Dallas Bragg compares chemsex to eating forbidden fruit, a moment where shame lifts and good and evil become visible. He argues that if chemicals can erase shame and elevate consciousness, shadow work in recovery could sustain that state naturally and permanently.
I call it like when you do chemsex, it's like Adam and Eve taking a bite of the forbidden fruit. All of a sudden they see good and evil, right? It's like we instantly cross over into— so many men say this, this is what I've been looking for my entire life. I said it, right? It was like this, this weight of the world is lifted, right? And all this shame and all this rejection and all the stuff that we were living with is instantly gone, we feel like, right? We think. And so there are states of consciousness that I think we get in chemsex that gives us, to me, an incentive of, wow, if I can feel that way chemically induced, imagine what it would be like if I actually worked for it and found it naturally and it lasted. It's sustainable.
