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An object-oriented analysis of social apps, syringes and ARTs within gay Taiwanese men’s chemsex practices

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posted on 2024-04-15, 00:45 authored by P Huang, SC Du, SWW Ku, CW Li, Adam BourneAdam Bourne, C Strong
Critical drug studies explore the discursive and material dimensions of sexualised drug use to overcome individualised and often pathologising notions such as risk, safety, responsibility and pleasure. This article uses an object-oriented approach—following the use and flow of social apps, syringes and antiretroviral therapy (ART)—to analyse gay and bisexual Taiwanese men’s drug practices. Interview data from fourteen men are used to articulate how objects were brought into gay and bisexual men’s chemsex repertoire in ways that shaped individuals’ safe-sex communication, intimacy maintenance and stigma negotiation. An object-oriented approach scrutinises risk, pleasure and identities in assemblages of the human and nonhuman, and can help identify new opportunities for implementing health promotion interventions and policies.

Funding

National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan (grant number: MOST111-2410-H-002-261-MY2).

History

Publication Date

2024-04-01

Journal

Culture, Health and Sexuality

Volume

26

Issue

4

Pagination

497 - 512

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

ISSN

1369-1058

Rights Statement

© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.

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