SEXIS WRONG

By the nineteenth century, the tide of moralistic prohibitionism
was firmly rising in the US, with a variety of failed attempts
by some US states to discourage and/or control alcohol
use through high taxation and outright banning only
strengthening the temperance movement’s resolve. The Reverend
Howard Hyde Russell’s Anti-Saloon League, founded
in 1895, launched one of the very early anti-drug campaigns
in the US, aimed at hard liquors and spirits and the saloons
that sold them, with advertisements and handbills printed up
proclaiming such scientific messages as, “Alcohol inflames
the passions, thus making the temptation to sex-sin unusually
strong.” 2
This perception, that alcohol use often leads to rampant immoral
sexual practices, continues right to this day, based in
part on reality, and in part on moralist fearmongering. The
BBC reported in March 2005 that by the upcoming October,
British “TV advertisers are to be banned from portraying alcohol
as an ‘aid to seduction’ or showing it alongside themes
“I was extremely high at that point,
so any curve of her skin, the smell
of her hair, it was all a wonder, as if I
had never done or seen this before.”
strongly appealing to under 18s.” The aim is to discourage
positive linking by youth of drinking and sex. “They should
also refrain from making links to sexual motive or include sexual
contact, and ads should not imply that sexual activity has
taken place or is about to take place.” 3
Alcohol is the first drug of choice today for most people,
mostly due to its being the only completely legal drug that
might be ingested in a social setting without fear of arrest.
Legal, and one of the most potent, most easily overdone
drugs, alcohol is also inhibition-releasing yet potentially damaging
to the sexual act.
Who hasn’t gone to a bar to try to get drunk and laid at the
same time? It’s such a socially accepted practice, so common
and unremarkable, that most people don’t even consider
that they’re taking a drug when slugging down their cocktails,
watching and hearing members of the opposite (or same)
sex grow ever more attractive as they themselves grow ever
more confident, often simultaneously growing ever more
sloppy and drunk. There’s no denying that alcohol has been
at the root of many a date rape, abusive domestic situation,
and simply bad sex—there’s a fine line with alcohol where
“too much” is only a fraction more, often just one drink, than
“just enough.”
“One time I had a regular at my bar ask me to make
him a drink that would make him horny, so I made
him a Peach Vellini, as that usually makes me
horny, too.”—anonymous female NYC bartender
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“I suppose if fumbling, energetic, and overall goofy
sex is your thing, I would say alcohol is the ticket.
Hard thing about that is just enough and you
should have some fun. Too much and, well, your
man rising to the occasion could be a challenge.”—
Johann, subscriber to DrugWar.com email list
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“Alcohol? Sometimes a struggle, and not ideal
conditions, but I have been known to make the
odd Command Performance.”—Tim M., subscriber
to DrugWar.com email list
Marijuana
“I have had sex while under the influence of
marijuana, and it did seem to make the experience
more warm and soft. I was extremely
high at that point, so any curve of her
skin, the smell of her hair, it was all a
wonder, as if I had never done or seen
this before. It made things new again.”—
Johann
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“You always hear that marijuana is supposed to be
a libido inhibitor, but for me, marijuana has always
been a true aphrodisiac. Not in the ‘I smoke, then
I get horny’ kind of way, but in a general, overall
sense, and I have smoked daily for 24 years.
Cannabis is known to be a dopamine agonist
and without dopamine you don’t feel horny, so it
stands to reason that a dopamine agonist is gonna
help in that department, not hinder things.
“And certainly during periods of time when I am
not smoking daily (those rare, rare times), I feel,
well, less horny. Then I light one up and bingo,
horny again. All day every day, that’s my motto.
Not saying if I am referring to smoking or fucking.
I will let you figure that one out.”—Richard
Metzger, cofounder and creative director of The
Disinformation Company Ltd.
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“Pot? Love it. IMHO [In my humble opinion] it
connects you with your partner and makes it more
pleasurable, more ‘into’ things and more attention
is paid to other aspects other than the piston
action. Staying power is very high. Too high,
sometimes.”—Tim M.
“Probably the most natural sensual stimulant would be mari-
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