Table V.

Violence/aggression in the context of sex

Quote #	Speaker	Narrative
13	33-year-old Latina. MJ, alcohol at age 13; PCP, LSD, heroin by age 16; meth at age 20	[Did you ever, do you think that [meth] does make people violent? Or men, or women, or everyone, or … ?] No, the people that I was always around were never violent on it. They were more sexual, a little more sexual. Or, or just having a good time and stuff.
14	24-year-old White Alcohol, MJ at age 13; meth at age 16	It really does kinda do things to guys, like … I guess it does do things for women, but I don’t know. It just is really—it’s sick. It was really quite sick. I’ve had other guys that’ve gone for like hours and hours and hours [had intercourse for hours] and still like nothing [no orgasm], you know, where they’re like hurting and then that’s why I guess it starts to get a little rough, I mean you can see like, like a little bit of anger start to go where it’s like … [You mean they can’t, they can’t cum?] Yeah, and I actually had it with an ex of mine—he’s just like, ‘Come on, come on’ like—I’m like [saying], ‘It’s like really starting to hurt now.’ I mean it was ridiculous, you know what I mean? … For me it was always a little bit that had to do with some kind of attraction, you know what I mean? And this was a guy that I was like falling in love with, or so I thought, you know? And he’s like looking like he’s like gonna beat the crap out of me, you know, ‘cause he can’t [have an orgasm]. And it’s just like anger in his eyes, and I’m just like, whoa. So … it definitely could lead to dark places.
15	28-year-old Latina. Meth at age 18	[Was the sex itself ever violent?] No—violent? No, because we were both into it, you know, like we would, yeah, we would both, you know, be okay with it and stuff like that … Handcuffs, stuff like that.
16	31-year-old Latina. Meth, MJ, alcohol at age 12	I think I was mean when I was on meth, but not like violent. Not a violent mean, not, like I wanna kill anybody, or, or torture anybody and, but I do remember like my brother’s girlfriend saying that he would like to like, he would like to tie her up and do—and I, my baby’s dad would tie me up, too, sometimes, but I don’t, I don’t think it was like in a violent way. You know, I think it was more like oh, ‘cause this is, it gives me more power to have you in a certain way—tied up and bonded with th-, you know … [Yeah.] … that whole bondage thing, I think it’s a power thing. Yeah, I don’t, I don’t think it made me violent, anyways. Maybe it probably made him violent. But I think it’s just like their brain, the way their brain works and, and what’s in your unconscious mind and, but I don’t remember ever being violent on it.