SEXIS WRONG

than the physical planes. It was too much work
to stay present in the body that was performing
the act when my mind was out chasing phantom
scraps of other realities. Besides, the room was
always melting on me. I much preferred to be
outdoors walking in that state.”—Libby
Infamous LSD proponent Timothy Leary labeled acid “the
most powerful aphrodisiac ever discovered.” 6 But this isn’t
the universal view concerning psychedelics and sex by
any means. The Blue Honey website says: “To determine
whether psychedelic plants are, indeed, aphrodisiacs, we
must first determine what we mean by an aphrodisiac. If we
mean that the drugs specifically excite the sexual organs,
then psychedelics are not aphrodisiacs. If we mean that
they produce or encourage sexual desire, again they are not
aphrodisiacs. But if we mean that the drugs can profoundly
enhance the quality of sexual acts that occur between people
who would, in any case, have had intercourse, then the drugs
are aphrodisiacs, and my only objection to the term in this
context is that it will continue to be misused by psychedelic
or sexual extremists.” 7
So what we’re seeing is the police
asserting both that LSD destroys the
sex drive yet simultaneously turns
users into sex-mad maniacs.
For this writer, there once was a time when I felt like Libby,
quoted above. I clearly remember saying to someone during
a conversation—just nineteen and living in Paris, where I sold
and ate a lot of LSD—that I did not enjoy sex while I was tripping
on LSD, that I was usually too distracted and involved in
the visions and deep thoughts to spend much time concentrating
on my sexual partner. I went so far as to insist that I’d
“never” enjoy sex during an LSD trip.
But then came that one special night a few years later in Tampa,
Florida, when my partner (at the time) and I melted into
one another during a particularly heavy yet easygoing trip. 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, with moments
of telepathic communication and multiple, simultaneous
orgasms during hour upon hour of incredible, literally magical
sex. Ever since that night I have always found sex while
high on certain psychedelics to be extremely enjoyable; substances
such as LSD and mushrooms add a special level to
lovemaking, leading me to some of the most profound mental
revelations I’ve ever experienced, as well as some of the
most intense physical sensations I’ve ever felt during sex or
otherwise.
P.G. Stafford and B.H. Golightly—discussing the linking by
fearmongering politicians and police of LSD use and violence,
helped along by a new generation of yellow journalists and the
rags that published their outrageous anti-drug screeds—note
that fears of violent trippers weren’t the only worries manipulated
to frighten middle America into supporting the latest
drug prohibitions and subsequent war upon users of LSD and
other psychedelics. “Others were quick to link LSD to sex.
Thus The Confidential Flash asserted in a full-page headline,
‘LSD Kills Sex Drive Forever’ although the story itself in no
way bore out this claim. And, interestingly enough, the Police
Gazette, in its August, 1966 issue, reprinted an article from
The Journal of the American Medical Association which they
retitled ‘LSD and Sex Madness.’” 8 So what we’re seeing is
the police, and others who depend upon the War for their
livelihood, asserting both that LSD destroys the sex drive yet
simultaneously turns users into sex-mad maniacs—yet another
example of prohibitionist schizophrenia.
Oddly enough, these anti-drug zealots may have a valid point
tying psychedelic drug use to sexual escapades, even if they
can’t keep their scare stories straight and their facts are often,
if not usually, skewed or just flat-out wrong. In
this case, they’ve gotten things entirely backwards,
if their own religion’s roots are any indication.
There is strong evidence that even the
most important Christian holy day, or at least
its pagan predecessor, was once marked with
the use of strong psychedelic plants during sexual festivities.
“The celebration we know as Easter dates back long before
the time of Christ, and has its origins in traditions that involved
ritualized sex and consumption of a wide variety of potent
psychedelics and aphrodisiacs, including marijuana,” writes
Reverend Damuzi. 9 For any fundamentalist Christian who
sides with the prohibitionistic moralists in calling for stricter
controls of both sex and drugs, the idea that Easter stems
from an ancient pagan event celebrated with debauched orgies
involving the taking of heavily hallucinogenic substances
while having sex with all sorts of unmarried people must be
particularly galling. But it just goes to show that people have
been mixing sex and psychedelics for far longer than Christianity
itself has been on the planet, which leads some to suspect
there may be something to the idea that we are meant
to be mixing the two, or at least that there’s nothing sinful or
unnatural about doing so.
“It was MDA (the love drug) back in the 1970s and
later MDMA. (Both precursors of today’s XTC, which
I haven’t tried yet because I haven’t found anyone
who could promise me what they could get was
real XTC.) If my date agreed to party with me on
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