Findings indicated that chemsex was associated with a positive gay identity gain, which explained the ambivalence participants’ expressed in maintaining a gay future without chemsex despite their awareness of negative consequences. This is significant both for understanding why chemsex pathways may prove attractive, but also why they may be so difficult to leave.
Gay men’s chemsex survival stories | Smith, V. and Tasker, Fiona | Birkbeck University of London | 2017
