MDMA has a variety of pro-social effects, such as increased friendliness and heightened empathy, yet there is a distinct lack of research examining how these effects might intertwine with a romantic relationship. This article seeks to compensate for this absence and explore heterosexual couples' use of MDMA through the lens of the boundaries they construct around these experiences. Three couple...
This chapter explores how the different expectations for men and women might be seen to constitute an affective inequality , and the repercussions of this for heterosexual couples who take MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine or ‘ecstasy’). Qualitative data from ten couple interviews conducted as part of a doctoral thesis are drawn on. The chapter begins with a literature review exploring...