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- Trust is the Police - Popo [ Not good }
- The spectrum
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- Equality Act 2010
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- Introduction
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- The Casey Review and Report
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- Understanding hate crime statistics for London
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- LGBT+ Independent Advisory Group
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- 17-24-30 no to hate crime campaign
- National LGB&T Partnership
- Public Health England
- Part of the Picture
- NEPTUNE
- Out of Your Mind
- Hate crime: England and Wales, 2015-2016
- Drug misuse 2013/ 14
- 2017 Drug Strategy
- The Future of HIV Services in England
- Faith and religion
- Churches, organisations and groups
- Conversion therapy
- LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH
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- What makes us gay?
- Doubt and uncertainty
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- Why do I want to come out?
- Coming out to yourself
- Coming out stories
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- The end of coming out?
- Out and proud people
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- Your doctor and dentist
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- Coming out in the Gypsy Roma Traveller communities
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- Homophobia
- Writing about this isn't easy
- Internalised homophobia
- Bullying in school
- Heteronormativity
- The thing about labels...
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Men Chapters
- MEN
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- Polari
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- HOOK-UP SAFER
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- Being assertive
- Getting older
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- MONEY AND DEBT
- Gay men in prison
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Men Contents
- Limerence
- 'The UK porn block'
- Money and debt
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- Help and support
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- Help us make this website better
- About this section
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- Julian and Sandy
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- Which app?
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- Center for Humane Technology
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- Rightly
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- Stuff you can't unsee
- Friends
- Tips for finding and making friends
- Value most, like least
- London
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- Be healthy on the inside
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- Our road map
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- Types
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- He's a bastard!
Body Chapters
Body Contents
- Your GP and dentist
- NHS 111
- Your doctor, dentist, optician and sexual health
- Greater London Services Map
- What other people say
- Mental health matters
- Mental health support directory
- Finding a counsellor or therapist
- Mental health apps
- Gay Liberation Front (GLF)
- Death and dying
- Bereavement and grief
- COVID-19
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- Information and advice
- Your mental health and COVID-19
- COVID-19 trackers and statistics
- COVID-19 Symptom Study App
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- Popular topics and icon codes
- Help us make this website better
- About this section
- Complementary therapies
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- Homeopathy
- Meditation
- Massage
- Osteopathy
- Reflexology
- Shiatsu
- Tai chi
- Yoga
- Your A-Z guide to activities and groups
- Keeping a routine
- A smörgåsbord of stuff to do
- Helpline support
- London LGBT+ mental health support
- Mental health organisations and other resources
- LGBT+ People and COVID-19
- Self esteem
- Loneliness
- Depression
- Antidepressants
- Suicide and suicidal thoughts
- Stress, anxiety and depression
- Stress and anxiety
- Mindfulness
- Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- Body dysmorphia
- Books on mental health and wellbeing
- LGBT+ mental health news articles and reports
- Relaxation short films (experimental)
- Sleep
- REM, NREM and dreaming
- Can’t sleep, won’t sleep
- A good night's sleep
- Sleep and recreational drugs
- Sleep info and resources
- Our relationship with food
- Eating disorder myths
- Eating disorder facts
- What the body needs
- A balanced mix of foods
- Calories
- Food labelling
- A little bit about fats
- A little bit about salt
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- A little bit about fibre
- Nutrition tips
- Your heart
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- Starting exercise
- Choosing your exercise
- Getting more adventurous
- Staying motivated
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- Injuries, straining and illness
- Hair
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- Eyes
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- Basics of anatomy
- Cock design
- Cock size and shape
- Curved penis
- Foreskin
- Smegma (dick cheese)
- Washing dick
- Erections
- Impotence (getting it up, or not)
- Piss (pee, urine)
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- Prostate gland
- Teeth and the mouth
- Mouth and throat
- End to beginning
- Stomach
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- Large intestine
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- Shitting
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- Problems and complications
- Ball checkups and testicular cancer
- Prostate cancer and sex
- Cancer
- Skin check-up
- Skin
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- Feet
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Sex Chapters
Sex Contents
- Sex calories counted
- Sex workers
- Central London Action on Sexual Health (CLASH) and Sexual Health on Call (SHOC)
- National Ugly Mugs
- The Global Network of Sex Work Projects
- Sex Worker Advocacy and Resistance Movement (SWARM)
- Popular topics and icon codes
- Sex and doing it
- Help us make this website better
- Sex and consent
- Support
- The Havens
- Marco, Eli and Nigel
- More about sex and consent
- Top and bottom
- Bottom shaming
- About this section
- Hanky codes
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- Testosterone
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- Erogenous zones
- Fetishes
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- Kissing
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- Noise
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- Sex toys and dildoes
- Douching
- Side
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- Bareback
- Watersports
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- BDSM
- Saline injections (balls)
- Scat
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STI Chapters
- STIs
- About sexually transmitted infections
- Reducing risks
- Symptoms
- STI statistics
- STI self-test kits
- PREP,PEP, and DOXYPEP
- Sexual health check ups
- Sexual health services listings
- Sexual health service cuts
- HPV VACCINATION
- MPOX
- Greater London Services Map
- Condoms
- Lubricants
- Antibiotics
- HIV
- HIV stigma
- HIV organisations and campaigns
- UK HEALTH SECURITY AGENCY
- HIV and the law, and human rights
- HIV and AIDS history
- Hepatitis
- Sexually transmitted infections A-Z
STI Contents
- HPV
- HIV organisations, campaigns and support groups
- MPOX
- UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA)
- Please read me first
- HIV and human rights
- National AIDS Trust
- NAM aidsmap (Closed)
- HIV Commission
- Positive East
- GMI Partnership
- Terrence Higgins Trust
- The Love Tank
- Positively UK
- GMFA (Closed)
- One Voice Network
- Spectra (London)
- Plus Health
- Africa Advocacy Foundation
- Metro Charity
- Avert
- UK Community Advisory Board (UK-CAB)
- Yorkshire MESMAC
- TheBody (USA)
- Children's HIV Association (CHIVA)
- The Food Chain
- International HIV Partnerships (IHP)
- European Testing Week
- Fast track cities London
- Do It London
- Eurasian Coalition on Male Health (ECOM)
- APCOM
- MPact Global Action
- Youth Stop AIDS
- National HIV Story Trust
- Graphic Communication
- HIV story project
- LGBT+ rights and HIV and sexual health
- More
- Popular topics and icon codes
- London boroughs
- United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland
- Sexual Health London
- SH:24 (outside London)
- Antibiotics
- HIV and the law
- Understanding HIV and AIDS
- HIV testing
- HIV and AIDS History
- World AIDS Day
- Silence = Death
- ACT UP
- AIDS Memorial Quilts (UK and USA)
- We Rage On
- AIDES
- Books
- Killer in the village, BBC Horizon (1983)
- "Don't die of ignorance" AIDS campaign
- Help us make this website better
- Hepatitis
- Hepatitis C and chemsex
- News and articles
- Statistics and trends
- Sexual health service cuts
- Sign the petition
- Sexual health service survey
- More
- Greater London Services Map
- About this section
- If you think you have a STI
- Sexual health clinics
- Finding a clinic
- Confidentiality
- When you arrive
- The check-up and consultation
- Surveys, studies and trials
- Treatment
- Telling sexual partners and contact tracing
- The service you can expect
- Saying thank you and making complaints
- Wonders of slippiness
- Water-based lubricants (for use with condoms)
- Silicone-based lubricants
- Oil-based lubricants
- Crisco disco and other notes
- Using condoms
- From tortoise shell to latex
- Stronger condoms
- Nonoxnol-9
- Condom standards
- Latex, non-latex, lambskin and vegan
- Condom considerations and jargon
- Measuring dick
- Matching dick size to condom size
- Search help
- You're not the first to get an STI
- Be proactive about your sexual health
- STI signs and symptoms
- STI symptom sorter
- HIV treatment
- HIV Drug Interactions
- HIV treatment centres
- PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis)
- PEP (post-exposure prophylaxis) or PEP SE (sexual exposure)
- DoxyPEP (Doxycycline)
- Porn4PrEP
- After a HIV positive diagnosis
- Telling others your HIV status
- Peer mentoring
- Living well with HIV
- Living with HIV magazines
- HIV stigma
- Fast-Track Cities London: tackling HIV stigma
- Looped In
- The Positive Effect
- Undetectable = untransmittable
- Bug chasing
- Living older with HIV
- HIV/ AIDS and COVID-19: Connections
- CIHRRC
- Sexually transmitted infections A-Z
- Gloves
Drugs Chapters
- DRUGS
- About drugs
- What is safer drug use?
- Drugs and the law
- Drugs, alcohol and chemsex support
- About alcohol
- About smoking
- About chemsex
- Safer chemsex
- SAFER PACK (FREE)
- More chemsex support
- Calling 999: ambulance call-outs, and the police
- London accident and emergency departments
- Greater London Services Map
- Drugs A-Z
Drugs Contents
- Safer Pack
- Greater London Services Map
- Play Safer
- Popular topics and icon codes
- Safer drug use, or harm reduction, and why it matters
- Drugs and the law
- Your rights on arrest
- Release
- Legal Aide App
- Y-Stop
- About smoking
- How nicotine works
- What’s in a cigarette
- Does smoking damage my health?
- Benefits of breaking the habit
- Quitting smoking
- Quit smoking support
- E cigarettes and vaping
- Read me first
- London drug, alcohol and chemsex support
- More drugs support
- Tweaker (US)
- Bluelight (US)
- Chemsex Toolkit 101
- Chemsex first aid
- EU Mainland and EAA
- NEPTUNE
- Help us make this website better
- Safer chemsex guide introduction
- Good to know
- Connection and consent
- Sexual health check-ups
- Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)
- Post Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP)
- Safer slamming
- Back loading
- Booty bumps (chems up the arse)
- Hepatitis C and douching
- About and using G
- Providing first aid in overdose situations
- Come downs
- Cuckooing
- Finding the right chemsex support
- Injecting other people
- Injecting people and the law
- Support and further information
- Calling 999: what may happen
- Calling 999: FRANK updates information
- Snapshot survey: calling 999 for ambulance and police call-outs
- Met Police (London) guidance on chemsex (2018)
- Review of GHB Deaths
- Better known drugs
- More drugs
- About this section
- A little bit about alcohol
- What it does
- The liver
- Units and limits
- How behaviour changes
- The gay scene and alcohol
- The hangover
- Safer drinking
- Alcohol dependence
- Why we take drugs
- Variables to consider
- The harms
- Reducing drug harms and risk
- Drugs and me
- The Drugs Wheel
- Global Drug Survey
- TripSit
- PsyCare UK
- International Network of People who Use Drugs (INPUD)
- Talking drugs
- Drug Science
- Chemsex
- Definitions of chemsex vary
- Methamphetamine (Crystal meth/ Tina)
- GHB and GBL
- Mephedrone (meow meow, M-cat)
- News, articles, and research
- Books and plays
- David Stuart
- Safer slamming (injecting)
- Tourniquets
- Safer chemsex in a box
- London accident and emergency departments
- Chemsex support outside London
- UK Drug Service Directories
More Chapters
More Contents
- Developing chemsex intervention services
- Aids Action Europe
- Exploring the experiences and visions of London’s LGBT+ organisations
- Developing a coordinated response to chemsex across health, justice and social care settings: expert consensus statement
- A blueprint for the future: sexual and reproductive health and HIV services in England
- London Chemsex Conference
- Chemsex Support by London Borough (FOI)
- Two years on: a progress review of ‘From harm to hope': A 10-year drugs plan to cut crime and save lives’
- Sexual health: How councils are driving innovation through partnership working
- Breaking point: Securing the future of sexual health services
- Hepatitis C in England
- Reducing Drug Deaths in London
- Chemsex Today: Around the world
- Health and Social Care and LGBT Communities
- National representative data on the health of lesbian, gay and bisexual adults in England published for the first time
- HMICFRS MPS Report 2023
- The problematic chemsex journey: a resource for prevention and harm reduction
- Survey findings to better understand mainstream service chemsex support provision in Greater London
- Hate crime laws
- From harm to hope: a 10 year drugs plan to cut crime and save lives
- Pre-training survey
- Review of drugs
- Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities: The Report
- HIV Commission
- An assessment of the harms of GHB
- Review of GHB Deaths (2011-15)
- European Chemsex Forum
- European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA)
- Review of Drugs
- Hidden Figures 2020
- Substance misuse services for men who have sex with men involved in chemsex
- Chemsex: Understanding risk behaviours
- About
- Research and studies
- All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) Inquiry HIV and COVID 19
- LGBTQ* UK COVID-19 Lockdown 18-35 Experiences
- Preventing suicide Research
- ILGA Europe’s Annual Review 2020
- LGBT in Britain 2018
- State of the Nation: Sexually Transmitted Infections in England
- Gay men’s chemsex survival stories
- The Missing Link: HIV and mental health
- A long way to go for LGBTI equality
- Drugs and Alcohol Today: Chemsex Edition
- How British moral attitudes have changed in the last 30 years
- Hot Topics, Navigation, and COVID-19
- Drug-related deaths in England: local authorities and how they are responding
- Chemsex: support for LGBT families and friends
- About more
- Global State of Harm Reduction
- LGBT+ sex and lifestyles survey
- London Assembly: Supporting mental health for all
- Culture for All Londoners
- LGBT Action Plan 2018
- National LGBT survey 2017
- Future of HIV services in England
- Human Rights Campaign (US)
- Hate crime England and Wales, 2015-2016
- Drug Strategy 2017
- Hate crime report | GALOP
- Drug misuse 2013-14
- Sigma Research
- Out of your mind
- Neptune
- Part of the Picture
- Mapping chemsex services in Greater London
- Public Health England action plan 2015-16
- National LGB&T Partnership
- Inequality: the IFS Deaton Review
