Even though someone was about twenty times as likely to die walking on their way to attend this talk, they demanded action on this KILLER DRUG.
John Stupid drew the audiences' attention to one of an endless series of articles about GHB in the gay media, and asked why the gay media was covering this up.
Gay Sauna Deaths: How Many More Will Die? screamed one headline.
Though the answer has proved to be "NOT MANY".
Articles about this "drug epidemic" are usually written by gay men who know bum all about drugs or the club scene.
Asked why the mainstream media is also so complicit in covering this up, no-one pointed out they always do cover gay drug use effusively - in a similarly hysterical fashion.
"We just sound like a gay version of the Daily Mail when we repeat this hysterical nonsense, don't we?"
A spokesbot from Antidote said; "If we pretend this is a bigger problem than it is, can we have even more funding, please?"
Time to stop the madness!
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ReplyDeleteBums = dEath!
ReplyDeletewhat I wanna know is - if GHB is so much fun then why aren't straights doing it?
ReplyDeleteTake my word for it, as a straight man, GHB is used a lot on the fetish and swinging scenes. Deaths are much less frequent, either because those scenes involve fewer people in London than the gay scene or people are more careful. I've seen fuckups at parties a few times though...
Deletehmmm - but it's not just deaths via GHB - it's unsafe sex fueled by club drugs including GHB. HIV infections were at their highest rate EVER in 2012. The overwhelming majority were among gay men. What's going on w/gay men, drugs and unsafe sex? Of course drugs aren't the common factor in all transmission but certainly the STD clinics and prevention specialists are seeing a link between the club drug culture and the spread of HIV. It's complex yes, but surely - if we care about the 'gay community' (which I'm old enough to still value) - then surely we should be talking about this, debating it and seeing how we can best address it. No?
ReplyDelete"Just say no... to drugs hysteria" William Burroughs.
DeleteIsn't the worrying link with drugs like this more to do with the loss of inhibition and so on and therefore the link to a rise in unsafe sex and erm that??
ReplyDeleteI sometimes take a benzo analog for anxiety and that has a similar effect on inhibition... but then so does alcohol obvs, so erm yeah...
I know G is meant to make you randy, but in my experience it just makes people pass out...
DeleteMost of these drugs, benzos and analogs are similar; but in stronger doses.
DeleteI don't think they make you randy as such, but they lower inhibition - they lower anxiety, and therefore you don't care as much about anything. You're more likely to go with the flow, as it were - more suggestive to unsafe sex, even if you would be adamantly against it sober.
Yes, in people who take too much or who haven't built a tolerance to them, they can knock you out.
These are the problems with drugs like this, I think.
I'm against drugs hysteria, though; don't get me wrong.
And I think people should be free to take whatever the fuck they want.
Maybe education and more honest one at that, is the more sensible approach.
ie. take these drugs to feel good and shit, by all means, but take precaution prior to make sure you're aware of the loss of inhibition (good in many cases when going out, obviously) and how that may have very negative consequences sexually, later on.
Preparation and shit. and stuff.