Does getting high make you a little gay? If so, you may just be a “highsexual.” The term, ensconced in Urban Dictionary since 2009, made its way onto two Reddit forums in recent weeks as a way to describe the alleged phenomenon of participating in sex with someone of the same gender or having same-sex fantasies when getting incredibly high. But while perhaps not common parlance, these two threads — “Can LSD make you temporarily gay?” and “Weed makes me temporarily gay. Anyone else?” — are example of a phenomenon that’s been around for awhile. It seems straight guys have wondered about “highsexuality” for a few years, given the plethora of online evidence. Are drugs the key to sexual fluidity in men?
Yeah, what an enormous mystery. Alcohol and drugs lower inhibitions, and people simply do what they always wanted to do but couldn’t because of their puritanical upbringing and the resulting inner self-censorship. Getting high doesn’t “make” anybody gay. They are gay already but afraid of acknowledging it.
It’s really sad when people can’t even allow themselves to fantasize freely without knocking out the inner censor with drugs. It’s not their fault, obviously, but it’s just tragic.
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“They are gay already”
That’s a very binary way of looking at it. I’d say they have a non-trivial capacity for sexual bonding with their own sex that they usually suppress for various reasons but when their inhibitions are lowered it’s less suppressed.
I tend to not believe in a gay/straight dichotomy. It’s probably true that a very small part of the population is 100% sexually and emotionally geared to one sex but there’s a lot of people who are more…. 80/20 or 70/30.
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Yes, everybody is completely bisexual before we get messed up. THis is very true.
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This is nothing new. Us queer folks have always had words for it depending on the substance. Weed is pretty low on the list of drugs that lead to queer encounters, the most impressive drug for bringing this out in people is MDMA. With just booze, it’s known as “barsexuality” or being a “two beer queer”.
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I sometimes wonder whether some of the weird-ass yankees I’ve had clashes with are closeted gays.
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Oh, c’mon, with a tantalising teaser like that, inquiring minds demand details. 🙂
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Maybe I am the closest thing to a masculine persona in a female body for them? And then they freak out.
In fact, though, most are so repressed they do not know if they are arthur or martha.
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After having been in Seattle for a while after quasi-legalisation of cannabis, I can say that “being high” doesn’t make most people gay, only more annoying …
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