SEXIS WRONG

juana but—take heed—this is an illegal natural substance.” 4
The Internet is full of websites put together by or in cooperation
with the Partnership for a Drug-Free America and
other anti-drug groups, along with the help and funding of
the US White House Office of National Drug Control Policy
(ONDCP), that decry the use of drugs and engaging in sex
by teens, warning of the dangers of sex and marijuana (and
other drugs, too, of course) in combination. These websites
are chock full of dire predictions of pregnancies, disease, and
death—and the warnings, if quite a bit over the top, are often
worthwhile when it comes to young people mixing substance
use with sexual activity, though the threats posed by marijuana
are usually overinflated in the extreme, even laughable.
This can lead to young people totally disregarding any of the
beneficial and serious warnings of possible danger ahead.
Marijuana is by far the most widely used illegal drug in the
world, enjoyed regularly by anywhere between 20 to 50 million
Americans each year, and it has been used in conjunction
with sex for millennia. It wasn’t until the early twentieth
century that the outcry against marijuana and those “degenerates”
who used it—often Mexicans, blacks, and jazz
musicians, and the white women they were reported to be
leading astray—really began to rise in volume, accompanied
by strenuous calls for its outright banning, with William Randolph
Hearst’s newspapers leading the charge.
Robert A. Nelson describes a reefer-madness styled, sexfearing
article published during the original attack on pot.
“An unqualified article linking marihuana, crime and insanity,
written by M.A. Hayes and L.E. Bowery (a policeman from
Wichita, Kansas) was published in The Journal of Criminal
Law and Criminology (1932), and thereafter it was often cited
as a definitive study. Hayes and Bowery asserted that the
marihuana user is capable of ‘great feats of strength and endurance,
during which no fatigue is felt... [S]exual desires are
stimulated and may lead to unnatural acts, such as indecent
exposure and rape.’” 5
Despite these early horror stories blaming all
sorts of sexual criminality and depravity on the
use of the demon weed, millions of people
from all walks of life, with all sorts of sexual
preferences and practices, merrily smoke it to
this day, using it to help ease their inhibitions,
increase sensitivity, and generally help make
their sex that much more enjoyable. The ONDCP has taken
note of this tendency and claims at various times that smoking
pot will decrease libido and cause other unspecified sexual
debilitations, yet simultaneously runs taxpayer-funded antidrug
commercials that link pot-smoking to teen pregnancy.
This is just one more indication of the insanely schizophrenic
nature of the War on Some Drugs and Users.
“In the end, the right variety of cannabis—a
good sativa/indica hybrid—is the best enhancer.
One with a ‘high head’ but that also delivers an
underlying physical rush without wonking you
out like a Quaalude on a stick. Throw in the little
mentioned narcotic, music—for me, some haunting
jazz with a soprano sax.... Hmmm. Anyway, in
reviewing my most memorable sexual experiences
(and I’ve had quite a few), the best ones could be
described as beginning in that manner.”—Libby,
subscriber to DrugWar.com email list
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“I smoke my slave out when we begin a session
together. It seems to give things, or at least put
him into a more spiritual place when we’re playing.
It leaves him less inhibited or reserved, and helps
him into a more special place. We never actually
have sex per se, only role-play, but he’s my fulltime
slave, living with me, and it’s definitely a
sexual situation.”—Velocity Chyaldd, front woman
of the NYC band Vulgaras
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“I like pot brownies a lot. They are definitely an
aphrodisiac for me, particularly the combination
of chocolate and marijuana. The same goes for
mushrooms and chocolate.”—DJ Ness, female
NYC DJ
Psychedelics
“I’m always fond of tripping and sex. ‘It’s so cool
when your face melts when I come, honey. And
your pussy looks cosmic.’”—Steven Anker
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“Well, for me, sex on X (ecstasy) is the shit, the
best, indescribably delicious. That would be old
school X—MDAA, MDMA, powder form, not the
I experienced perceptions and
feelings I never imagined possible,
a meeting between her and myself
on the very deepest levels, a melding
together as one person.
bullshit they call X today. A blend of X and LSD is
also a delight, and straight up fresh and clean LSD
is also beautiful, while mushrooms, they’re mystic
and tantric.”—Sharon Secor, freelance journalist
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“For myself, I never liked doing it under the influence
of psychedelics. For me, acid and mescaline and
mushrooms were always more about the cerebral
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