Team: Adrian Farrugia, Duane Duncan, Gemma Nourse and Nyssa Ferguson (Australian Research Centre in Intercourse, health insurance and community, Los Angeles Trobe University)

Kane Race’s (2015) article ‘“Party and play”: on the web hook-up products plus the emergence of PNP methods among gay males’ is an analysis that is generative of mediated sexual encounters including medication usage, or Party ‘n’ Enjoy (PNP) practices. This article traces the arrangement that is complex of, items and surroundings, together understood as ‘infrastructures’, that form these encounters together with types of sociality that emerge therein. Although the article has an expansive analysis of the infrastructures, we concentrate mainly on Race’s study of the part of medication consumption, generally speaking crystal methamphetamine and GHB (gamma hydroxybutyrate), in these techniques additionally the implications associated with analysis for health training.

The content comes from an’ that is‘insider-ethnography of changing contexts of HIV prevention in Sydney, Australia.

The wider research carries a dataset consists of findings, qualitative interviews and analysis of textual and material that is historical. In this piece, nevertheless, Race mainly works together information produced by their own participation within the culture that is sociosexual research. Continua a leggere