intojoy said:
Positive experiences with the drug often seem to take place with "highly sexual people" who find powerful eroticism intrinsically meaningful and useful, and not a waste of time or psychologically disturbing in some way. I have also read reports of experiences that began negatively, but turned positive when sex was (even reluctantly) pursued.
Are you suggesting that only people who are very sexual, not afraid of the nature of sex, their bodies, their lover's body, and have no hang-ups about sex are going to find 5-MeO-DiPT a "sexual aid?"
Cause no offense, but that is a bunch of crap. I don't mean to brag, or sound vein, but I am a very highly sexual person. I am completely comfortable with all aspects of myself and my sexuality. I do not have any hang-ups about sex or any sexual acts, unless they involve live electrical wires!
On other psychedelics; when I take them with my girlfriend they usually lead to hours-long marithon sex. I find sex under psychedelics both rewarding and pleasurable to the senses, as well as spiritual rewarding. I think sex is a sacred act, and since I only have sex with someone I love, making love while tripping can be a very cosmic event for me. Of the over two-dozen psychedelics I've tried, I have made love on nearly all of them. I find psychedelics in general to be great sexual enhancers.
5-MeO-DiPT however was terrible. Though I only took dosages between 6mg and 11mg, I found the body-load to be more than I can handle. Sex was out of the question. Never before has a psychedelic made engaging in sexual activity impossible like 5-MeO-DiPT did.
So perhaps your theory may be true for some. But again, I consider myself a very sexual person and I have no "hang ups" about it. I am completely free with my body, and I feel completely at one with my lover. Sex has always been a part of the psychedelic experience for me, because I usually trip with my girlfriend.
But again, the bodyload of 5-MeO-DiPT makes sex impossible for me, and the effects of the molecule in general not to be very rewarding. And this is not because I have don't view eroticism as, "intrinsically meaningful and useful, and not a waste of time or psychologically disturbing in some way." In fact I do find the gifts of the flesh to be both rewarding and meaningful. Making love is very meaningful and spiritual for me. And making love is something I associate with the psychedelic experience because I have sex most of the times I trip. But 5-MeO-DiPT just doesn't work for me. I'd best describe it as a "bodyload, with minor psychedelic side-effects."
I think any theory that is so "cut and dry" and "black and white" like this; a theory that is thought to apply to everyone a flawed theory at best. Psychedelics by nature are variable in the way the affect people. You can't come up with a specific "one size fits all" reason why some find 5-MeO-DiPT to be a treasure, and others find it garbage. It isn't so simple.