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On Tumblr, though, men have made sex on meth look like both a community and an aspirational lifestyle. As "The VICE Guide to Chemsex" said, " can now be used to describe a guy leaving a chillout after three days with no sleep." After sex on meth, though, guys suffer from massive comedowns. The logic goes that the closer you look to death, the more guys will think you're hot and want to fuck you. Although many gay men fetishize muscle builders, others love skinny anorexic-looking twinks. The drug also makes them confident and literally more skinny, a look that's fetishized as much as muscle-bound hunks. You just feel better than you've ever felt before."Ĭrystal meth increases the length of men's erections. "You can last longer, and you have this incredible sense of confidence that I've never felt before.
"It just makes sex with strangers really, really good," Taylor says. Sex on meth is fun, and it decreases many of their inhibitions. Read more: Los Angeles Has the Best Glory Hole in Americaįor some younger gays, it's simpler that that. HIV activism was their high, and now they had a life to live but, as playwright Larry Kramer points out, they also had no job, savings account, or passion. Other AIDS activists, including pioneering doctor Gabriel Torres, turned to meth too. In 2012, the New York Times hypothesized that major HIV activist Spencer Cox may have died from his drug struggle with crystal meth. Gay men suffer from more depression, and when a new medical cocktail allowed gay men to live with HIV in the mid-1990s, they stopped seeing sex as a gateway to death, a view they had held since the early 1980s. The NAAAS credits the problem to several issues. In England, gay men have even been throwing chemsex parties, where they fuck on meth and/or other drugs. Photo via Wikimedia Commons/RadspunkRadspunk.Īccording to the National Association of Addiction Specialists, gay males widely use crystal in urban cities, and the massive drug abuse has traveled to Eastern and western towns. Pure shards of methamphetamine hydrochloride, also known as crystal meth. (Bobby Driscoll, the child actor who voiced Peter Pan, died of heart failure after battling a severe drug addiction, but methblr gays probably aren't aware of this.) Former gay meth users worry the videos fetishize a massive drug problem that's already sexualized. One user even posted a drawing of Peter Pan, the twinky Walt Disney character, smoking meth. Some create DeviantArt-style drawing celebrating "crystal clouds," making the drug seem like something out of Fantasia. Methblr blogs make crystal meth seem fantastical. A video called "tumblr pnp" shows a guy getting a handjob while he smokes meth. A user named Fitslzlad posted a video called "Giving lad his first ever slam," and the videos have even crossed over to PornHub. "Me being slammed then bred," the user wrote under the image. In a recent post, Slamhunter reblogged a picture of a man bottoming for a muscular white guy who was injecting his arm with meth. One user named bbklynlation describes himself as "NSFW - (+) Barebacking Tina smokin Fist fucking watersporting perv pig and now boyfriend to a wonderful fellow pig from the Bx! Only in NEW YORK CITY! These are my favorites that depict mine and his kinky sexual side!" They use usernames like SlammedAngel, Smokeslut, and Slamhunter. The bloggers talk about meth so much, you could call their Tumblrs Methblrs. (As a gay juggalo once told me, gays prefer to call meth Tina because it gives the classy connotation of Tina Turner.) Many guys use terms made famous on Grindr, like "pnp" which stands for "party 'n' play," a.k.a. They discuss "slamming" (gay verb for doing party drugs such as, but not limited to, meth), "clouds" from meth smoke, and Tina.