Taking Flight: Narratives, Logistics, and Risks of Chemsex Scenes in the Philippines

• Main Authors: Lasco, Gideon, Yu, Vincen Gregory
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2023
• Subjects: chemsex; risk; Philippines; drug war; Chemicals and Drugs; Medicine and Health Sciences; Other Chemicals and Drugs; Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences; Public Health
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/dev-stud-faculty-pubs/126; https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2023.2197426
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Chemsex – the use of specific; illicit substances to facilitate and enhance sexual encounters – has been documented extensively across the Global North using qualitative methodologies. Elsewhere; however; little is known about the phenomenon. Our article addresses this gap in the scholarly literatur...