fuck safely.
So plan for safety before you get
high. Have those condoms
and lube ready before
you enjoy!
Dr. Dick
A: Many STDs, like HIV, chlamydia, herpes and hepatitis don’t
always show visible signs of infection for long periods of time.