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

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ID15099355
AuthorsPoyao Huang (0000-0002-3319-5145, National Taiwan University, corresponding author), Sih-Cheng Du (Taiwan Nurses Association), Stephane Wen-Wei Ku (0000-0001-7399-5852, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Taipei City Hospital Renai Branch, Taipei, Taiwan), Stephane Wen‐Wei Ku (Taipei City Hospital), Chia-Wen Li (0000-0002-4834-5935, Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan), Amanda Bourne (0000-0001-5299-8835, Australian Research Centre in Sex Health and Society, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia), Catherine Strong (0000-0002-2934-5382, National Cheng Kung University)
Year2024
Volume26
Issue4
Pages497-512
Publication date2024-04-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCulture Health & Sexuality (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1369-1058 • E-ISSN: 1464-5351
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13691058.2023.2228859
PMID37435820
OpenAlexW4383998878
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited46

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

Art · Homosexuality · Negotiation · Pleasure · Psychological intervention · Psychotherapist · Queer · Repertoire · Sociology · Gender Studies · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Social Psychology

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