Recruiting Interview-based study on sex and drugs (University of London)

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Hello Bluelighters,

My name is Ben Mechen and I am a researcher with a project funded by the Wellcome Trust and based at Royal Holloway, University of London. The project is called 'Pharmacosexuality: The Past, Present and Future of Sex on Drugs'. Our website is here. Please take a look!

At its core, the project is interested in how and why people use psychoactive drugs to enhance, or in some cases curb, sexual performance, function, pleasure and desires.

We are currently recruiting for interviews with people of all genders who have had sex while on drugs, or who have taken drugs while in sexual contexts. We are interested in speaking to people who combine sex and drugs proactively or with planning, and those who combine them more accidentally or spontaneously. For the purposes of this study, we are particularly interested in drugs other than alcohol and tobacco.

The interview includes questions on things like:

? Your motivations for using drugs in sexual contexts
? The types of drugs used and ways in which they are consumed for sex
? How pleasure (and other feelings) can be experienced through ?drugged sex?
? The extent to which drugs can change or transform sexual encounters

Our project is based in London and we are conducting in-person interviews there. However, we are also conducting interviews via Skype with people elsewhere in the UK and around the world. If you are interested in talking to us, please get in touch! I can be contacted at [email protected].

Interviews generally last about an hour and we are paying interviewees ?10 GBP for their time.

The other members of the project are Alex Dymock and Leah Moyle. They will also be conducting interviews.

Participation in the study is completely confidential and all data collected will be anonymized in any publications or presentations that arise from the project. Participants can withdraw their data at any time without giving a reason.

The project has received approval from the Royal Holloway, University of London Ethics Committee. We have sent a financial token of support to Bluelight in advance of this post.

Thanks for reading!

Ben Mechen
Research Associate
Royal Holloway, University of London
 
Hello Ben, interesting study. You should probably consider clarifying your definition of 'sex' for drugs users though.

Do you intend it to exclusively mean sexual intercourse with another (or multiple) person(s)?

Or does your definition include masturbation (ie autoeroticism), which is probably the dominant category in this context?
 
Hi CFC. Thanks for the excellent question!

To clarify: we are interested in all kinds of sexual activity, including masturbation.
 
Hi there, I live in California, USA and I was wondering if you are still looking for participants? Also, you mentioned compensation of 10 GBP...? Which is roughly $12.94 US dollars correct?
Thank you!
 
Hello, i too am interested but am in Australia. I could participate over Skype, im guessing the compensation amount would be approx $18 aud. Please let me know how i can be involved too.
 
Hi, I would like to participate for the "Sex Interview" and I just attempted to Email [email protected]. from my @Hotmail.com Email Address but it did not work any idea why? Can you Private Message Me the required detailed information to get signed up for the study please?
 
Hi, I would like to participate for the "Sex Interview" and I just attempted to Email [email protected]. from my @Hotmail.com Email Address but it did not work any idea why? Can you Private Message Me the required detailed information to get signed up for the study please?

Did the email bounce back or did you just not get a reply? I emailed him almost immediately after he first posted weeks ago & was told the study was full for now but he'd put me on a waiting list. And I said I'd do it for free. So most likely he's overwhelmed by responses. Paid drug studies fill up really fast.
 
There you have it.
This thread is a vacuum and needs to be filled or closed.
I think weed is a great aphrodisiac. It makes all my senses sharper and I feel everything.
Although there has been no official answer to the question... guess we shall see if visuals are allowed if there is one forthcoming?
Welcome, albert.
Maybe we can create an uprising and get our heads busted.
 
Hello there Ben, my names Joe and I am sending you this after just finding and reading your post regarding the research your doing. I have some personal experience around the subject your studying and also a personal interest. I would be happy to hear from you if you are still looking for people to interview etc
 
People get in the mood in so many different ways -- I like to bang morphine, nicomorphine and/or dihydromorphine and methylphenidate and tripelennamine before leaving the house and suck down two coffees or a line of nose candy at the restaurant or wherever. One lady who knows of my prep work with the Blue Speedball said it intensifies my personality,, which she meant as a compliment. There are, of course some people who should not intensify their personality because they are arseholes, but these are people who would improve if they took narcotics. After the nicomorphine or whatever hits the base of one's skull they will love everybody if they did it right. That makes all the difference in a lot of situations.

I really miss glutethemide. I started out mixing it with dihydrocodeine and antihistamines orally as a young man and it was the living end -- almost as good as Dilaudid/Hydal.
 
People get in the mood in so many different ways -- I like to bang morphine, nicomorphine and/or dihydromorphine and methylphenidate and tripelennamine before leaving the house and suck down two coffees or a line of nose candy at the restaurant or wherever. One lady who knows of my prep work with the Blue Speedball said it intensifies my personality,, which she meant as a compliment. There are, of course some people who should not intensify their personality because they are arseholes, but these are people who would improve if they took narcotics. After the nicomorphine or whatever hits the base of one's skull they will love everybody if they did it right. That makes all the difference in a lot of situations.

I really miss glutethemide. I started out mixing it with dihydrocodeine and antihistamines orally as a young man and it was the living end -- almost as good as Dilaudid/Hydal.

Where you from? You make / have made your own nicomorphine and dihydromorphine, or are they available as manufactured commercial drugs where you live? If so, under which names are they marketed? More, what tripelennamine, glutethemide and Hydal are?
 
Vilan, Subellan, MorZet are nicomorphine, Paramorfan and Dimorfan are dihydromorphine and Hydal is hydromorphone, all available within the Schengen Zone of Europe and DHM in Japan and elsewhere as well. Tripelennamine is the antihistamine component of Blue Velvet, the much much better morphine version of Ts & Blues. I have also conceived a great liking for ketobemidone, piritramide, and dextromoramide as well.

Speaking of combinations, compounding chemists are still able to make Scophedal, Merck's combination of oxycodone, hyoscine, and ephedrine which they introduced to rave reviews in 1928 and made until 1987. It is great for dental procedures and extreme breakthrough pain. It was designed to produce very deep analgesia, profound and intense euphoria, and anterograde amnesia, all with little or no impact on vital signs -- a nearly direct translation of the package insert.

Glutethemide is Doriden, as in Loads, Dors & Fours, Cibas & Codeine, which was made in Hungary until 2006. It made dihydrocodeine, codeine, nicocodeine, hydrocodone, thebacon and oxycodone all feel like smack or better when taken orally, especially on an empty stomach washed down with carbonated water. I also regret the effective disappearance of dipipanone and its close relative phenadoxone as well. They could really help people with chronic pain, acute pain, and maybe afflictions of the mind and spirit. I am thinking that they could be additional options available to people on opioid replacement therapy, alone, or as a prn adjunct as methadone clinics in the Netherlands did with dextromoramide somewhat recent;ly.

My own experience is from the first two of the three clinical reasons; the team of doctors give me everything but the nose candy, including the caffeine-methylphenidate combination to combat hypotension, orthostatic and otherwise, and uncommon instances of morning grogginess. I also lean more and more towards it to the exclusion of the nose candy due to concerns about cardiotoxicity. They rotate the main opioid every 6 to 15 months and over the years the list of ones with which I am familiar has grown to 40 or so. Including Permonid (desomorphine-C) way back when . . . I am intrigued and mystified by the Krokodil-related reports of a month-long abstinence syndrome which is quite a bit more spectacular than a huge percentage of full agonist opioids and all of the partial and mixed ones. Permonid burns off quickly enough that all other things being equal it is not a good choice for the fixed-schedule main opioid for chronic pain but the come-up is so intense that it seems to be designed by the Creator in her and/or his wisdom as an Emergency Department analgesic. It was invented in 1932 and pethidine was 1937, and is 9 to 13 times as potent as morphine and therefore maybe 15 times stronger than pethidine without all the toxicities -- a lot of trouble could have been avoided. Of course, with Krokodil that issue is not even in the top 10. I am surprised that the estimated life expectancy of users of improvised desomorphine made by the ɑ-chlorocodide method with no effort to remove unreacted precursors and solvents is two years -- considering what those folks are injecting I would have guessed six weeks, tops. ɑ-Chloromorphide and its bromo and iodo analogues are about 10 times as strong as morphine, according to the lab rats.

As it turns out, some time ago my pet rabbits (I've got to hand it to them -- they hate getting butorphanol at the veterinarian and can only count on morphine depending on the technicians working then. "Torbugesic sucks!" they told one of my cats . . .) did in fact work their way from dried entire plants of Papaver Somniferum var Album Linnaeus 1758 to quantities of nicomorphine, dihydromorphine, diacetylmorphine, hydromorphone, acetylmorphone, and diacetyldihydromorphine visible to the naked eye as a proof of concept for all of our peace of mind as the United States starts to bully other countries because of their alleged "opioid crisis" which is a Noisy & Politically Connected Owners of Rebab Clinics Who Are Not Satisfied With The Quantity of Cash That Fits In The Boot of a Ferrari & Lazy Dumb "Journalists" Crisis. Goddammit.
 
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A book I read in the 1960s, of which I cannot remember the title, indicated that cannabis sometimes precipitated threesomes and other group sex. I would point out that wine plus hydroxyzine plus hydrocodone and similar mixtures do it too . . .
 
Although I have plenty of drug experience, haven't really experimented with mixing drugs and sex much.. the only thing which really enhanced my sexual experiences (and actually made me crave them) was MDMA back in the day (even looking at porn on MDMA is massively enhanced), but paradoxically it also makes sex difficult and disappointing often, for guys at least..no idea about females. There are some recreational chemicals (RC's) I have tried which share some of the properties of MDMA in this context, but also similarly can make getting an erection difficult for guys, particularly at higher recreational doses.

For me good old alcohol has always been the best substance of choice to enhance any sex as it leaves you fully functional if you don't overdo it, less inhibited and the whole experience more fun. One novel substance I can remember trying which was very similar to alcohol, but even better for sex as it had cleaner euphoria and a physical body high, was GHB.
 
Hello Bluelighters,

My name is Ben Mechen and I am a researcher with a project funded by the Wellcome Trust and based at Royal Holloway, University of London. The project is called 'Pharmacosexuality: The Past, Present and Future of Sex on Drugs'. Our website is here. Please take a look!

At its core, the project is interested in how and why people use psychoactive drugs to enhance, or in some cases curb, sexual performance, function, pleasure and desires.

We are currently recruiting for interviews with people of all genders who have had sex while on drugs, or who have taken drugs while in sexual contexts. We are interested in speaking to people who combine sex and drugs proactively or with planning, and those who combine them more accidentally or spontaneously. For the purposes of this study, we are particularly interested in drugs other than alcohol and tobacco.

The interview includes questions on things like:

? Your motivations for using drugs in sexual contexts
? The types of drugs used and ways in which they are consumed for sex
? How pleasure (and other feelings) can be experienced through ?drugged sex?
? The extent to which drugs can change or transform sexual encounters

Our project is based in London and we are conducting in-person interviews there. However, we are also conducting interviews via Skype with people elsewhere in the UK and around the world. If you are interested in talking to us, please get in touch! I can be contacted at [email protected].

Interviews generally last about an hour and we are paying interviewees ?10 GBP for their time.

The other members of the project are Alex Dymock and Leah Moyle. They will also be conducting interviews.

Participation in the study is completely confidential and all data collected will be anonymized in any publications or presentations that arise from the project. Participants can withdraw their data at any time without giving a reason.

The project has received approval from the Royal Holloway, University of London Ethics Committee. We have sent a financial token of support to Bluelight in advance of this post.

Thanks for reading!

Ben Mechen
Research Associate
Royal Holloway, University of London

Hi Ben. I'd be interested in taking part in your study. How do I sign up to participate?
 
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