Sexual feeling

GHB is currently extremely popular in the dance club and rave scene. It is also popular among the gay community as well as with exotic dancers and strippers. It is primarily used for its ability to produce euphoria, intoxication, and enhanced sexual feelings. Others use it as a sleep aid or to enhance bodybuilding. Still others use it intentionally as a date rape drug. Abusers of other drugs, such as cocaine or methamphetamine, often take GHB to reduce the withdrawal... 

Cocaine acts similarly to amphetamine with regard to its ability to enhance the effects of the catecholamines and serotonin at the synapse. The actions of cocaine on the brain lead to increased alertness, reduced hunger, increased physical and mental endurance, increased motor activity, and an intensification of most normal pleasures. This last feature may explain why so many claim that cocaine enhances emotional and sexual feelings. Cocaine abusers usually co-administer other drugs that are brain depressants (e.g., alcohol, heroin, or marijuana) to decrease the unpleasant hyperstimulant aspects of cocaine. 

The problem with these myths is that they are often believed by the elderly themselves. As a result, older people adopt a negative view of their own sexual feelings, desires, and fantasies. The myth of sexless older years held by young people becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy when they reach old age. As a result, many elderly people are overwhelmed with guilt and shame when they have sexual desires. 

Effects First effects after 30 minutes (15 minutes with vitamin C), warm, pleasant spinal shivers, followed by psychic stimulation, heightening of emotional and sexual feelings, mild perceptual changes without hallucinations, sometimes spontaneous erections. Sexual activity is especially pleasurable. Feelings of bodies melting into one another. Total experience last 2-4 hours. Aftereffects pleasant, relaxed feeling with no hangover. See YOHIMBINE. 

Undulation or wavelike motion of viewed surfaces Euphoria, general stimulation, ruminative state Slowed passage of time Transient sexual feelings and synesthesias A few auditory hallucinations... 

Other pleasurable effects are warm spinal shivers which are especially enjoyable during coitus and orgasm (bodies feel like they are melting into one another), psychic stimulations, mild perceptual changes without hallucinations, and heightening of emotional and sexual feeling. ... 

Dekker, J., W. Everaerd and N. Verhelst 1985 Attending to stimuli or to images of sexual feelings Effects on sexual arousal. Behaviour Research [Pg.381]

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