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Re:Silicon Valley's Secretive, Orgiastic Side by empath75 on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @06:33PM (#16056945)
As someone who did a lot of ecstasy in the late 90s, I’m skeptical about how much actual sex is happening at these ecstasy fueled parties.

Back when I was going to ecstasy-fueled weekend-long after parties at peoples houses, there was a lot more talking, hugging and dancing happening than sex.

I think people who haven’t tried ecstasy have a really skewed idea about how people behave on it. Mostly you just want to listen to music and dance and talk. You often couldn’t have sex even if you wanted to.

Re:Silicon Valley's Secretive, Orgiastic Side by stcredzero on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @07:03PM (#16057123)
Back when I was going to ecstasy-fueled weekend-long after parties at peoples houses, there was a lot more talking, hugging and dancing happening than sex.

I only ever attended one party with MDMA. After I took a 1/2 tab, I emerged from the kitchen thinking to myself, "I'm going to try and give a massage to every woman in this living room!" I never made it past the cute med student who took the other 1/2 of the tab, and we both left the party with the illusion that we had just found our soul mates, then proceeded to have a 2 week relationship that suddenly evaporated.

I think that was 1999. It's confusing to talk about these things, because "ecstasy" or "E" means something very different today than what it referred to back then.

Re:Silicon Valley's Secretive, Orgiastic Side by empath75 on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @07:14PM (#16057191)
Afaik, ‘real’ ecstasy is still pure mdma, though obviously it’s sometimes adulterated. At least in the late 90s when we used test kits it was pure mdma that we were intending to buy.

Barring some actual test kit results, i wouldn’t take people’s self reports of what they’re taking as being reliable, because people’s response to mdma seems to change a lot with repeated use.

Re:Silicon Valley's Secretive, Orgiastic Side by stcredzero on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @07:22PM (#16057233)
Afaik, ‘real’ ecstasy is still pure mdma

Some young folks have tried to tell me that GHB == "ecstasy."