Tag Archives: Sexualized Drug Use

Friday, October 9th, 2020

Chasing Intensity: The Need for Stimulation

David Fawcett PhD, LCSW The potent mood-changing power of high-intensity, dopamine-related addictions such as stimulant drug addiction, pornography addiction, and sex addiction creates a super-stimulating effect that resets the...
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Monday, September 28th, 2020

Understanding Sexualized Drug Use (Paired Substance/Sex Addiction)

What is Paired Substance/Sex Addiction? Countless men pair and eventually fuse the use and abuse of substances with sexual behavior. (This is sometimes referred to as chemsex.) Often, this...
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Friday, September 18th, 2020

The Aphrodisiac Effect of Secret Sexual Desires, Part 2: Substance Abuse and Secret Sexual Desires

David Fawcett PhD, LCSW In my previous post to this site, we discussed the four cornerstones of eroticism, as delineated by Jack Morin in his highly regarded book, The...
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Monday, August 17th, 2020

Understanding Chemsex (Sexualized Drug Use)

What is Chemsex? Chemsex is the paired use of drugs, particularly methamphetamine, with sexual behavior. The term ‘chemsex’ was coined in the UK to refer to gay men who...
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Monday, August 10th, 2020

Sexual Shame and Substance Abuse

Understanding Sexual Shame No shame is more powerful than sexual shame. Often, sexual shame is linked to unresolved early-life sexual trauma. People who experience sexual abuse, neglect, violence, verbal...
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Friday, July 31st, 2020

The Epidemiology (Frequency and Manifestations) of Sexualized Drug Use

David Fawcett PhD, LCSW Most addictions do not occur in isolation. Instead, they represent multiple behavioral expressions of a single underlying addictive disorder. Historically, however, many addicts were thought...
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Friday, July 17th, 2020

Substances and Sex: Drugs that Heighten Arousal

David Fawcett PhD, LCSW This post is part of an ongoing series examining the ways in which substance use impacts sexual behavior and vice versa. Previous posts have covered...
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