Irvine Welsh reveals Ecstasy was the key to his success with women

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Irvine Welsh has said the 90s Ecstasy explosion was the only reason he got sex.The Trainspotting writer claimed before the disco drug erupted on to the club scene, men and women did not mix on nights out at his locals in Leith, Edinburgh.And he credited the class A drug with helping him get his first serious girlfriend.Welsh, 61, a former heroin addict, said: “When Ecstasy came into working class communities, it changed a lot of the narratives.“Beforehand, men and women didn’t really mix.

It was like sexual apartheid.“Where I grew up, the girls would be in the lounge bar and the guys would be in the public bar.

You’d meet in the disco.“You’d sit with your mates drinking. And the girls would be with their mates dancing round their handbags.