In Praise of Pleasure

In Praise of Pleasure

Unabashed ravishment, whether from binge eating or drug use, makes those of us who strive for autonomous individuality deeply uncomfortable. In June 2024, an independent advisory panel for the FDA rejected MDMA-assisted therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder, in part because of this discomfort. One of the problems cited by the panel was that the researchers running the trials for the therapy didn’t report “adverse events.” Adverse events are…