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Why women doesn't involve in serious with psychedelics?

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albien5 said: Why women doesn't involve in serious with psychedelics?

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albien5 said:

Why women doesn't involve in serious with psychedelics?

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You probably can't ask that question here and get an accurate answer.

1.  Most of the Shroomery members are male, which means their answers would be speculation.

2.  I assume most women here have some interest in psychdelics, making them biased.

If you want a better answer survey women who aren't interested in psychedelics and let them tell you.  Unless, of course, you have a special meaning for the word 'serious'.

And how is this question philosophical or spiritual? 

Veritas said:

I'd be reluctant to trip with someone of either sex who has abdicated responsibility for their own experiences.  I think that this is just as common among men as it is among women, though it may be demonstrated differently by the sexes. 

My experiences with psychedelics have ALL been great.  In fact, I'm more likely to be the one doing the calming and centering when I trip with others.  I enjoy salvia very much, though it seems to be too intense and "freaky" for most of the men I've talked to about it.  Few of them want to try it more than once.

Of course, I would fit into the category of a "feminist who demands equality between the sexes," and I define myself as human before female.  I doubt whether one's XX or XY chromosomes make them more or less suited to be a psychonaut.  As Markos mentioned, individual personality traits are much more important than whether you are an "innie" or an "outie."

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• Among young adults, more males than females report using any illicit drug during the prior
year (35% versus 29%). Males have higher annual prevalence rates for nearly all of the
specific illicit drugs—with ratios greater than 2 for steroids and inhalants. For example,
among the 19- to 30-year-olds, steroids were used by 0.6% of males versus 0.2% of females
during the prior 12 months. (See Table 4-1.)

• All forms of cocaine were used in the past year by more males than females (19- to 30-yearolds).
Annual cocaine use was reported by 8.7% of the males and 5.0% of the females, crack
use by 1.6% of the males and 0.9% of the females, and other cocaine use by 7.8% of the
males and 4.7% of the females.

• Other large gender differences among the 19- to 30-year-olds are found in daily marijuana
use (6.3% for males versus 3.3% for females in 2004), daily alcohol use (7.6% versus 2.2%),
and occasions of drinking five or more drinks in a row in the prior two weeks (47% versus
28%). This gender difference in occasions of heavy drinking is even greater among young
adults than among 12th graders, where it is 34% for males versus 24% for females.

• MDMA (ecstasy) use is only slightly higher among males than among females in the young
adult sample overall (annual prevalence 3.5% versus 2.8%, respectively).

• The use of narcotics other than heroin is fairly close, at 9.9% annual prevalence for males
vs. 7.3% for females. Use of Vicodin, one of the most widely used drugs in the class, is also
fairly close (10.8% versus 7.1%). There is a larger gender contrast for OxyContin (annual
prevalence of 3.9% for males versus 2.0% for females).

• The use of amphetamines, which is now about equivalent among males and females in high
school, is also fairly similar for both genders in this post-high school period (annual
prevalence of 6.1% versus 5.3%, respectively).

• Crystal methamphetamine (ice) is used by small, and roughly similar, percentages of both
genders (1.8% annual prevalence for males versus 1.2% for females).

• LSD use by males is over three times that of females (1.3% annual prevalence for males versus 0.4% for females).

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• LSD use by males is over three times that of females (1.3% annual prevalence for males versus 0.4% for females).

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This is telling a lot.

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Wiccan_Seeker said:

Indeed this is telling a lot! one in four users is a woman, but only one in ten shroomerites is one. Why are they underrepresented here?

Same with gays. Psychedelics are much more prevalent under gays thasn straights, yet aside from myself and a few other token homos theres barely any on our site.

Trippers over 30? Too few of them here.

The shroomery isn't a representative population is what I'm saying.

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guruu said:

Wiccan_Seeker said:

Indeed this is telling a lot! one in four users is a woman, but only one in ten shroomerites is one. Why are they underrepresented here?

Same with gays. Psychedelics are much more prevalent under gays thasn straights, yet aside from myself and a few other token homos theres barely any on our site.

Trippers over 30? Too few of them here.

The shroomery isn't a representative population is what I'm saying.

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I think these statistical discrepancies have their source in the people that use the internet the most, which is younger males usually.

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