Sex and drugs

Sex and the use of drugs, both legal and illegal, have been linked throughout human history, encompassing all aspects of sex: desire, performance, pleasure, conception, gestation, and disease.

Disinhibition

Drugs are frequently associated with reduced sexual inhibition, both when used voluntarily in social circumstances, and involuntarily, as in the case of some date rape drugs.

Because drug and alcohol use is commonly presented as an excuse for risky or socially unacceptable behaviour, it is necessary to treat the idea of a direct causal relation between drug use and unsafe sex with caution. Drugs may provide a socially acceptable excuse for engaging in sexual behaviours in which people may want to engage but perhaps feel that they should not.^[1]

Sexual function

Some forms of sexual dysfunction such as erectile dysfunction can be treated with drugs. Because of their effects, erectile dysfunction drugs are sometimes used for recreational purposes.

Many drugs, both legal and illegal, have side effects that affect the user's sexual function. Tobacco use (e.g., cigarette smoking), also reduces sexual function, with the incidence of impotence being approximately eighty-five percent higher in male smokers compared to non-smokers.^[2] Many drugs can cause loss of libido as a side effect.

Since the partial cause of the refractory period is the inhibition of dopamine by an orgasm-induced secretion of prolactin,^[3] such potent dopamine receptor agonists as cabergoline may help achieve multiple orgasms as well as the retention of sexual arousal for longer periods.^[4]

Contraception and abortion

Drug-based contraception has been available since the development of the contraceptive pill. As well as their contraceptive effects, contraceptive drugs can also have adverse sexual and reproductive side-effects. Prior to the availability of effective contraceptives, some substancies were also used as abortifacients to terminate pregnancy; medical abortion exists as a modern medical practice.

References

↑ Race K (2009): Pleasure Consuming Medicine: The queer politics of drugs Durham: Duke University Press.
↑ "The Tobacco Reference Guide". Retrieved 2006-07-15.
↑ Haake, P.; Exton, M.S.; Haverkamp, J.; Krämer, M.; Leygraf, N.; Hartmann, U.; Schedlowski, M.; Krueger, T.H.C. (April 2002), "Absence of orgasm-induced prolactin secretion in a healthy multi-orgasmic male subject", International Journal of Impotence Research, 14 (2), pp. 133–135, doi:10.1038/sj/ijir/3900823, retrieved 2007-07-30
↑ Krüger TH, Haake P, Haverkamp J, et al. (December 2003). "Effects of acute prolactin manipulation on sexual drive and function in males". Journal of Endocrinology. 179 (3): 357–65. doi:10.1677/joe.0.1790357. PMID 14656205.

External links

"Sex Under the Influence" on antidepressants, alcohol, marijuana, and ecstasy from the University of California at Santa Barbara
Marijuana and Sex: A Classic Combination

Recreational drug use

Major
recreational
drugs

Psychedelics	Bufotenin Psychoactive toads Vilca Yopo DMT Ayahuasca LSA LSD-25 Mescaline Peruvian Torch Peyote San Pedro Psilocybin / Psilocin Psilocybin mushrooms

Dissociatives	DXM Glaucine Inhalants Nitrous oxide alkyl nitrites poppers amyl nitrite Ketamine MXE Muscimol Amanita muscaria PCP Salvinorin A Salvia divinorum

Deliriants	Atropine and Scopolamine Atropa belladonna Datura Hyoscyamus niger Mandragora officinarum Dimenhydrinate Diphenhydramine

Cannabinoids	JWH-018 THC Cannabis Hashish Hash oil

Oneirogens	Calea zacatechichi Silene capensis

Drug culture

Cannabis culture	420 Cannabis cultivation Cannabis smoking Legal history of cannabis in the United States Legality of cannabis Marijuana Policy Project Medical cannabis NORML Religious and spiritual use of cannabis Stoner film

Coffee culture	Coffee break Coffeehouse Latte art Tea house

Drinking culture	Bartending Beer culture Beer festival Binge drinking Drinking games Drinking song Happy hour Hip flask Nightclub Pub crawl

Psychedelia	Art Drug Era Experience Literature Music Therapy

Smoking culture	Cigarette card Fashion cigarettes Cloud-chasing Loosie Smokeasy Smoking fetishism Tobacco smoking

Other	Club drug Counterculture of the 1960s Dance party Drug paraphernalia Drug tourism Entheogen Hippie Party and play Poly drug use Rave Self-medication Sex and drugs Whoonga

Drug
production
and trade

Drug production	Coca production in Colombia Drug precursors Opium production in Afghanistan Rolling meth lab

Drug trade	Illegal drug trade in Colombia

Issues with
drug use

Abuse
Date rape drug
Effects of cannabis
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Drug-related crime
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
Illegal drug trade
Long-term effects of cannabis
Neurotoxicity
Overdose
Passive smoking
- of tobacco or other substances

Legality of
drug use

International	1961 Narcotic Drugs 1971 Psychotropic Substances 1988 Drug Trafficking Council of the European Union decisions on designer drugs

State level	Drug policy Decriminalization Prohibition Supply reduction Policy reform Demand reduction Drug Policy Alliance Harm reduction Law Enforcement Against Prohibition Liberalization Latin America Students for Sensible Drug Policy Transform Drug Policy Foundation

Drug policy by country	Australia Canada Germany India Netherlands Portugal Slovakia Soviet Union Sweden Switzerland United States Just Say No Office of National Drug Control Policy School district drug policies California Colorado Maryland Virginia

Other	Arguments for and against drug prohibition Capital punishment for drug trafficking Designer drug Drug court Drug harmfulness Drug possession Drug test Mexican Drug War Philippine Drug War Narc Politics of drug abuse War on Drugs Zero tolerance

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