From Heroin and Human Physiology:
Sexual drive and performance are depressed by prolonged heroin use. Impotence in men and menstual abnormalities (including a complete cessation of periods) are common symptoms of heroin addiction.
Physicians be damned, for mere tabloids now possess the authority to use rumour and supposition to diagnose addictions, ailments, and anything else the papers can pull out of their arses. Just imagine, a rock star actually having sex with a groupie. He most certainly must be a sex addict, right? Not bloody likely – especially in the case of Pete Doherty.
Nevertheless, the new chorus is that sex addict Doherty, based upon 21-year old Lara Laghi’s eight month old story, is on a 24/7 mission to get laid:
“Pete kept swigging away at a bottle of vodka. He looked wasted – his face and body all pasty white and spotty. But he still had enough energy to invite me back to his hotel.
“We fell onto his bed and had sex. It probably lasted no more than half an hour before Pete passed out.
“I can’t say the sex was great because of the state he was in. I doubt he can even remember it.
Yep. That has sex addict written all over it, but it also provides a nice contrast for this article from Daily Shite Mail, in which Lindi (aka “Lindy”) said that she and Pete “had great sex” just a few weeks ago. Of course, this proclamation comes from a former lover of Jared Leto and “rocker” Axl Rose, so she certainly isn’t a qualifier. Certainly, the experience failed to make a lasting impression on Pete Doherty, who was recently spotted yelling on a cell phone , “Where’s my piano? You better not have done anything with my piano?”
