Journo asks: 'Is it finally time to destigmatize' getting high on meth and hooking up with randos?

Twitchy.com ^ | 2/13/2023 | Sarah D

[NetAddicted]

We live in some pretty tumultuous times right now. So it’s especially important that we cling to some of the traditions that have brought us so much comfort and stability. Traditions like … chemsex:

Is it finally time to destigmatise chemsex? | @MichelleLhooq https://t.co/fvPp7ITb7S

— UnHerd (@unherd) February 13, 2023

Well, that depends … what the hell is “chemsex”? Let’s find out, shall we? Michelle Loocq, a “drugs + nightlife journalist,” writes at Unherd:

When people gather anonymously to talk about dancing in the shadow of drugs and sex, the energy in the room glows with a warm ball of white light. This feeling, I think, must be the immanence of healing. So much shame and secrecy is still attached to chemsex — a term that refers to using substances such as methamphetamine, GHB/GBL, and newer synthetic drugs such as 3-MMC while engaging in casual and often group sex. To evade public scrutiny, the act is often facilitated online using coded language (“Party and Play,” “PnP,” “Tina”) or even specific emojis (diamond, rocketship). Rarely is this subject discussed beyond hookup apps — and even less so outside the gay male scenes where the term originates from.

OK, so, if we’re understanding this correctly, chemsex is getting high on dangerous drugs and having unprotected sex, ideally with multiple people in a group setting. Why … why is it even a question if it should be destigmatized?

Is it time to destigmatize doing a ton of meth and having gay orgies? No. No it's not. pic.twitter.com/JmMAd7pzjX

— Grayson Quay ⚓️ (@hemingquay) February 13, 2023

As far as we’re concerned, it’s never time to destigmatize doing drugs and having sex with randos. But maybe that’s just how we were raised.

Hoocq concludes:

Untangling the ways drugs can modulate pleasure, dampen the voices of our inner critics, and foster a kind of dark intimacy is still such a sensitive topic — and the movement to destigmatise chemsex is, in many ways, still in its infancy. As a woman, I am also not the traditional demographic that is typically “allowed” to even discuss this concept, let alone in these expansive terms. In fact, Stuart has accused folks who use this term but do not identify as gay men of cultural appropriation.

But like a growing number of academics in the field, I believe this framework should include a wider population — because as the discussion in New York suggested, many other social groups already engage in these practices for similar reasons as gay or bisexual men, yet are under-represented in current research. Adopting a broader and more intersectional lens to the study of drug use and sex could allow a deeper understanding of how the dense mesh of governing power structures both shape and curtail our desires. It could also help us to understand how this practice reflects the historical and social contexts from which they emerge — including the pharmaceuticalisation of sexuality, contemporary culture of endless self-enhancement, and crisis of intimacy under neoliberal individualism.

That’s a lot of big words to say “Please don’t take me seriously or listen to me at all.”

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— Hvarl Redblade (@HvarlRedblade) February 13, 2023

Sometimes a conversation isn’t necessary. Because sometimes there’s no conversation to be had.

Thanks but we're full up on cursed degenerate nonsense at the moment pic.twitter.com/Et5ikRzDOo

— The Mercurian (@xerophagist) February 13, 2023

Usually if something is stigmatized, most people have heard of the thing (since the majority of people are who create a stigma), unlike "chemsex". But we should stigmatize it for the first time, thanks

— Duffyevsky ☦ 🇷🇺 (@TheIllegit) February 13, 2023

Yeah, we’re good with a stigma around chemsex.

In the meantime, just to be extra safe:

Send the meteor https://t.co/FIRuETB5VN

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) February 13, 2023

My response to that: pic.twitter.com/0E1RGxizHN

— AbsolutelyNotChar (@BiggsBriteliter) February 13, 2023

*** tags:CHEMSEX, DESTIGMATIZE, DRUGS, METH, SEX, UNHERD

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[NetAddicted]

OMG! Unbelievable that someone even asked this question. :(

[gr8eman]

So Walter White was the messiah?

[dsrtsage]

Some of the hottest, most level headed girls I know with the prettiest teeth are meth heads and the harassment they face in their sleeping bags at the park when all they want is to take a nice comfy nap at 2pm is heartbreaking

[BenLurkin]

“like a growing number of academics”

Oh...it’s okay...she’s an academic.

[SecondAmendment]

So the left adds "Brave New World" to their other societal operations manual, "Nineteen Eighty Four".

These people are an existential threat to Western Civilization and 2500+ years of progress.

[Skywise]

Hurr durr… we shuld support sin and debauchery and all aspekts of anti-civilization and live lyk animuls.

[Larry Lucido]

Opinions, sir?

[rlmorel]

LOL!

[Larry Lucido]

Oh, and autocorrect for Lazamataz is Lasagna Tax

[cgbg]

All meth heads need to be relocated to the twenty wealthiest zip codes—time for the elites to find out what they have done—up close and personal.

[Getready]

Many of those doing chemsex (especially injectable), every so often will soon be infected with different fast or slow killing viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, will get ill and die. Apparently some prions can be spread by air, contaminated surgical equipment, or transfusion.
It doesn’t matter if that behaviour is destigmatized or not.

[robel]

Is there an online poll on renaming this country Sodom or Gomorrah?

[SaxxonWoods]

Everybody wants the things they do to be OK.

[EEGator]

His stuff was top shelf.

[NorthMountain]

But like a growing number of academics in the field,

"Academics" ...

Yeah ... in exactly what academic discipline?

[Glad2bnuts]

I am thinking that this activity is covered in the Bible. You shall put them to death, so that their sins do not multiply and cover the entire Nation. The violent, the perverse and the drug and alcohol addicted should be erased from our society. If we really care about having a sane one that is.

Put such as these away, so that the young do not follow their ways.

[gundog]

I had no idea he was Italian.

[Boogieman]

Ed Buck votes “yes” on destigmatization.

[imabadboy99]

damn these leftists are sick.

Soddom and Gamorrah. I used to read about them and I just couldn’t understand how a society could be so sick. It just didn’t make sense. And now here we are with the same demonic sickness pervading our modern day society. It’s not even so much that these people engage in it, although that is sick and wrong. It is that these people are trying to encourage others to do so, and are trying to de-stigmatize it and normalize it. That’s what makes it truly demonic imo.

[imabadboy99]

And then the communist left will be demanding trillions of tax dollars in funding for STD / Aids research.