Welcome to this most excellent web resource on drugs and sexuality. Compounds include those from your neighborhood pharmancy to those from your neighborhood drug dealer. This site receives no funding from drug companies or drug dealers, directly or indirectly. Its sole purpose is to report honestly and accurately on questions you're not likely to yell through the window to your local pharmacist.

Unfortunately, there appears to be little quality research on the interplay of drugs and sexuality. Much of what is reported is long on anecdote and short on science. This is just as true for legal drugs as for those that will land you in the slammer.

When evaluating the impact of drugs on sex, keep in mind that drugs can effect different people in different ways.

For instance, one woman might lubricate so much that she and her partner aren't getting enough friction during intercourse. Taking an over-the-counter antihistamine might decrease the amount of her natural lubrication just enough to improve her sexual satisfaction. For another woman, antihistamines can dry her out to the point of where intercourse becomes painful. Of course, she won't want to have sex at all if her sinuses are throbbing harder than her partner's penis, so it's beyond us why they don't package Sudafed and KY Personal Lubricant together!

One man might find the orgasm-delaying effects of certain antidepressants or opiates to decrease his sexual pleasure, while another man who has never been able to last longer than the Kitty Hawk's maiden flight may find these drugs to be the answer to his sexual prayers.

There are many situations where one person's sexual upper is another person's sexual downer. Or, with drugs like crystal meth, what starts as a sexual upper can become a sexual downer or have a Jekyl and Hyde effect. We will try to point out these nasty little contradictions as they apply to specific drugs or situations.

Often, it's not just the drug that you need to assess, but how long someone has been taking it, their overall life situation, the purity and dose of the drugs, whether the person is male or female, manic or depressed, and so on. The same drugs can have very different effects on people of different races and ethnic backgrounds. Also, it will probably be easier to chase down the effects of the prescription drugs that John is taking as opposed to the drugs that Mary gets at weekend raves, unless John forgets to mention his three nightly beers, lines of meth, or daily bong experience.

If you are in the healthcare professions, keep in mind the lesson that two wonderfully astute and elegant researchers from UCLA's department of Child Development learned when they were studying pregnant moms with drinking problems. While one researcher was inside the house interviewing the mother-to-be, the other would sneak around the back to check out the number of empty liquor bottles in the garbage cans. These researchers found that the garbage cans were much better tellers of the truth than the alcoholic moms-to-be, and this study focused on women living on the better side of town. The fact is, people often aren't aware of how much they are actually taking or doing.

This site is neither produced nor supervised by physicians or pharmacists. We occassionally make mistakes. This information is meant to help inform but not be medical advice. Use your health-care provider as a final source on all matters, especially on those regarding drugs.