What is it like to orgasm on psilocybin? 🍄 ✨🎢
An Exploration of Microdosing & Masturbating
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Introduction 🧐
I recently combined two activities that are not usually done at the same time: microdosing and masturbating. Or, as my friend Erica described it: putting the “o” in “shrooms”. Let me explain how I got here.
A couple of months ago, I got my hands on a psilocybin tincture. It was given to me by one of my psychotherapists (@psy.lum), and it contains psilocybe cubensis, one of the most common strains of magic mushrooms. She prescribed it to help me deal with my chronic anxiety and depressing things we were processing from my childhood (yikes).
Weeks later, I mentioned that I was taking psilocybin to my inspiring friend Anna Lee, the founder of the smart vibrator company Lioness. As we talked about the new era of orgasm data, suddenly, we had an idea. What if I took some psilocybin and recorded my self-pleasuring sessions using the Lioness? How might this psychedelic compound found in over 200 species of fungi impact the stimulation, pleasure, or experience of my orgasms? What might we be able to learn? With this new sexperiment on the cards, there was only one thing left to do: I had to flick the bean for science!
My Psilocybin Protocol 📋
The psilocybin itself comes in a small glass bottle with a squishy blue cap. I started taking it and followed the protocol my therapist sent me below: four droplets on the tongue every morning when I wake up (consumed with citrus fruit juice if I want an enhanced effect) for four days, followed by three days off.
What was taking psilocybin like for you?
I will be honest here and say that, generally speaking, the psilocybin protocol was not working well for me. I was not supposed to drink coffee while following the protocol, which altered my daily routine in a way I didn’t want it to. Combined with the pressure of client work, this left me feeling more stressed and overwhelmed than anything else. I am a woman with a lot of stuff to do, so the prospect of losing control just that little bit each weekday morning by giving myself the psilocybin tincture made me feel like my life was out of balance. While I was taking psilocybin, I missed feeling mentally sound enough to face my most pressing work challenges.