Gay men need clear information about ‘chemsex’, not messages about morality | Marco Scalvini When health professionals and the media talk about gay sex as an emergency health issue, they may actually encourage risky behaviour.
In the past week the public has been alerted to “risky behaviours” among gay men in London. Triggered by an editorial in the BMJ, the media has been warning of the “dangers of chemsex”, an activity labelled an “increasing risk to public health”. While there is undoubtedly an issue here, we need a strategy for dealing with the dangers of chemsex that works, rather than one that appears to favour transmitting a moral message instead of offering straightforward information.
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