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Sex and Drugs and John Walters

Meth eventually destroys the sex drive, but for a short while it can boost sexual appetite and performance more powerfully than drugs such as cocaine, doctors say.

I didn't know this. I don't recall it being true about the meth in the 60s - we used it stay awake. Cocaine was the drug associated with great sex then, but the drugs were purer so maybe it's just the chemical composition of the "new meth". In any event a survey of addicts revealed that sex is the number one reason people start using the drug.

"The effect of an IV hit of methamphetamine is the equivalent of 10 orgasms all on top of each other lasting for 30 minutes to an hour, with a feeling of arousal that lasts for another day and a half," she said.

There is a down side of course.

"After you have been using it about six months or so you can't have sex unless you are high," Holley said. "After you have been using it a little bit longer you can't have sex even when you're high. Nothing happens. It doesn't work."

Meanwhile our drug czar is concerned that consumers are being misled.

"All substance abuse is frequently marketed as enhancing sex life or making you more attractive or a better social companion," said John Walters, the drug czar for President Bush. But he added that buying meth as an aphrodisiac is "buying under false pretenses."

"Hair falls out. Teeth fall out," Walters said. "That's not sexy."

And you thought he didn't care...