Recently, a post praising use of weeds before intimate moments made me think on the phenomenon.
Intoxication, any sort of it, is akin to a self inflicted injury (read numbing here). Especially while intimate moments, one is taken for a ride by the intoxicant and he/she becomes a puppet/hostage in its hands. Whatever is done is done by the intoxicant, 'through' the bodies. Similar to doping, the performance is not of the human body but that of the drug, consumed only to make one less sensible. And we all know that such an athlete may, only wrongly, feel victorious only momentarily though, he isn't accepted as an actual winner.
Another consequence of intoxication is a gradual increase in demand, which, if not met, results in decreased, less than normal even, performance besides other withdrawal symptoms. Unfortunately, only those who don't know how to apply what we humans have been bestowed with, are attracted towards, and later trapped and often subsequently incapacitated, by such 'supports'. Strange, and horrible too, how could someone deliberately arrange to feel lesser of the most magnificent sensory experience entrusted to the human beings. That's possible out of gross ignorance only.
What would we call a person who craves to feel the rain but comes out wrapped in a #raincoat only in order to 'stay' there longer than his usual capacity, and no single raindrop actually touches his skin. Aren't feelings a subject to a conscious state of mind and body? An unconscious or semi-conscious person can't stand 'WITNESS'. As such, to feel the rain, one has to be out in the open without a cover.
