Вы держите в руках своеобразный арт-объект: это первая в мире книга, при печати которой использовались психоактивные вещества. Это символическое количество — 0,001 граммов вещества на 10 литров типографской краски; но тем не менее, книга «Секс, наркотики, бог» — первый наркотик, который можно купить в Украине легально.

Мы не призываем употреблять наркотики! А всего лишь призываем легализовать это явление, всемирная война с которым проиграна, и дальнейшая борьба только усугубляет это противостояние. Каждый сам может быть ответственен за свои поступки и решения, и не задача государства в это вмешиваться. Это касается и секс-работы, которая никуда не денется как явление, если общество будет его осуждать. Эпидемия ВИЧ не исчезнет сама по себе, если на нее закрывать глаза, а запрет или осуждение абортов не снизят их количество. Мы нажимаем на все болезненные точки современного общества, поднимаем все сложные вопросы, которые замалчиваются — рассматривая их с либеральной точки зрения — с точки зрения без- опасности для общества и свободы выбора для личности.

You are holding a kind of an art object in your hands: this is the first book for the printing of which psychoactive substances were used. This was a symbolic amount — 0.001 grams of a substance per 10 liters of printing ink; but nevertheless, this book is the first drug that can be bought in Ukraine legally.

We do not encourage you to use drugs! But we urge to legalize this phenomenon, the world war with which is lost, and further struggle only aggravates the confrontation. We are personally responsible for our actions and decisions, and the state shall not interfere with it. This also applies to sex work that will not go anywhere if society condemns it. The HIV epidemic will not disappear by itself if you turn a blind eye to it, as well as abortion ban will not reduce the number of abortions. We bring up all the painful topics and complex issues by setting them in the context of liberal paradigm — and the paradigm of public safety and freedom of choice for the individual.

I commend Krystyna Rivera and all colleagues, partners and friends who supported me and made their contribution to the creation of this book!

Is it possible that opposite points of view may peacefully coexist side by side? It appears that they may — if they are interpreted properly. And it is because this very diversity of views is a key characteristic of our reality. The world is diverse, and this book offers a piece of neutral territory which has no place for war and, instead, provides space for compromise which incorporates and acknowledges all points of view and all opinions, even those that appear to be diametrically opposite in their nature.

We live in the environment of humans that need and expect our actions to be motivated by things that are kind in their nature rather than evil. The world as we know it is overflowing with desires to shed blood, desires of revenge and desires to cause pain. Kindness has always been in tremendous shortage. At the same time love has always been a universal recipe that leads to disarmament and peaceful dialog at the roundtable. Sooner or later there will certainly come a moment when we are going to know that everything will change for better.

Any young man or woman who is falling in love feels that his or her loved one is the best person to ever live on this planet. And even though other people may see that the person in question, the object of affection, is a regular engineer or IT specialist, he or she is still perceived by the one in love as the most wonderful of all. I would not want the world to abide by illusions. But wouldn’t it be great if there were more kindness in this world?! Wouldn’t it be great if we did not have to make an effort to understand other people, especially those that have happened to be in very difficult life circumstances? If someone’s son started to use drugs and his mother views her son as a mere medical record and realizes that with this kind of life her son will never amount to anything good, she still wishes her son to be happy. She still believes with her whole heart that there will come a moment when her son will achieve happiness even if he is going to remain addicted to drugs, even if he will be attending a substitution therapy site. Deep down we all wish for the people we love to find their happiness and live their lives in happiness.

There is no limit to waiting for love and wishing of happiness to the ones we love. These waiting and wishing are never-ending. If someone is asked whether he or she is ready to wait endlessly for their loved ones to achieve happiness, it is always "Yes" that we hear in the answer.

There are barely any people out there who are ready to remain angry for long. And, indeed, it is a very tiresome activity. Just as there are barely any people out there who are ready to inflict pain onto others endlessly. It is a very traumatic process even for those inflicting pain.

I am confident that humanity and the world are evolving in such a way that sooner or later no pain is going to be inflicted on anyone neither by action nor by word of mouth.

In this book I would like to discuss various ways that people use to seek and achieve pleasure, about everything that happens to fall under category of sin. One of the main categories of morality that has to do with these considerations begins with the concept of God and people who do not believe in God.

To begin with, I would like to note that neither word „Atheism“ nor the word „Faithfulness“ appear to be moral and ethical characteristic of a person. There are many people among those who do not believe in existence of God and the doctrine of creation of world as a miracle, who abide by the highest standards of morality, education, humanness, tolerance and kindness. Atheism has not become a form of world perception that made these people inhumane. At the same time, in our history we may encounter many people who are deeply religious but whose deeds were so evil that it surpasses any comprehension and boggles people’s minds till this very day. And, as a rule, it is exactly by the doctrine of faith in God that these evil makers had justified all their evil deeds.

The concept of faith is a deeply intimate thing. It is the territory that is essentially cannot have any declarative explanation. Just as it is always individual choice of a person.

Classical definition of people as atheistic is based on the fact that they do not attend church or are not being sure about existence of God, does not transform them into animals. At the same time the fact that a person insists that he or she is a deeply faithful and regularly attends church doesn’t provide any guarantee that this person will abide by the highest moral standards of kindness and humaneness.

In fact, this person can be a criminal who does horrible and terrifying things. We have plenty of examples of corrupt politicians who have kept robbing their people and, at the same time, have attended church and kissed icons. Our history is full of assassinations that had been performed in the name of God and have no logical explanations.

I believe contemporary world will keep on erasing dividing lines between atheists and believers as we may observe appearance of other, new criteria of coexistence.

I believe that, in the first place, people want to live in society that is safe. Nobody wants to live in an environment where people’s houses are broken into while people are robbed and killed. And given all this we all move to a unified form of those postulates that make our world a safe place to live. And all people, irrespectively of whether they attend Muslim church, protestant church or prefer night clubs instead, they all want universal things. There are aspects that united all people — both atheists as well as believers that prefer either eastern or western religions.

Atheist in this sense appears to be outdated concept which will hardly remain a part of contemporary world. We all want to be side by side with people who do not have problems with their head.

Family is a fundamental value for every person. We come out of a certain family and then we move back to a family by building a family of our own. And, in essence, it is that part of our lives where personal traits and characteristics are developed. Formation of the right for respect — appears to me to be a sort of a „sail“ that propels us into the future. While all things negative developed by our children, by contrast, serve as an anchor that gets us stuck in the past. There is no need to go far to observe what has been said above — we live today in the environment of aggression which even though without guns and gas chambers as it was during WW II is still reaching its culmination.

If people believe that marriage happens to be inconvenient form of relationship, they can always bring this project to a halt, review it and change it the way they believe is appropriate. Thank God contemporary world provides a choice of various forms of relationships, various types of coexistence of two people.

The thoughts about initiation and building of family and search for ways or formats of living together appear to be that moment that indicates maturity that sooner or later is achieved by any person. But in any case the menu of choices for contemporary couples is much broader now than it has ever been before. I believe we will keep on evolving for a long time in our understanding of what freedom is all about, where it begins and where it ends, and this process will continue on and on. What is important is that we may observe the dynamics of this evolution and we may see that the world is not regressing. It develops further and further and geographical borders no longer matter as much as they used to before. Practically some territories by now have fully merged into the same system. And I think due to such merger and disappearance of borders the world will gradually gain more and more freedom in both technology and mentality. We will be moving toward greater freedom and the principles on which this freedom is based no matter what or at least toward that worldview in which freedom is the main cornerstone. And all the ethical and moral norms stem from this very freedom.

The youth that is experimenting and explores their sexuality with multiple partners is seeking, striving for pleasure. Social systems in their turn try to limit the number of sexual partners by offering the concept of marriage. However, there are different countries out there with different cultural context and their different ways in which they perceive and interpret everything that is happening in the world. But in all of these cases we have to understand that those are only public norms. And those norms have no relation to realities of life. Real life is different. And the issues of attraction and repulsion are so volatile that people often fall from one end to another.

The model of family as a unit of society, however, will remain for a long time — and its main function consists in serving as an example, a role model for children thus propelling humanity to further replication and progress.

Sex exists in this world as a payment instrument. Throughout history there have been many people who used sex as the means of getting promoted in their careers, for promotion of their interests, for revenge and for pleasure. It is the unit of goods and services exchange used by everybody. And there are many variants of exchange rates — some people buy and sell pleasure; some people buy or sell career growth by entering into sexual relationships with those people who make decisions. Our society has incorporated these things into its functioning long ago and the way it all works is clear and evident for everybody.

Sex industry has been around in this world for thousands of years. The only difference here is that its „cash registers“ have different systems of payment. A