Welcome to Part Two of How Sleaze Is Lived in America, a four-part series. In
last week’s installment, we heard from men and women who met their true loves
while shit-faced drunk. This week’s installment, Drug-Induced Sleazy Meetings,
features men and women who met their true loves while strung out on Ecstasy, LSD,
‘shrooms, crack, and smack. Before we begin, I’d like to mention that recreational
drug use, with the exception of alcohol, is bad for children and other living
things. It’s also illegal. Nothing about How Sleaze Is Lived in America: Drug-Induced
Sleazy Meetings should be construed as condoning or glamorizing drug use. Indeed,
illegal drugs are a dead-end street of addiction, poverty, despair, puffy eyes,
and death. Except, of course, in those rare instances when illegal drug use leads
straight to the altar.
I was working at a large club in a large city when my future boyfriend asked
if he...