Party-n-Play and online information and communication technologies: A socio-linguistic perspective

Souleymanov, Rusty; Brennan, David J.; Logie, Carmen H.; Allman, Dan; Craig, Shelley L.; Halkitis, Perry N.

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“…Previous research with SMM provides evidence that drug use and sexual behaviour may be linked in a variety of ways. For example, drug use may serve to facilitate sexual interactions (e.g., Mullens et al., 2010, 2011), increase perceived emotional closeness with a sexual partner (Starks et al., 2015) or be associated with participation in specific sexual communities (e.g., Bourne et al., 2015; Souleymanov et al., 2021). Failure to address sex as a context and outcome may diminish the relevance of drug use interventions for SMM (Dellucci & Starks, 2022).…”

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Clients' perceptions of motivational interviewing with couples: A qualitative examination of male couples' statements to counsellors in session

Starks,

Cruse,

Kyre

et al. 2023

Couns and Psychother Res

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BackgroundThe past two decades have seen expanding interest in the application of motivational interviewing (MI) with couples. Thus far, the literature detailing the development of MI with couples has focused primarily on elucidating counselling processes and techniques or on evaluating intervention effects. To date, no published studies have examined client perceptions of the counselling process in MI with couples.MethodsThis study involved qualitative analysis of 55 sessions from 24 couples (48 individuals) who received short (three‐session) courses of MI with couples in the context of a randomised controlled trial. All participants identified as cisgender male and were 18 or older. In each couple, at least one partner was aged 18–29, HIV negative and reported drug use in the past 30 days.ResultsAnalysis revealed that client couples attributed the benefits of MI with couples to expectancy‐related effects (merely structuring time to talk) and common factors (the presence of the counsellor as a non‐judgmental observer). Clients also conveyed appreciation for techniques and activities that enhanced dyadic functioning through communication skill building and the identification of shared values. Finally, clients appreciated the opportunity to discuss drug use and sexual behaviour in an integrated way.DiscussionFindings indicated the utility of counsellor‐delivered behavioural interventions. They also align with recent formulations of the counsellor's role in MI with couples and the introduction of facilitating dyadic functioning as a distinct process. Finally, they highlight the potential value of training counsellors to address the intersection of drug use, sexual risk and sexual pleasure in sessions. These dimensions of practice receive inconsistent attention across counselling training programme curricula.

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Clients' perceptions of motivational interviewing with couples: A qualitative examination of male couples' statements to counsellors in session

Starks,

Cruse,

Kyre

et al. 2023

Couns and Psychother Res

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“…In their recent article, Souleymanov et al (2020) identify discourses of selfregulation and risk-management in discussions of chemsex, and tie this rhetoric of self-management to Foucault's notion of governmentality. In doing so, they suggest that the 'sexual sociality among gay and bisexual men who PNP' is invested in a culture of 'neoliberal individualism' (16).…”

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“…Not judging, but like, it is your choice. – NickIn their recent article, Souleymanov et al. (2020) identify discourses of self-regulation and risk-management in discussions of chemsex, and tie this rhetoric of self-management to Foucault’s notion of governmentality.…”

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Fucking with homonormativity: The ambiguous politics of chemsex

Mowlabocus

2021

Sexualities

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One would not typically think of chemsex as a practice structured by the same political ideology that spawned ‘the new homonormativity’. For one thing, the gay press (a key mediator of homonormative thinking) has spilt much ink demonizing both the practice and practitioners of chemsex. Chemsex is framed in opposition to the ‘good gays’ that appear on same-sex wedding invitations or in advertisements for furniture stores or travel companies. Meanwhile, scholars have identified the ways in which chemsex embodies a response to both the political-economic landscape of neoliberalism, and the dominant model of homosexuality. From this perspective, chemsex appears antithetical to the political-economy of late capitalism, and to homonormativity. Building on critical discussions of this sexual practice, this article maps the complicated political terrain in which chemsex operates. Drawing on in-depth interviews with active and former practitioners, I suggest that chemsex occupies an ambivalent position in relation to the politics of homonormativity.

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“…Narrowing down on that relationship between chemsex imaginaries and queer identities allows us to better understand histories of sexualised drug use amongst gay men in a more holistic manner as part of the history of a subculture, that is, of a cultural formation that is marked by a “set of shared discourses, social languages, values and ideologies” (Souleymanov et al., 2020: 17) as well as by specific meaningful rituals of drug consumption that can be traced back to at least the early years of the AIDS epidemic (Frederick and Perrone, 2014; see also Race, 2009). As Frederick and Perrone (2014) have argued, one of the biggest failures of the U.S. “drug war” is that it has repeatedly failed to approach drug use through a subcultural framework, therefore ignoring the role of drugs in shaping the social imaginaries and, consequently, the self-conceptions of users.…”

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Chemsex cultures: Subcultural reproduction and queer survival

Florêncio

2021

Sexualities

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“Chemsex” emerged in the 21st century as the gay and bisexual male practice of taking drugs during sexual encounters in order to modulate pleasures, promote endurance, and expand the temporalities of sex. Yet, while the term has come to prominence at a historical juncture when the introduction of antiretroviral drugs, locative dating apps, online pornography, and gentrification all contributed to the popularisation and mediation of the practice, the history of sex on drugs among gay men is longer than that. In this article, I draw from that history, as well as from wider critical histories and anthropologies of drug use in order to explore the subcultural significance of sexualised drug use amongst queer folk. If, as Bourdieu argued, the hegemony of the ruling classes is sustained by forms of economic, social, and cultural capital accumulation and reproduction, I build on scholarship on subcultural and post-subcultural studies to frame chemsex as a practice of subcultural reproduction that connects contemporary gay and bisexual men across generations, ensuring the survival of their cultures and subjectivities. In so doing, I focus on chemsex’s potential as a life-affirming cultural practice, one that can ensure the symbolic and even material survival not only of the men who engage in it, but also of the subcultures and subcultural histories within which they locate themselves every time they decide to “party and play.”

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Party-n-Play and online information and communication technologies: A socio-linguistic perspective

Cited by 6 publications

References 56 publications

Clients' perceptions of motivational interviewing with couples: A qualitative examination of male couples' statements to counsellors in session

Clients' perceptions of motivational interviewing with couples: A qualitative examination of male couples' statements to counsellors in session

Fucking with homonormativity: The ambiguous politics of chemsex

Chemsex cultures: Subcultural reproduction and queer survival

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