Understanding how gay men construct ‘good’ chemsex participation using Critical Discursive Psychology

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dc.citation.volumeLatest Articles
dc.contributor.authorHealy-Cullen S
dc.contributor.authorShanley A
dc.contributor.authorNoone C
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-21T01:42:15Z
dc.date.available2024-10-21T01:42:15Z
dc.date.issued2024-01-23
dc.description.abstractResearch to date has focused on the potential issues arising from chemsex and often seeks to uncover what is ‘wrong’ with those who are motivated to engage in chemsex. Critical chemsex studies reaches beyond this harm-orientated focus and instead adopts a social justice approach that recognises chemsex participants as legitimate sexual citizens. The present study – comprising eight interviews with gay men living in Ireland – is situated within this critical research praxis. Using a critical discursive psychology framework, our analysis demonstrates how participants draw on various interpretative repertoires to discursively negotiate chemsex identities in a bid to position themselves in a culturally intelligible manner. Participants deployed three key repertoires, centred around (i) harm, (ii) essentialism, and (iii) ethics. These repertoires are deployed in an interweaving manner to ultimately construct a dynamic, hierarchal continuum of chemsex participants – from flourishing, to flailing. Our analysis demonstrates how chemsex participants construct ‘other’ chemsex users as ‘flailing’ towards the bottom of the continuum by mobilising repertoires that draw upon prevailing moralistic notions of ‘good’ sexual citizenship. We argue that the mainstream construction of chemsex as inevitably harmful is restrictive and produces a deficit understanding of chemsex participants, and discuss the possibilities for discursively reimagining chemsex participation.
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dc.edition.edition2024
dc.identifier.citationHealy-Cullen S, Shanley A, Noone C. (2024). Understanding how gay men construct ‘good’ chemsex participation using Critical Discursive Psychology. Psychology and Sexuality. Latest Articles.
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/19419899.2024.2308009
dc.identifier.eissn1941-9902
dc.identifier.elements-typejournal-article
dc.identifier.issn1941-9899
dc.identifier.urihttps://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/71781
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherInforma UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
dc.publisher.urihttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19419899.2024.2308009
dc.relation.isPartOfPsychology and Sexuality
dc.rights(c) 2024 The Author/s
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 4.0
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en
dc.subjectChemsex
dc.subjectharm reduction
dc.subjectgay men
dc.subjectsexual health
dc.subjectdrug use
dc.titleUnderstanding how gay men construct ‘good’ chemsex participation using Critical Discursive Psychology
dc.typeJournal article
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