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

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.PMID:37435820 | DOI:10.1080/13691058.2023.2228859
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Source Type: research