Table 5.
Sexual enhancements and impairments participants endorse about their female partners during their most recent sexual encounter
| Any Drug (n = 168) |
Heroin (n = 43) |
Stimulants (n = 95) |
Cannabis (n = 48) |
Benzos (n = 23) |
Alcohol (n = 96) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | |
| Enhancements | ||||||
| Increased | ||||||
| Desire | 125 (74.0) | 27 (67.9) | 72 (75.8) | 39 (81.3) | 15 (65.2) | 79 (82.3)*** |
| Lubrication | 106 (65.4) | 25 (62.5) | 62 (68.1) | 32 (68.1) | 17 (77.3) | 63 (70.0) |
| Sensation | 114 (67.5) | 25 (58.1) | 64 (67.4) | 31 (64.6) | 15 (65.2) | 66 (68.8) |
| Decreased | ||||||
| Social inhibition | 87 (51.5) | 26 (60.5) | 45 (47.4) | 25 (52.1) | 20 (87.0) *** | 44 (45.8) |
| Sexual inhibition | 115 (68.0) | 31 (72.1) | 63 (66.3) | 33 (68.8) | 21 (91.3) | 67 (69.8) |
| Delayed orgasm | 65 (38.5) | 20 (46.5) | 34 (35.8) | 18 (28.4) | 11 (47.8) | 34 (35.4) |
| Sex more tolerable | 114 (67.9) | 31 (72.1) | 68 (72.3) | 28 (58.3) | 20 (87.0) | 65 (67.7) |
| Impairments | ||||||
| Decreased | ||||||
| Desire | 32 (18.9) | 14 (32.6) *** | 20 (21.1) | 6 (12.5) | 4 (17.4) | 17 (17.7) |
| Lubrication | 30 (18.5) | 11 (27.5) | 20 (22.0) | 5 10.6) | 1 (4.5) | 14 (15.6) |
| Sensation | 34 (20.1) | 14 (32.6) | 20 (21.1) | 7 (14.6) | 5 (21.7) | 16 (16.7) |
| Dysorgasmic | 44 (26.0) | 15 (34.9) | 24 (25.3) | 13 (27.1) | 6 (26.1) | 22 (22.9) |
| Painful intercourse | 17 (10.5) | 7 (17.5) | 12 (13.29) | 3 (6.4) | 0 (0.0) | 9 (10.0) |
***
p ≤.008, vs. all other substance categories.