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I woke up this morning...
Apr. 2nd, 2019 08:39 amAnd I saw this:
www.theguardian.com/society/2019/apr/02/drugs-before-sex-more-common-in-uk-than-in-europe-or-us-study
Wherein we find that:
"UK citizens are more likely than Europeans or those living in the US to have taken drugs such as MDMA and cocaine before sex during the last year, according to a new study."
and
"... He said cannabis was more commonly used in the US in general and this correlated with a higher number of people using it during sex. Cannabis was the only drug in which the UK did not top the US and other countries, with 49% of people from the states combining it with sex compared with 36% in the UK."
Now I've always contended that the British, and in particular the English and Welsh, are a nation of slappers and tarts of both male and female (and other) varieties. And to be candid, we are ok with that. I know we have a worldwide rep for being cold and somewhat emotionally distant, but that's because sex is now more of a recreation rather than being about reproduction; and in many respects the severing of the connection with reproduction renders sex a pleasant hobby, rather than the emotional maelstrom binding families together or tearing them apart. In this, we are are coming to resemble the upper classes of previous centuries, but with a lessening of the imbalance of sexual politics between men and women, heterosexuals and homosexuals, and cis and transgendered folk.
But the sordid, filthy Brits do Chemsex rather more than the rest of the world. Do we have to get off our faces to actually sleep with someone else? Of course not. Is it more fun when you are high/stoned/tripping etc? Well, if you can manage sex with all the background of altered consciousness and heightened senses it can be pretty damn amazing - ask any rock star. I mean to say you don't do dangerous things more than once unless you actually like doing them. Unless you're mad, of course. And as a nation, right now, we are pretty mad.
So I guess the reason half of us Brits take drugs before sex is on the off-chance that our prospective bedmate might be a Brexiteer. That way we have an excuse, I suppose. Or maybe we can hope to blot out the details.
www.theguardian.com/society/2019/apr/02/drugs-before-sex-more-common-in-uk-than-in-europe-or-us-study
Wherein we find that:
"UK citizens are more likely than Europeans or those living in the US to have taken drugs such as MDMA and cocaine before sex during the last year, according to a new study."
and
"... He said cannabis was more commonly used in the US in general and this correlated with a higher number of people using it during sex. Cannabis was the only drug in which the UK did not top the US and other countries, with 49% of people from the states combining it with sex compared with 36% in the UK."
Now I've always contended that the British, and in particular the English and Welsh, are a nation of slappers and tarts of both male and female (and other) varieties. And to be candid, we are ok with that. I know we have a worldwide rep for being cold and somewhat emotionally distant, but that's because sex is now more of a recreation rather than being about reproduction; and in many respects the severing of the connection with reproduction renders sex a pleasant hobby, rather than the emotional maelstrom binding families together or tearing them apart. In this, we are are coming to resemble the upper classes of previous centuries, but with a lessening of the imbalance of sexual politics between men and women, heterosexuals and homosexuals, and cis and transgendered folk.
But the sordid, filthy Brits do Chemsex rather more than the rest of the world. Do we have to get off our faces to actually sleep with someone else? Of course not. Is it more fun when you are high/stoned/tripping etc? Well, if you can manage sex with all the background of altered consciousness and heightened senses it can be pretty damn amazing - ask any rock star. I mean to say you don't do dangerous things more than once unless you actually like doing them. Unless you're mad, of course. And as a nation, right now, we are pretty mad.
So I guess the reason half of us Brits take drugs before sex is on the off-chance that our prospective bedmate might be a Brexiteer. That way we have an excuse, I suppose. Or maybe we can hope to blot out the details.
