Gay sex and meth

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Meth Use and Sex Sex without substances can be intimidating for anyone. The world became grey, muted, and not pleasurable when I was off it. Ultimately, recovery will require a brave step towards giving up something that once worked for you, but now no longer works and always leads to the same dark, anxiety filled place.

Continuing to take crystal meth is not only serve as a distraction to help cope with the trauma but also validate a user’s position within the gay community. The days and days of being up and not sleeping, and the intense dopamine release during that time, make the come-down one of the worst one can experience.

In therapy you can come up with a plan to intercept addictive behaviors, and learn to cope with difficult emotions more effectively. Meth has long been associated with gay men. The effects of the drug on the brain and body keep getting exponentially more damaging, and between the physical addiction and the subsequent loss of impulse control, it can be extremely difficult to get out of the cycle of using.

While I had been drinking, smoking pot, and dabbling in psychedelics and other drugs since high school, I discovered meth when in college through the gay club scene. If we could simply stop on our own, we would. It allowed my friends and I to keep dancing all night long, followed by having sex in a way that made up for all the years of stifled longing and buried desires.

After coming from the other end of the spectrum, not being allowed to develop naturally and express my true self and sexuality, being in this space felt so good and so free that I never wanted it to end. You may even realize you need more accountability than just therapy alone.

The miracle of crystal meth, of course. Being in this environment was a high in-and-of-itself, but when combined with the substances that were going around ecstasy, GHB, meth, ketamineI was truly flying for what felt like the first time.

The clubs felt like a new family had embraced me, and with that I would pretty much try anything that was put in front of me. Seeing a queer affirming therapist can also be an important step. When I look back on it all now, I realize it was just going to be a matter of time.

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Meth is one of the most popular drugs in the gay community. Long-term effects of feeling this way about ourselves include depression and anxiety. At first it helped me keep the party going, keep the sex hot, keep the mood up, but something began to shift the more I did it.

The lost inhibitions induced by the drug are in such contradiction to the lifetime of suppression that most gay men have to adopt, that the appeal is magnetic. There are recovery groups around, including step groups, that can provide even more structure and tools for living life in a different way.

In fact, one of the biggest reasons many gay men don’t stop using meth is because of the effect it has on their sex lives. Coming from a tumultuous, repressed, and traumatizing family life, suddenly being in an accepting space with other gay men who encouraged me to be free, feel good, and not hide my sexual feelings was like a dream come true.

Jake is a therapist at the Gay Therapy Center. As a recovered meth addict, and a therapist specializing in addiction and recovery, I have seen countless times how this drug can take people down to the depths. So when something can come along and literally strip away those feelings of shame, sadness, not feeling good enough, repression, isolation, etc.

Addiction is often larger than us. Because crystal meth has become so popular within the gay party circuit, gay meth users will sometimes feel pressure to take the drug to desperately ‘stay’ in the gay scene. At first, methamphetamine causes the person to experience a rush of dopamine, a feel-good chemical in the brain.

One of the first steps you can take towards recovery is to get help from another person.