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Why we need substances to access our own joy

I love dancing but only when I am drunk because that is the only time I feel free enough to move my body without self-consciousness.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Shame about physical expression can make chemical disinhibition feel necessary for embodied pleasure.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Pleasure and its examined life?”

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