by Chynna Jasmine Pearson
Aphrodisiacs are a popular way to spice up the bedroom: oysters, chocolate, honey, pomegranate, and red wine all can get your juices flowing but what about cannabis? If you’ve spent time at a couple dispensaries, you might have come across some items like lubricant, body oils, or lotions, all infused with cannabis marketed as an enhancement for ones libido. Is cannabis just added for the concept or is there a real affect on the body when cannabis is involved in your sex life? Can adding cannabis to your bedroom improve your sex life? Cannabis and sex used to be closely associated with each other during the era of peace, love, sex, drugs, and rock and roll. The 1960s set a president for associating sex and cannabis. This is due to hippies and their ideal to embrace both sexual and cultural revolution, they called it “Free Love.” Free Love was a concept that aimed to release people from the shame of sex; people should be able to do it with whoever they want (consensually), whenever they want without any lingering guilt. It was also meant to try and separate the state from sexual love from romantic love. The claimed it was a problem for the people not the government. Scientifically, the National Library of Medicine did a study with 202 participants completing surveys on their experience with using cannabis prior to sex. Of the participants “58.9% said cannabis increased their desire for sex, 73.8% reported increased sexual satisfaction, 74.3% reported an increased sensitivity to touch, 65.7% reported an increased intensity of orgasms, 69.8% said they could relax more during sex, and 50.5% said they were better able to focus.” With these results, one can assume that the majority of people who use cannabis prior to sex untimely have a better experience. An additional study done by the National Library of Medicine focused more heavily on how women’s sexual experiences are affected by cannabis.
thechronicmagazine.com
JULY 2022
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