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New gay trend "Chemsex parties" has reached Sweden
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Decadence. Chemsex parties, where people can spend days in line with being tall and having sex with different partners, is today a well-known phenomenon in the world's big cities. Now the phenomenon has grown strongly in Stockholm.
Chemsex party in London (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Chemsex is a phenomenon that is very common in the gay world and means that gay men gather at parties where they take drugs and have unprotected sex with a variety of partners. Sometimes the parties last for several days.
Mattias Isacsson , 40, has seen the phenomenon explode in several large cities and now that it is growing big in Stockholm he wants to warn others of the risks.
- Three of my absolute best friends have died from this in the past two years. It's really scary, he says.
Chemsex is today a well-known phenomenon in cities such as Amsterdam, Berlin and Moscow, as well as in traditional "gay destinations" such as Ibiza.
Although many of the substances can cause one to lose both judgment and control, many are actively looking for apps like Grindr for specific tags or code words to find partners who have drug-affected, and often anonymously and unprotected, sex with.
In London, where just over one-eighth of all gay men today live with HIV, chemsex is now seen as a serious problem.
Typical drugs in the chemsex context are GHB, GBL, methamphetamine and (less commonly in Sweden) mephedrone. These are substances that make you feel more horny and become more uninhibited.
- A dangerous combination in what already constitutes a risk group for sexually transmitted diseases. In the UK and Spain, for example, new research shows the links between chemsex and HIV, says Emil Briones Ahlén , who is the curator and project manager for Sweden's first chemsex reception recently opened.
Briones Ahlén believes that factors such as increased travel and easier access to drugs via the Internet have contributed to increased drug use in the gay circles.
In addition to call support, chemsex reception will offer training courses for healthcare providers and players such as nightclubs, bars and sauna clubs, among other things in identifying and managing overdoses.
On the information
page Sexperterna you write about chemsex:
Drugs have been part of the [gay] community for decades. How common and exactly which drugs and how these drugs were taken has obviously changed over time. But it is clear that we are seeing a rapid change right now ... Often, the drugs are taken in conjunction with sex or a night out to enhance the feeling and be more uninhibited than usual.
Experience from the UK shows that people who have chemsex often get drug-induced hallucinations and psychoses. The risk of overdoses is great, as you must always take more to achieve the same effect.
In London, the number of deaths due to drugs in connection with chemsex has increased significantly. In Sweden, there are no sure statistics yet, but according to several analysts, the phenomenon of chemsex parties is growing very quickly, especially in Stockholm right now.
Common to the authorities and aid organizations in both the UK and Sweden is that the drugs are seen as the problem itself, not the sexual way of life.